Live at Wembley '86
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May 26, 1992 |
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| Label (s) | Parlophone / EMI ; Hollywood Records (USA) | |||
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28 |
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running time |
60:25 (CD 1), 50:18 (CD 2) |
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Live at Wembley '86 , the 1992's, the third live album of British rock group Queen . The double album contains the recording of Queen's performance on July 12, 1986 at London's Wembley Stadium .
An abridged video recording of this concert was released on VHS tape ( At Wembley ) as early as 1990 . The full recording Live at Wembley Stadium was released on DVD in 2003; The album was also re-released under the same title and with an adapted cover design.
Track list
CD 1:
- One Vision (Queen) - 5:50
- Tie Your Mother Down (May) - 3:52
- In the Lap of the Gods (Mercury) - 2:43
- Seven Seas of Rhye (Mercury) - 1:18
- Tear It Up (May) - 2:12
- A Kind of Magic (Taylor) - 8:41
- Under Pressure (Queen, Bowie) - 3:41
- Another One Bites the Dust (Deacon) - 4:53
- Who Wants to Live Forever (May) - 5:16
- I Want to Break Free (Deacon) - 3:33
- Impromptu (Queen) - 2:56
- Brighton Rock Solo (May) - 9:10
- Now I'm Here (May) - 6:20
CD 2:
- Love of My Life (Mercury) - 4:48
- Is This the World We Created ...? (Mercury, May) - 2:58
- (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care (Leiber, Stoller) - 1:36
- Hello Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart) (Pitney) - 1:50
- Tutti Frutti ( Penniman , LaBostrie ) - 2:53
- Gimme Some Lovin ' (S. Winwood, M. Winwood, Davis) - 0:55
- Bohemian Rhapsody (Mercury) - 5:50
- Hammer to Fall (May) - 5:56
- Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Mercury) - 6:05
- Big Spender (Coleman, Fields) - 1:06
- Radio Ga Ga (Taylor) - 5:57
- We Will Rock You (May) - 2:47
- Friends Will Be Friends (Mercury, Deacon) - 2:06
- We Are the Champions (Mercury) - 4:04
- God Save the Queen (Trad. Arrangement: May) - 1:27
Before Tear It Up , Queen played a short excerpt from Liar (Mercury). All times refer to the CD title including announcements and applause and not to the actual, usually shorter title lengths. Tutti Frutti's live recording was shortened (2:53 minutes); the 2003 edition of the album ( Live at Wembley Stadium ) contains the full version of the piece (3:24 minutes).
The producers of the album are Queen and it was recorded by Mack . The mix is from Brian Malouf.
Equipment
In addition to the instruments used by the musicians, the manufacturers are indicated:
- Piano: Steinway
- Electric guitar (Mercury in Crazy Little Thing Called Love ): Telecaster
- Bass guitar: Fender Precision
- Drums : Yamaha
- Basin : Zildjian
- Tambourine: Ludwig-Musser
- Electric guitar (May): Red Special , Telecaster in Crazy Little Thing Called Love
- acoustic guitar: Gibson , Ovation Pacemaker
- Synthesizer: Yamaha DX7 , Roland , E-MU Emulator II
- Electric guitar (Edney in Hammer to Fall ): Gordon Smith
The video
Gavin Taylor was the director of the video recording of the Queen's performance at Wembley.
VHS (1990)
An abridged video recording of the concert was released on VHS in 1990 under the title At Wembley . Not included are the following nine tracks: Tear It Up - Impromptu - Brighton Rock Solo - Now I'm Here - Love of My Life - (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care - Hello Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart) - Gimme Some Lovin ' - Big Spender .
DVD (2003)
The DVD Live at Wembley Stadium ( Parlophone ) released in June 2003 contains all pieces from the concert or album. This 2-DVD set also includes u. a .: Excerpts from the previous day's concert at Wembley Stadium, recorded on July 11, 1986; Interviews with Brian May, Roger Taylor, video director Gavin Taylor and Queens tour manager Gerry Stickles; a backstage documentation and sample excerpts. There is a multi-angle function for four pieces of the live recording. H. Queen's performance can be viewed during the tracks One Vision , Under Pressure , Now I'm Here and We Are the Champions from different camera perspectives that are focused on the individual band members.
In Germany, the DVD was awarded 4 × platinum for over 200,000 copies sold. This makes Live at Wembley '86 one of the best-selling video albums in Germany .
Chart positions and sales figures
album
The 1992 album Live at Wembley '86 reached the following positions in the charts :
- # 2 - France / Great Britain ( gold ) / Spain.
- # 6 - Austria (gold) / Switzerland (gold).
- # 9 - Netherlands.
- # 13 - Italy
- # 20 - Germany (gold).
- # 29 - Sweden.
- # 53 - USA (platinum).
- # 81 - Japan.
DVD
The top chart positions of the 2003 DVD Live at Wembley Stadium are as follows:
- # 1 - Australia / Germany (3 × platinum) / Great Britain (4 × platinum) / Italy / Netherlands / Austria (gold) / Portugal (11 × platinum) / Spain.
- # 2 - Greece / Ireland.
- # 3 - Norway / Sweden.
- # 4 - Denmark / France.
- #? - USA (5 × platinum).
Reception in the media
Vox (UK), 1992; by Shaun Phillips: “For those of you who've already bought Live Magic - a cut'n'paste of the highlights of the 1986 European tour - Live At Wembley is a waste of time. The recording isn't of an exceptional quality, there's virtually no editing, but more importantly all of the songs on Live Magic […] appear in virtually the same running order on this new release. Most of the extra tracks presented are unremarkable covers which detract rather than enhance the event. [...] The only song really worth the nostalgic revisit is 'Who Wants To Live Forever?', And only then for Mercury's tragically prophetic introduction. "
All Music Guide (USA), by Greg Prato: “The posthumously released, two-disc Live at Wembley proves once and for all that Queen was a superior live band, and like the Beatles , Stones , etc., had far too many hits to fit in a two-hour show. Recorded in their native England at the gigantic Wembley Stadium on the A Kind of Magic tour, the group was at their peak of popularity back home. […] Although most Queen fans prefer the unfairly criticized 1979 concert album Live Killers , Live at Wembley '86 does a good job of balancing the well-known, for the uninitiated, and the lesser-known, for the hardcore fan. "
Cover versions
Queen have not released a single cover version of a pop song on their studio albums ; only contains short, instrumental versions of God Save the Queen and The Wedding March as well as a quote from the Traditional I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside (in the Queen song Seven Seas of Rhye ) An excerpt from New York, New York was recorded for the film Highlander . On the other hand, cover versions were usually a fixed part of the set list for Queens live performances. The recording of the concert at Wembley Stadium contains five songs performed live, which were not written by the band themselves, although in some cases only excerpts from the original versions were played. In contrast to the other cover versions, Big Spender was often featured in Queen concerts as early as the 1970s.
- Little Richard's single Tutti Frutti brought him his commercial breakthrough in 1955. He wrote the song (under his maiden name Richard Penniman) with Dorothy La Bostrie .
- (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care is by the songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller . Elvis Presley released the song as a single in 1957; in 1961, Buddy Holly's interpretation of the piece appeared.
- Hello Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart) was written by Gene Pitney and released as a single by Ricky Nelson in 1961 .
- Gimme Some Lovin ' is a 1966 Spencer Davis Group hit single ; the authors of the song are Steve Winwood , Muff Winwood and Spencer Davis .
- Big Spender comes from the musical Sweet Charity . Cy Coleman composed the music , Dorothy Fields wrote the lyrics ; it premiered on Broadway in January 1966. Shirley Basey's version of the song was released as a single in 1967.
Trivia
A “prophetic” moment occurred on July 12, 1986 at Wembley Stadium when Freddie Mercury said to the audience: “There's been a lot of rumors lately about a certain band called Queen, (…) the rumors are that we're gonna split up, what do you think? "Spectator:" No! "Mercury:" (...) So forget those rumors, we're gonna stay together until we fucking will die, I'm sure. "After these words, some faintly reminiscent of a passage in Save Me , the band played the track Who Wants to Live Forever .
See also
Sources and Notes
- ↑ This is In the Lap of the Gods… Revisited , the last track on the studio album Sheer Heart Attack .
- ↑ a b everyhit.com - UK Top 40 Hit Database ; tsort.info .
- ↑ a b Live at Wembley '86. In: austriancharts.at. Archived from the original on February 29, 2008 ; Retrieved August 25, 2014 . ; IFPI Austria .
- ↑ hitparade.ch: Live at Wembley '86 ; hitparade.ch: Edelmetall 1993 .
- ^ A b Andrew Young: Queen International Album Chart Positions (USA, Japan, Netherlands).
- ^ Italiancharts.com: Live at Wembley '86 .
- ↑ a b charts surfer ; www.ifpi.de .
- ↑ swedishcharts.com: Live at Wembley '86 .
- ^ A b Andrew Young: Queen International Album Chart Positions ; RIAA .
- ↑ Shaun Phillips: Last Rights. Queen - Live at Wembley . In: Vox , July 1992, p. 60.
- ^ Greg Prato: Queen - Live at Wembley '86 (1992). Review. In: All Music Guide .
- ^ Quoted from www.ultimatequeen.co.uk: Live at Wembley 1986 / Live at Wembley Stadium . Translation: “There have been a lot of rumors recently about a certain band called Queen, (…) those rumors were that we were breaking up. What do you think? ”-“ So forget these rumors, we'll stay together until we die, I'm sure. ”
Web links
- Queen Picture Hall: Images of the covers of the album , the VHS and the DVD (English)
- Queen Concerts: Concertography - Directory of all concerts of the Magic Tour 1986 (English)
- Queen Concerts: Instruments on tour - details regarding the applied under this tour instruments (English)
- The Times 14 July 1986 (Queen Archives) - Concert review (English)
- Queen Live at Wembley Stadium in the Internet Movie Database (English)