Discs and Tracks

Disc 1
  1 - Flash - Queen, May
  2 - The Hero - Queen, May
  3 - We Will Rock You (Fast) - Queen, May
  4 - Action This Day - Queen, Taylor
  5 - Play the Game - Queen, Mercury
  6 - Staying Power - Queen, Mercury
  7 - Somebody to Love - Queen, Mercury, Freddie
  8 - Now I'm Here - Queen, May
  9 - Dragon Attack - Queen, May
  10 - Now I'm Here (Reprise) - Queen, May
  11 - Love of My Life - Queen, Mercury
  12 - Save Me - Queen, May
  13 - Back Chat - Queen, Deacon

Disc 2
  1 - Get Down, Make Love - Queen, Mercury
  2 - Guitar Solo - Queen, May
  3 - Under Pressure - Queen, Bowie, David
  4 - Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen, May
  5 - Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen, Mercury, Freddie
  6 - Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen, Mercury, Freddie
  7 - Tie Your Mother Down - Queen, May
  8 - Another One Bites the Dust - Queen, Deacon
  9 - Sheer Heart Attack - Queen, Taylor
  10 - We Will Rock You - Queen, May
  11 - We Are the Champions - Queen, Mercury
  12 - God Save the Queen - Queen, Traditional

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Embers at the bowl        Rating:

For most die-hard Queen fans this CD & DVD is a must have. Unfortunately for the rest, it's a take it or leave it proposition. First the sound quality is excellent. Same for the DVD visual. The band sounds great and enthusiastic. The set list is less than to be desired though. They were promoting one of their weakest albums "Hot Space" I must give credit though. The songs from that album sound much better live than their studio counterparts.
There are some great performances "Save me", Fat bottom girls", "Play the game" & "Under pressure"
Don't know why they keep insisting on adding yet another extended Brian May guitar solo? That part really gets boring fast.
Over all it's a good live CD & DVD, but for the causal Queen fan, I recommend either "Live killers" or "Rocks Montreal" Better song lists.

Queen pull a classic lost gem of a concert from the vaults        Rating:

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!

Sheer perfection!!! Thank you Roger and Brian for this.        Rating:

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!!!!

Queen el mejor grupo del mundo        Rating:

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

great        Rating:

It's a great CD, but make sure to pick up the DVD. One of the best ever.

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