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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Reaching Out (Live) | |||
| 2. Tie Your Mother Down (Live) | |||
| 3. I Want To Break Free (Live) | |||
| 4. Fat Bottomed Girls (Live) | |||
| 5. Wishing Well (Live) | |||
| 6. Another One Bites The Dust (Live) | |||
| 7. Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Live) | |||
| 8. Say It's Not True (Live) | |||
| 9. '39 (Live) | |||
| 10. Love Of My Life (Live) | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. These Are The Days Of Our Lives (Live) | |||
| 2. Radio Ga Ga (Live) | |||
| 3. Can't Get Enough (Live) | |||
| 4. A Kind Of Magic (Live) | |||
| 5. I Want It All (Live) | |||
| 6. Bohemian Rhapsody (Live) | |||
| 7. The Show Must Go On (Live) | |||
| 8. All Right Now (Live) | |||
| 9. We Will Rock You (Live) | |||
| 10. We Are The Champions (Live At Sheffield) | |||
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Reaching Out, I Want To Break Free, Bohemian Rhapsody, Show Must Go On..
Product Description
QUEEN & PAUL RODGERS Return Of The Champions (2005 UK 2-CD album set featuring 27 live recordings capturing the magic of their May 2005 tour including Bad Company & Free classics such as All Right Now & Cant Get Enough alongside some of the most famous Queen songs including I Want To Break Free Crazy Little Thing Called Love Radio Ga Ga & Bohemian Rhapsody complete with 16-page booklet with photographs taken by fans throughout the tour!)
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
this is what was missing for Live 8! The band that stole the show at Live Aid prove on this CD that they still are in a league of their own when it comes to putting on a show. A show without Freddie - Paul Rodgers is a great choice giving his own interpretation on the Queen classics. Welcome too that its not just the Greatest hits catalogue - 30 years on from the classic Night at the Opera Album, five tracks from this album make the set list.
My only regret of this tour is that there was no John Deacon in the line up. Queen were always about the band members not the individuals and the Queen sound isnt 100% there without Deacon.
In truth though this isnt Queen, or if it is it's a new kind of Queen - its Rogders, Taylor and May putting on a rock spectacular - playing the Queen, Free and Bad Company catalogue. But they're brilliant at doing it! Rodgers works well with the band. What he lacks in stage presence compared to Freddie Mercury (impossible for anyone!) he more than makes up for by a superb vocal performance. As a live vocalist Rodgers is second to none.
The acid test with this live recording is that you dont have to be a Queen fan to enjoy this disc. The sheer power and engagement of the show will please most. Great to have Queen back on the scene - and music is a better place for this!
Lets just hope on the back of a successful tour - their first in 19 years - that we see some new orginal material. It's long over due. The London musical has milked the back catalogue and in recent years too many classic hits have been argyuably ruined by some suspect re-recordings for the singles chart.
Big thumbs up for the tour - now lets hope 2006 sees a new studio album!!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I got this as a present from my son. I probably would not have bought it myself. I had never heard of the Queen-Paul Rodgers collaboration, and I reserved judgement at first. Although I like Queen, I'm not a hardcore fan. I'm not that keen on live albums, and I'm wary of comeback collaborations.
However, this album is excellent. It is as good as any of the live Queen recordings I've heard, with the probable exception of the 1985 Live Aid performance.
During the set, Brian May gives Paul Rodgers a name-check as "our inspiration", which he evidently is. Rodgers makes no attempt to do a Freddie Mercury impression, though at the start of Bohemian Rhapsody he sounds uncannily close. May and Taylor are obviously gripped by Rodgers' commitment and enthusiasm, and it shows in their electrifying performance. They are helped by three excellent supporting musicians. The additional guitarist gives May extra freedom.
Freddie does make one vocal appearance, in the usual pre-recorded middle section of "Bo Rhap".
Paul Rodgers gets to perform two numbers each from his Free and Bad Co back catalogue.
This must have been a great night in Sheffield. The audience clearly enjoy themselves, and even give themselves well-deserved applause for their contribution to "Love of my life".
Has this album has given John Deacon second thoughts about his retirement?
I have only one complaint. Paul Rodgers is as old as me, so how come his voice has held out so well? It's even better now than it was in the 1970s.
Buy this, you won't be disappointed.
Thanks son.
However, this album is excellent. It is as good as any of the live Queen recordings I've heard, with the probable exception of the 1985 Live Aid performance.
During the set, Brian May gives Paul Rodgers a name-check as "our inspiration", which he evidently is. Rodgers makes no attempt to do a Freddie Mercury impression, though at the start of Bohemian Rhapsody he sounds uncannily close. May and Taylor are obviously gripped by Rodgers' commitment and enthusiasm, and it shows in their electrifying performance. They are helped by three excellent supporting musicians. The additional guitarist gives May extra freedom.
Freddie does make one vocal appearance, in the usual pre-recorded middle section of "Bo Rhap".
Paul Rodgers gets to perform two numbers each from his Free and Bad Co back catalogue.
This must have been a great night in Sheffield. The audience clearly enjoy themselves, and even give themselves well-deserved applause for their contribution to "Love of my life".
Has this album has given John Deacon second thoughts about his retirement?
I have only one complaint. Paul Rodgers is as old as me, so how come his voice has held out so well? It's even better now than it was in the 1970s.
Buy this, you won't be disappointed.
Thanks son.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I grew up with Queen and nobody ever came close to their live shows. This captures a group of dedicated fans reliving the bands glory days and Paul Rodgers does a great job being himself. I really like the addition of the Free / Bad Company songs to the show but it is just great to have Brian and Roger out there having a blast and you can feel it in the album. Can't wait to see them in the Meadowlands in October. I also have listened to the whole CD as it is out in the US - and it is shaking my car windows daily.
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The Champions are back
Queen at their best (or a good as they can be without Freddie & john Deacon) Paul Rodgers is a very good alternate to Freddie and includes some of the songs he is best known for. Read more
Published 4 days ago by Roblx
Surprised
Originally bought as gifts, it was suggested I listen and I was surprised two different sectors of AOR [Queen (or part of) and Rodgers] could amalgamate so well; perhaps because it... Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2010 by Tyrone Malcolm McDonald
Awesome
I was a Queen fan back in the 1970's up until around 1975/6. I drifted away from listening to them as they drifted away from rock towards the pop genre. Read more
Published on 11 July 2008 by Graham
Two Hours of pure live entertainment at it's best.
I was a little nervoius on knowing that Paul Rodgers was the main vocalist, singing Freddie Mercury songs. Read more
Published on 15 Jun 2008 by Derrick Page
Too safe...
I have been a fan of Queen since the age of ten (1976) and I still follow what Brian May and Roger Taylor get up to with some interest. Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2008 by D. J. Dubery
It's not blasphemous, it's bloody good!
Plenty have already commented on Paul being himself and not being Freddie. I would hope so too, what an insult it would be to try and imitate the great performer himself. Read more
Published on 14 July 2007 by Scole
The Queen is dead, long lived the Queen
I went to see this tour and was completely impressed with all parties involved. Paul Rogers sang magnificently and never made any attempt to be Freddie, Brian May played a blinder... Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2007 by Smitty Werbenjaegermanjensen (real name)
Queen Without Mercury???
Has anybody else noticed this in recent years, the fact that Queen have being in the news and on stage alot in recent years (maybe more times in recent years than back in the... Read more
Published on 19 Sep 2006 by Mr. Steven J. Turner
And now for something different...
I'm going to go against all of the slating this collaboration has had and tell you how great Queen & Paul Rodgers really are. Read more
Published on 11 Jun 2006 by Shazzeth
this aint queen.
great singing great music, but it just sounds like a very competent cover band. Queen without Freddie just doent work, about as convicing as the stones without jagger or the who... Read more
Published on 8 May 2006 by G,Oatman
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