City: Brussels, Belgium

Venue: Forest National

Date: June 17, 1986

Setlist:
One Vision, Tie Your Mother Down, 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, Mustapha (intro), 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 band still have that extra edge, as they're riding on the post-Live Aid energy early in the tour. Brian gives much more than usual to Tie Your Mother Down.

Freddie, after Under Pressure: "I think this is the hottest gig we've ever done so far, I tell you. It's so fucking hot!"

Right after the energetic impromptu, culminating with a killer drum solo, Freddie says, "Well done, Rog!" His drum solo at the end of Now I'm Here is a ripping one as well.

Freddie jokingly growls at himself in the second verse of Hello Mary Lou after forgetting the lyrics once again. He'd continue to have fun with this song on the tour.

Freddie sings the intro to Mustapha before Bohemian Rhapsody, which he would do a few times on the tour. He then gives one of his greatest ever vocal deliveries of the iconic song.

Brian May misses the first half of his solo in Hammer To Fall, and probably as a result of this he opts out of the jam in Crazy Little Thing Called Love. Otherwise he has a brilliant night at the office.

Freddie briefly forgets a line in Friends Will Be Friends, and a split second later he speak-sings it to make up for the lost time.

This would be Queen's last show at the Forest National, a venue the band had visited at least twice on every European tour since 1978.

Pics 9 through 19 were taken by Helly Lemmy, and the last photo set was taken by Frederick Moulaert.

Recording length: 104 minutes (2 CD, incomplete)

Quality: B

Source: Audience

Lineage: AUD > ? > Cassette (x) > CDR (x) > WAV (GoldWave speed correction) > FLAC Level 8

Track listing:
One Vision, Tie Your Mother Down, 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, Is This The World We Created? [cut], (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care, Hello Mary Lou, Tutti Frutti, Mustapha (intro), Bohemian Rhapsody, Hammer To Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Radio Ga Ga, We Will Rock You [cut], Friends Will Be Friends, We Are The Champions [cut]

This tape is average quality.

Recording length: 104 minutes (2 CD, incomplete)

Quality: A-

Source: Audience

Lineage: AUD > Sanyo TRC-2300 > Master Cassette

Track listing:
One Vision, Tie Your Mother Down, 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, Is This The World We Created?, (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care, Hello Mary Lou, Tutti Frutti, Mustapha (intro), Bohemian Rhapsody, Hammer To Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Radio Ga Ga, We Will Rock You [cut], Friends Will Be Friends, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen

This second audience source is a great recording.

Recording length: 2 CDR

Quality: A-

Source: Audience

Lineage: "Brussels Magic" (Uxbridge)

Track listing:
One Vision, Tie Your Mother Down, 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, Mustapha (intro), Bohemian Rhapsody, Hammer To Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Radio Ga Ga, We Will Rock You [cut], Friends Will Be Friends, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen

Uxbridge bootlegged the second source within weeks of it emerging.

Recording length: 2 CDR

Quality: A-

Source: Audience

Lineage: "Brussels Magic"

Track listing:
One Vision, Tie Your Mother Down, 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, Mustapha (intro), Bohemian Rhapsody, Hammer To Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Radio Ga Ga, We Will Rock You [cut], Friends Will Be Friends, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen

An unknown bootleg label released this recording as well, even copying the artwork design and the title from Uxbridge.

Recording length: 103 minutes (2 CD, complete)

Quality: A

Source: Audience

Lineage: AUD > Master tape (SONY D6C) > CDR (0) > WAV (GoldWave speed correction) > FLAC

Track listing:
One Vision, Tie Your Mother Down, 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, Mustapha (intro), Bohemian Rhapsody, Hammer To Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Radio Ga Ga, We Will Rock You [cut], Friends Will Be Friends, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen

This is a third audience source from Brussels, the best of the three. The quality is excellent throughout, although there are a few slightly distorted spots towards the end of the show.

Only a few seconds are missing for tape flips after I Want To Break Free and Bohemian Rhapsody, and between encores.

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