Queen - The DVD Collection: Live At Wembley Stadium (Two Disc Set)

A complete concert of one of the best bands live, Queen Live at Wembley Stadium is the record of one remarkable summer night in 1986. This really was history in the making: no-one, except possibly Freddie Mercury, could have guessed that the band would only ever play two more concerts in the UK and would never return to Wembley.

Director Gavin Taylor's omnipresent cameras, including stunning aerial views, also remind us of the glories of the now-defunct stadium and its signature towers, such a perfect venue for Queen's epic staging, with their massive video screen and dazzling light show.

The second night playing to a capacity crowd saw the band at the peak of their form, riding high on the popular success of their recent string of hits: "A Kind of Magic", "I Want to Break Free", "Radio Ga Ga" and "One Vision" all feature here alongside earlier favourites from "Seven Seas of Rhye" through "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "We Will Rock You" to "Another One Bites the Dust" and "Under Pressure". In short, a veritable greatest hits collection--all performed with larger-than-life gusto, boundless exuberance and impeccable musicianship. In a period when most new bands were content to mime along to weedy synthesised backing tracks, Queen were simply bigger, bolder and a whole lot more fun than anyone else. Freddie Mercury's extraordinary stage presence is likely to remain forever unsurpassed.

On the DVD: Queen Live at Wembley Stadium is a superb memento of this memorable night. Disc 1 contains the entire Saturday gig (almost two hours) remastered in vivid DTS 5.1 or PCM Stereo. The second disc collects both contemporary and brand-new material, including new interviews with Brian May and Roger Taylor. "A Beautiful Day" is a good documentary made at the time. More exciting is the wealth of unseen footage, both from the Friday night show and the band in rehearsal. There are "Queen Cam" views of each band member, and a photo gallery. Most poignant is a time-lapse short, "Wembley Towers", showing the philistine destruction of these national monuments. It's a fitting epitaph for this great live band. --Mark Walker

Track Listing:

• One Vision
  
• Tie Your Mother Down
  
• In the Lap of the Gods
  
• Seven Seas of Rhye
  
• Tear it Up
  
• A Kind of Magic
  
• Under Pressure
  
• Another Ones Bites the Dust
  
• Who Wants to Live Forever
  
• I Want to Break Free
  
• Impromptu
  
• Brighton Rock Solo
  
• Now I’m Here
  
• Love of My Life
  
• Is This the World We Created
  
• (You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care
  
• Hello Mary Lou
  
• Tutti Frutti
  
• Gimme Some Lovin’
  
• Bohemian Rhapsody
  
• Hammer to Fall
  
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love/8 Big Spender
  
• Radio Ga Ga
  
• We Will Rock You
  
• Friends Will Be Friends
  
• We are the Champions
  
• God Save the Queen

Disc One:

• Play concert (110 mins)
  
• Song select
  
• Audio options (DTS 5.1 Surround Sound and PCM Stereo)

  Disc Two:

  • Road To Wembley:
    Brian and Roger – 2003 interview (28 mins)
    Gavin Taylor (Concert Director) and Gerry Stickells (Tour Manager) – interview (19 mins)
    A Beautiful Day - Rudi Dolezal’s backstage documentary about the whole day including interviews and nostalgic footage (30 minutes)
    Tribute to Wembley Towers (5 mins) – tribute to the stadium, including timelapse demolition footage set to These are the Days…
    
  • Unseen Magic:
    Friday Concert medley (28 mins) – highlights package of the previous night’s show
    Rehearsals (10 mins)
    Picture Gallery (5 mins)
    
  • Queen Cams – 4 songs multi-angle:
    One Vision, Under Pressure, Now I’m Here, We are the Champions
    On these songs, it is possible to watch the performance of a specific member of the band eg: if you want to watch Freddie only, select the Freddie Cam.

For the first time this concert from the 1986 Magic Tour is presented in its entirety. Tracks include: 'One Vision', 'Seven Seas Of Rhye', 'A Kind Of Magic', 'I Want To Break Free', 'We Will Rock You', 'We Are The Champions' and many more.

Legendär live! Das war 1986 und dieses Konzert setzte alle bisher dagewesenen Gigs in den Schatten! Jedes Kommende mußte sich erstmal hier dran messen. Dieses furiose Stück Konzertgeschichte beweist einmal mehr die Entertainment Qualitäten und die Stimmgewalt von Derwisch FREDDIE MERCURY sowie das grandiose Zusammenspiel der Mega-Band. Genau hierfür wurde die DVD erfunden, um solche Momente bestmöglich zu konservieren und wiedererlebbar zu machen! Entgegen der auf 75-Minuten zurechtgeschnittenen Fassung der VHS Version ist nun das Mega-Event in seiner Gesamtlänge von 110 Minuten auf DVD in astreiner Sound- und Bildqualität erhältlich und noch zusätzlich um einige leckere Side-Kicks bereichert. So finden sich auf DVD 2 gleich eine ganze Reihe von Interviews; neben einem aktuellen 2003! mit Masterminds BRIAN und ROGER finden sich auch Kommentare des Tourmanagers und des Konzert-Directors. Außerdem gibt's noch die Dokumention über das legendäre Erlebnis mit diversen weiteren Interviews, Behind-The-Scenes-Footage, etc. und ein Tribute für das Stadion selbst inklusive der Demontage der beiden berühmten Stadion-Türme.