Queen: Live At Wembley

• Cat.no: PLMPB 01161
• Cert: E
• Running time: 75 minutes
• Sides: 2 (CLV)
• Year: 1990
• Pressing: UK, 1997
• Chapters: 21 (10/11)
• Sound: Stereo
• Presented in Fullscreen
• Price: £24.99
• Extras : None
  

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  Director and producer:

  Gavin Taylor

  Featuring:

  Freddie Mercury (Lead Vocals)
  Brian May (Guitar and Vocals)
  John Deacon (Bass)
  Roger Taylor (Drums)

Queen Live At Wembley 86was filmed in July of that year, and markedtheir first ever Wembley Stadium dates on a UK tour that played to 400,000people, breaking all previous attendance records. 150,000 of those peoplemade up the entire Wembley audience over two nights alone.

At the time, the show used the largest lighting set-up ever assembled for alive show, with a 160-foot wide stage, filling one entire end of WembleyStadium. With the stage being the biggest ever there, supports had to be boredinto the concrete foundations of the stadium!

The set’s construction was filmed using 35mm time-lapse photography during theweek before the show, and some of this is featured over the instrumental firsttrack. During the concerts, cameras covered every single angle of the stadiumincluding aerial shots taken from a helicopter.

The 75-minute recording of their “Real Magic” tour covers 21 outstandingtracks, and the band can be seen to be enjoying themselves in each one.

Whether you chant along, arms swinging and clapping to Radio Ga Ga,or if you choose to remember days gone by when you spent a 1992 Valentine’sDay party, like everyone else, standing atop a kitchen sink at Universityshouting along to I Want To Break Free (whoops! gave that one awaythere), or if you just want to find out whether the last words sung by Freddieat the end of One Vision really are “Fried Chicken” (!),then this disc is for you.

Picture quality is good and sharp, and everything you’d expect from a liveconcert recording. Sound rocks big-time as you’d expect, and so overall there’splenty to shout about regarding this release.

For anyone wondering what certificate ‘E’ is, it stands for exempt, althoughlike a number of music releases on video, some bad language does creep in.In this one, it’s a case of ‘Spot the F-word’…

There are 21 chapters, one for each song, and the top-notch track listingis as follows :

Side One
1. Brighton Rock
2. One Vision
3. Tie Your Mother Down
4. In The Lap of the Gods
5. Seven Seas of Rhye
6. A Kind of Magic
7. Yeah Yeah Yeah
8. Under Pressure
9. Another One Bites the Dust
10. Who Wants To Live Forever

Side Two

11. I Want To Break Free
12. Is This The World We Created
13. Tutti Frutti
14. Bohemian Rhapsody
15. Hammer To Fall
16. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
17. Radio Ga Ga
18. We Will Rock You
19. Friends Will Be Friends
20. We Are The Champions
21. God Save The Queen

With The Freddie Mercury Tribute concert already released on laserdisc,and with Box Of Flix and Queen Live in Rio due to be releasedlater in the year, Pioneer is serving Queen fans very well indeed. It couldalmost be considered a kind of magic…

Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 1997.