City: Leiden, Netherlands
Venue: Groenoordhallen
Date: June 11, 1986

Setlist:
One Vision, Tie Your Mother Down, football song, In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Tear It Up, A Kind Of Magic, Under Pressure, Another One Bites The Dust, Who Wants To Live Forever, I Want To Break Free, impromptu, guitar solo, Now I'm Here, Love Of My Life, Is This The World We Created?, (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care, Hello Mary Lou, Tutti Frutti, Bohemian Rhapsody, Hammer To Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Radio Ga Ga, We Will Rock You, Friends Will Be Friends, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen


                                                       
               

This is the first of ten Magic tour shows to be held indoors (with Brussels, Munich, Zürich, and Vienna being the other cities).

Before the show begins, the audience sing a Dutch football song.

After the second song, Freddie is dripping with energy, shouting, "How are you bunch of cocks?" The audience then begin to sing their football song again upon Freddie's request, and the band join in, much to the delight of everyone on hand. They would sing the football song a few more times tonight, and at the two Leiden concerts in the near future.

Freddie delivers what is undoubtedly his definitive live version of A Kind Of Magic tonight, while Brian adds some very tasty guitar lines in the extended end section. Then, after a lengthy and adventurous vocal exchange with the audience, Freddie simply says, "Beautiful."

After Under Pressure, he tells the jubilant crowd, "Without a doubt, you must be the best singers around, really." He goes on, "I don't say... oh, you want a beer, darlings?" He complies and hands it to someone in the front row. "Don't drop the fucking thing! Pass it around, you bugger. There's enough for everybody."

Roger wants to go into the breakdown of Another One Bites The Dust a bit too soon, but realizes that the jam is continuing onward. At the same time, Freddie insists, "Keep going!"

The impromptu sounds more like the 1985 versions tonight, and it would generally be played like this for the remainder of the tour. Naturally, since it is an improvisation, it will have its differences from night to night.

Brian has a bit of trouble with the chording towards the end of the first verse of Now I'm Here.

The audience sing along to Love Of My Life at an astounding volume, as per the Live Killers version they have all heard. An audience member even adds "Beautiful" after the first verse, just as Freddie did on the live album at that spot.

After he gets to the piano to start Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie makes the first of many chilling comments on this tour about his health (the benefits of hindsight make it seem so, anyway): "This is what happens when you get too old. Your fucking energy runs out half way through the set!"

Freddie, before Crazy Little Thing Called Love: "You know what this guitar means, right? It can only mean one song because it's all I know on this damn guitar. But... let's try and do it."

Friends Will Be Friends is played for the first time at this show, and it is placed between We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions, something which surely surprises people who have seen Queen on previous tours. For these two nights in Leiden (contrary to the well-known Wembley and Budapest versions) the band perform the complete song. Freddie struggles a bit on the final "Friends Will Be Friends" of each chorus, as he has pushed his voice to its limit all evening. The band have trouble figuring out how to end the song, resulting in plenty of choruses before they finally lead into We Are The Champions.

Pics 6 through 9 were taken by Maurice Vreven, pics 14 through 22 were taken by Tim de Scally, and pic 46 was snapped by David van Dijk. The b/w shots are from an amateur photographer named "Ruud." The rest of the first set were taken by Arne van der Zande; prints of his fine work are available at roeldijkstra.nl.

Pro pics can be seen at http://www.spaarnestadphoto.nl (thanks to Raf Foubert for the link).


Recording length: 104 minutes (2 CD, incomplete)
Quality: B+
Source: Audience
Lineage: AUD > ? > CDR (x)
Track listing:
One Vision, football song, In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Tear It Up, A Kind Of Magic, Under Pressure, Another One Bites The Dust, Who Wants To Live Forever, I Want To Break Free, impromptu, guitar solo, Now I'm Here, Love Of My Life, Is This The World We Created?, (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care, Hello Mary Lou, Tutti Frutti, Bohemian Rhapsody, Hammer To Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Radio Ga Ga, We Will Rock You, Friends Will Be Friends, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen


The lively audience sometimes drowns out the band, but this is otherwise a pretty well-balanced recording. Tie Your Mother Down is missing.


Recording length: 109 minutes (complete)
Quality: B+
Source: Audience
Lineage: AUD > ? > CDR (x)
Track listing:
One Vision, Tie Your Mother Down, football song, In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Tear It Up, A Kind Of Magic, Under Pressure, Another One Bites The Dust, Who Wants To Live Forever, I Want To Break Free, impromptu, guitar solo, Now I'm Here, Love Of My Life, Is This The World We Created?, (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care, Hello Mary Lou, Tutti Frutti, Bohemian Rhapsody, Hammer To Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Radio Ga Ga, We Will Rock You, Friends Will Be Friends, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen


This second source was taped closer to the stage, and it's complete.


Recording length: 106 minutes (2 CD, incomplete)
Quality: B
Source: Audience
Lineage: AUD > Sony Walkman (w/ stereo mic) > Master Cassette > Reel To Reel Tape > Mini Disc (w/ EQ) > WAV (re-tracked in Nero) > CDR (0) > WAV > FLAC level 8
Track listing:
One Vision, Tie Your Mother Down, football song, In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Tear It Up, A Kind Of Magic, Under Pressure, Another One Bites The Dust, Who Wants To Live Forever, I Want To Break Free, impromptu, guitar solo, Now I'm Here, Love Of My Life, Is This The World We Created?, (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care, Hello Mary Lou, Tutti Frutti, Bohemian Rhapsody, Hammer To Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Radio Ga Ga, We Will Rock You, Friends Will Be Friends, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen


This third source was taped by the person who taped the better-sounding Leiden '84 recording, but this one unfortunately did not turn out nearly as well.


Recording length: 111 minutes (2 CD, incomplete)
Quality: B+
Source: Audience
Lineage: AUD > ? > WAV > FLAC level 8
Track listing:
INXS: Same Direction [cut]

Queen: One Vision, Tie Your Mother Down, football song, In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Tear It Up, A Kind Of Magic, Under Pressure, Another One Bites The Dust [cut], Who Wants To Live Forever, I Want To Break Free, impromptu, guitar solo, Now I'm Here [cut], Love Of My Life, Is This The World We Created?, (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care, Hello Mary Lou, Tutti Frutti, Bohemian Rhapsody, Hammer To Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Radio Ga Ga, We Will Rock You, Friends Will Be Friends, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen


This fourth audience source taped near the stage is pretty clear-sounding with minimal tape hiss, but is a bit thin sounding. The two cuts are very brief ones for tape flips.

The first couple minutes of the INXS opening set were taped as well (not included in the running time).


Recording length: 88 minutes (incomplete)
Quality: B
Source: Audience
Lineage: AUD > Cassette (x) > WAV > FLAC level 8
Track listing:
One Vision, Tie Your Mother Down, football song, In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Tear It Up, A Kind Of Magic, Under Pressure, Another One Bites The Dust, Who Wants To Live Forever, I Want To Break Free, impromptu [cut], guitar solo, Now I'm Here, Love Of My Life [cut], Is This The World We Created?, (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care, Hello Mary Lou, Tutti Frutti, Bohemian Rhapsody, Hammer To Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love


The right channel cuts out at times on this fifth source. The encores are missing.


Recording length: 90 minutes (incomplete)
Quality: B
Source: Audience
Lineage: AUD > 90 MIN Chrome Cassettes > SAFETY COPY > MAC Sound Studio > FLAC
Track listing:
One Vision, Tie Your Mother Down, football song, In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Tear It Up, A Kind Of Magic, Under Pressure, Another One Bites The Dust, Who Wants To Live Forever, I Want To Break Free, impromptu [cut], guitar solo, Now I'm Here, (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care, Hello Mary Lou, Tutti Frutti, Bohemian Rhapsody, Hammer To Fall, We Will Rock You, Friends Will Be Friends, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen


Source 6 is missing a few songs.




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