The benefit concert in memory of Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen, who died of AIDS in November 1991.
Director: David Mallet
No songs listed in the Soundtracks.
Really quite good, especially Extreme (I thought they were a Queen tribute band, but apparently they had their own career for a decade, this being about the middle), Roger Daltrey, George Michael, Elton John & Liza Minnelli. Very impressive that nearly everyone came out to sing along with Liza for the finale. (Didn't see la Taylor, not sure about Annie Lennox. Really didn't try to take roll.) No one performs like Freddie in a live setting, but the voices mentioned above matched their songs well.
Special features include a 10-year anniversary doc'y and rehearsal footage. (Bowie smokes while he sings, and while he listens to others. His killer was liver cancer.)
Per Wikipedia, here's the full concert lineup, with strike-throughs of what's not on the disc:
- Metallica – "Enter Sandman", "Sad but True", "Nothing Else Matters"
- Extreme – Queen Medley (Mustapha/Bohemian Rhapsody/Keep Yourself Alive/I Want to Break Free/Fat Bottomed Girls/Bicycle Race/Another One Bites the Dust/We Will Rock You/Stone Cold Crazy/Radio Ga Ga),
"Love of My Life", "More Than Words"(Gary Cherone & Nuno Bettencourt) - Def Leppard –
"Animal", "Let's Get Rocked","Now I'm Here" (with Brian May) - Bob Geldof – "Too Late God" (if I heard him correctly, a co-composition with Freddie; very Irish folk-y)
Spinal Tap – "The Majesty of Rock"U2 – "Until the End of the World" – played via satellite from Sacramento, California- Guns N' Roses – "Paradise City",
"Only Women Bleed","Knockin' on Heaven's Door" Mango Groove – "Special Star" – played via satellite from Johannesburg, South Africa- Elizabeth Taylor – AIDS Prevention Speech
- Freddie Mercury – compilation of various interactions with the audience
- Queen + Joe Elliott & Slash – "Tie Your Mother Down",
- Queen + Roger Daltrey & Tony Iommi –
"Heaven and Hell" (intro), "Pinball Wizard" (intro),"I Want It All" - Queen + Zucchero – "Las Palabras de Amor"
- Queen + Gary Cherone & Tony Iommi – "Hammer to Fall"
- Queen + James Hetfield & Tony Iommi – "Stone Cold Crazy"
- Queen + Robert Plant –
"Innuendo" (including parts of "Kashmir"), "Thank You" (intro),"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" - Brian May + Spike Edney – "Too Much Love Will Kill You"
- Queen + Paul Young – "Radio Ga Ga"
- Queen + Seal – "Who Wants to Live Forever"
- Queen + Lisa Stansfield – "I Want to Break Free"
- Queen + David Bowie & Annie Lennox – "Under Pressure"
- Queen + Ian Hunter, David Bowie, Mick Ronson, Joe Elliot & Phil Collen – "All the Young Dudes"
- Queen + David Bowie & Mick Ronson – "Heroes"
- David Bowie – "Lord's Prayer"
- Queen + George Michael – "'39"
- Queen + George Michael & Lisa Stansfield – "These Are the Days of Our Lives"
- Queen + George Michael – "Somebody to Love"
- Queen + Elton John & Axl Rose – "Bohemian Rhapsody" Using the same light show as The Magic Tour from 1986 for the opera section and vocals played from a tape using the original 1970's studio recording featuring Freddie Mercury.
- Queen + Elton John & Tony Iommi – "The Show Must Go On"
- Queen + Axl Rose – "We Will Rock You"
- Queen + Liza Minnelli supported by everyone else who performed at the concert – "We Are the Champions"
- Queen – "God Save the Queen" (taped outro)
Sorta regretting getting this on blu-ray (it was cheaper, fewer discs), since I have only 1 BD machine.
distr. BBC One, dir. Mallet; 8
