One of the world's biggest bands return to the scene of their Live Aid (1985) triumph a year earlier to play all their greatest hits in front of a packed Wembley Stadium.
Director: Gavin Taylor
Stars: Freddie Mercury, John Deacon, Brian May, Roger Taylor.
28 songs in the Soundtracks.
The concert disc is 1h 51min with no extras. Disc 2 27.5+28.3+3. No idea where the 5hr comes from.
FM has a radio mic (not so in Rio), but Red Special (BM's guitar) is cabled. JD is singing into a mic?
The crowd roared for Magic, from their '86 album.
EMI Films & more, dir. Taylor; 9
1h 30min | Documentary , Music | 1 January 1987 (Hungary)
On 27th July 1986, British stadium rock band Queen broke new ground by playing for the first time in Hungary, a country which was still under a communist dictatorship behind the Iron Curtain.
Director: János Zsombolyai
Stars: John Deacon, Brian May, Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor.
No songs in the Soundtracks. I didn't check song for song, but this is the same tour, in fact I think they said it was the last stop on the European tour. Wikipedia page refutes this, with 5 more performances: Budapest was July 27 and the final one was Aug 9 back in England. The page also lists all the setlists for the various gigs.
This concert is highly edited, with no onstage transitions shown, and I don't remember FM leading the crowd in vocalizing. If the Wp setlists are accurate, omitted from the dvd menu are Another One Bites the Dust, Impromptu, You're So Square (Baby I Don't Care), Hello Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart).
The Hungarian crowd is much quieter, but maybe that's the sound engineering, not the crowd. Or maybe it was fewer people. The setup footage made it look pretty big.
The massive light rigs are more evident here, perhaps because Queen were onstage after dark, having been preceded by 4+h of other bands, only mentioned in the featurette.
We get some sight-seeing footage, and local interviews cut into the concert. So it's amazing that this is 20 min shorter.
Watching all this makes me want more: the songs they didn't play.
Queen Films Ltd & more, dir. Zsombolyai; 9-
