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By Adam (California)
What can I say... One of the great performances in rock history. Freddie is stunning as always. The beginning of "Somebody to Love" gives me chills. Freddie wants to include his audience in the music, not just have their ear. I think opening the concert with "Flash" was genius. Sure there are other songs in the Queen library that would have been preferable over some of the songs chosen, but it didn't make this album any less great. Thoroughly enjoyable and highly recommended.
By Mr. Richard D. Coreno (Berea, Ohio USA)
The final date of the European leg of the Hot Space Tour was special in many ways. Queen performed in the vast MK Bowl (National Bowl) on June 5, 1982, in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, and was heavily engaged in a funk-based sound, which is heard throughout disc one of the two CD set.
While leading the fans on a singalong, Freddie Mercury says that he will teach everyone to sing like Aretha Franklin and ultimately "hires" the crowd to be members of the band. And Mercury could have sung one or two lines of every number and had allowed his new bandmates to take over, such was the energy being delivered from the audience and on stage.
Arguably the best live release in Queen's catalog, Mercury demonstrates why he was one of rock's greatest performers/vocalists and is particularly strong on Play the Game, Somebody to Love and Crazy Little Thing Called Love. His incredible performance art made such large venues seem like much smaller settings.
A sleeper is John Deacon's snappy Back Chat and one can truly visualize the incredible light show that accompanied the recorded segment of Bohemian Rhapsody. There is a DVD that also chronicles the concert.
In this case the dusty vault yielded the gold standard in live recordings from a band that truly helped define this incredible era of rock-n-roll.
By Terrence J. Reardon (Lake Worth (a west Palm Beach suburb), FL)
In November of 2004, Queen released its fourth live album Queen On Fire Live at the Bowl.
This live recording and its off-shoot DVD was recorded and filmed at The Milton Keynes Bowl outside London, England on June 5, 1982.
Not officially released on video or CD, Queen On Fire Live At The Bowl marked the first time a recording of this concert has been LEGITIMATELY available to own as a 70 or 80 minute edit had been available on the bootleg recording circuit.
Audio producers Justin Shirley-Smith and Kris Fredriksson returned to the original 24 track analog tapes recorded by 80s Queen co-producer Mack and Mick McKenna with The Rolling Stones Mobile Truck and created brand new regular stereo (for this CD and one of the two DVD mixes)) and DTS 5.1 surround sound mixes (found on the DVD).
We kick off as the band hits the stage with the entrance music of Flash before the band dives into a spirited version of The Hero. Next is a killer We Will Rock You (fast version) complete with Brian May popping a guitar string and the music was left alone. Next is Action This Daywith drummer Roger Taylor and Freddie Mercury duetting on this rocker and John Deacon adding some bass which was muted on the studio recording and Brian playing his Red Special backup as his Red Special had to get a new string and Morgan Fisher did a great synthesizer solo substituting for the saxophone solo. Then Freddie does a nice piano intro which goes into an excellent Play the Game. Next is another Hot Space track Staying Power which is transformed into a rocker with Deaky and May playing guitars plus Roger bashing live drums and Freddie being on fire here. Next is arguably this live set's best track Somebody To Love which buries its studio counterpart by a longshot. Next is Now I'm Here which is excellent with a Freddie/audience vocal duel before segueing into Dragon Attack which rocks although Brian blew yet another string on his Red Special guitar and had to use his Red Special back up for the finale solo and the reprise to Now I'm Here. Next is a nice version of Love of My Life with Brian playing an impromptu teaser of Las Palabras De Amor before starting the track. Save Me is next and is done with more power than the studio counterpart. Deaky's Back Chat ends the first CD as the funk track is turned into a full-on rocker with Roger playing the drums like a man possessed, Brian's guitar dominating, John playing his Music Man Stingray bass and Freddie singing his heart out.
The second CD begins with Get Down Make Love which is a great short version which then segues from its middle section into Brian's Guitar Solo which is amazing despite the fact his guitar cord came undone (you can see this on DVD unedited) and Brian finishes with some help from Roger's drumming. Roger does an uncredited 30 second Drum Solo at the end of the guitar solo track as a lead in to Under Pressure which is an excellent version of the track. Next is Fat Bottomed Girls which rocks and Freddie's voice was electronically fixed on the part where he says LOCALITY which his voice cracked on the original Milton Keynes BBC airing. We then have a rocking Crazy Little Thing Called Love which is great. Then we have Freddie play a nice piano solo leading into possibly the best live version of Bohemian Rhapsody ever. We then rock out with the set closing Tie Your Mother Down which rocks. The first encore of Another One Bites the Dust is a great spirited version. Sheer Heart Attack follows and is more aggresive than either the News of the World version or the Live Killers version. We then have the second encore of the traditional We Will Rock You with audience participating and a stellar We Are the Champions. We then have the band say farewell as God Save the Queen plays over the PA.
Despite the fact this album didn't chart upon its late 2004 release here in the States, this live album is a FANTASTIC snapshot of Queen reigning their natural habitat, the concert stage and is one of my favorite live albums EVER!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
By Linda (Long Island, NY USA)
This is excellent. This is real offical Queen stuff by Roger and Brian. To me that says it all. It has the best version of Play the Game I have ever seen. Somebody to Love is great too. The quality here is unbelievable. It would be awfully hard to be disappointed with this one in my opinion. This just may be Freddie Mercury's finest hour, well one of many. Long live Queen!!!!
By 552 (Lima Perú)
Compre este Cd y para que suena bien y la voz de mercury impecable yo recomiendo a los fanáticos de Queen que compren este disco doble es de coelcción
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