City:	Nagoya, Japan
Venue:	Aichi Auditorium
Date:	May 13, 1985

Setlist:	Machines (tape), Tear It Up, Tie Your Mother Down, Under Pressure, Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, Impromptu, It's A Hard Life, Dragon Attack, Now I'm Here, Is This The World We Created?, Love Of My Life, guitar solo, Brighton Rock (ending), Another One Bites The Dust, Mustapha (intro), Hammer To Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Saturday Night's Allright For Fighting, Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free, Jailhouse Rock, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen
Freddie is in very good voice tonight, and delivers great versions of Somebody To Love and Liar. His vocal exchange with the audience tonight before Dragon Attack contains some beautiful melodies. Brian's playing in Now I'm Here is very adventurous tonight, at one point playing an Eddie Van Halen-like lick. He then has a poignant moment with the enthusiastic audience before Love Of My Life: "You know, the first time we came to Nagoya was a very long time ago, and a lot things have happened since then. And some years ago we had an album called A Night At The Opera, and on that album there was a song which we did with lots of choirs, and a big production and everything. And we'd like to do it for you now in a different way, and it goes like this." A flange effect is added to Brian's acoustic guitar during the instrumental break of the song on this tour, giving it a slightly different flavour. This version of Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting is the longest the band would ever play, clocking in at about four minutes. Brian plays a very funky Telecaster solo in Crazy Little Thing Called Love. The picture was taken by Dave Matkin.

Recording length:	109 minutes (2 CD, incomplete)
Quality:	B
Source:	Audience
Lineage:	AUD > ? > CDR (x)
Track listing:	Machines (tape), Tear It Up, Tie Your Mother Down, Under Pressure, Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, Impromptu, It's A Hard Life, Dragon Attack, Now I'm Here, Is This The World We Created?, Love Of My Life, guitar solo [cut], Brighton Rock (ending), Another One Bites The Dust, Mustapha (intro), Hammer To Fall [cut], Crazy Little Thing Called Love [cut], Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting, Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free, Jailhouse Rock, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions [cut]
This recording itself is pretty good quality, but there is a lot of tape hiss. It was also transferred a bit too hot, causing some distortion. Many songs are unnecessarily cut. The first cut in the guitar solo was for a tape flip about four minutes in, but an additional three minutes are missing towards the end.

Recording length:	115 minutes (2 CD, incomplete)
Quality:	B
Source:	Audience
Lineage:	AUD > ? > CDR (x)
Track listing:	Machines (tape), Tear It Up, Tie Your Mother Down, Under Pressure, Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, Impromptu, It's A Hard Life, Dragon Attack, Now I'm Here, Is This The World We Created?, Love Of My Life, guitar solo, Brighton Rock (ending), Another One Bites The Dust, Mustapha (intro), Hammer To Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting, Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free, Jailhouse Rock, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen [cut]
This version has less tape hiss, but a bit less bottom end in the EQ. The guitar solo is three minutes longer on this copy, and Hammer To Fall and Crazy Little Thing Called Love are complete.

Recording length:	115 minutes (2 CD, incomplete)
Quality:	A / B
Source:	Audience
Lineage:	"Definitive Nagoya 1985" (Wardour) silvers
Track listing:	Machines (tape), Tear It Up, Tie Your Mother Down, Under Pressure, Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, Impromptu, It's A Hard Life, Dragon Attack, Now I'm Here, Is This The World We Created?, Love Of My Life, guitar solo, Brighton Rock (ending), Another One Bites The Dust, Mustapha (intro), Hammer To Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting, Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free, Jailhouse Rock, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen [cut]
This 2018 bootleg release debuts a second audience source in excellent stereo sound. It was only recorded onto a 90 minute tape, so the older source is used for Radio Ga Ga to the end of the show (which is converted to fake stereo).

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