Tracklist:1. One Vision
2. Tie Your Mother Down
3. In the Lap of the Gods
4. Seven Seas of Rhye
5. Liar/Tear it Up
6. A Kind of Magic
7. Under Pressure
8. Another One Bites the Dust
9. Who Wants to Live Forever
10. I Want to Break Free
11. Impromptu
12. Brighton Rock (solo)
13. Now I'm Here
1. Love of my Life
2. Is This the World we Created...?
3. (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care
4. Hello Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart)
5. Tutti Frutti
6. Gimme Some Lovin'
7. Bohemian Rhapsody
8. Hammer to Fall
9. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
10. Big Spender
11. Radio Ga Ga
13. We Will Rock You
14. Friends Will Be Friends
15. We Are the Champions
16. God Save the Queen
Queen’s First Complete Concert – 8,6/10
So far we have seen two Queen live albums released, both featuring heavy edits, removal of speeches and atmosphere and the fact that they are compilations. The release of Live at Wembley ’86 after the death of one of the greatest vocalists ever Freddie Mercury features none of that. For the first time we have an official live release featuring a whole concert without edits or removals. And now we can finally give a good judgement on Queen’s live performance.
The concert was the concert before the last concert ever with Freddie Mercury. It’s from the Magic Tour, so we would have to count on some songs from that album. And we get them. “One Vision”, “A Kind of Magic”, “Who Wants to Live Forever”... they mix up terribly well with older songs like “Seven Seas of Rhye”, “Tie Your Mother Down” or “Another One Bites the Dust”. Queen is fun to listen to in live. Even though songs like “I Want to Break Free” or “Another One Bites the Dust” are just boring me on the studio record, they’ve got the atmosphere here. Freddie goes wild in his interactions with the crowd, thus making these otherwise quite boring songs come to life. There’s even some fooling around when they do a bunch of old rock ‘n roll covers such as “Tutti Frutti”, “(You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care” and “Big Spender”. The crowd just goes crazy with the big hits like “We Will Rock You”, “We Are the Champions” and “Hammer to Fall”. It’s just so mighty to hear. This is a full Queen concert, and we missed that on previous live releases. It’s got everything, from Freddie playing the crowd just after “A Kind of Magic” all the way to the infamous Brian May guitar solo during “Brighton Rock”.
There’s no fooling around here: this is Queen’s finest live release for now. More to come, and perhaps even better to come? The main advantage of this one over Live Magic and Live Killers is the full concert experience without edits or removals. Highly recommended for Queen lovers.
Highlights: “A Kind of Magic”, “Hammer to Fall” and “We Are the Champions”.
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