During 20 years as one of the world's best loved rock bands Queen played a total of 704 concerts throughout the world. Their earliest documented concerts were at colleges in the Home Counties in 1970; their final show was at Knebworth Park on August 9th 1986. And then there was the Freddie Mercury Memorial Concert at Wembley Stadium. Includes set lists of virtually every show. The development of Queen's live career traced over 15 years as a touring band. Queen's BBC sessions. Queen memorabilia including tickets, programmes and passes. Set lists including a complete list of cover versions adopted by Queen and a full live bootleg listing. What Queen did and didn't play live and why...A complete discography of live singles, LPs, CDs, books and rare live sleeves.
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Greg Brooks has been a Queen collector for over 25 years. A renowned expert on the band, he has contributed articles on the band to Record Collector magazine.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Phiz
Format:Paperback
This is a great little book and contains everything you could possibly need to know about Queen Live. For a small format there is also some great pictures of the band over the years, many of which I had never seen before.
There are song lists for nearly every gig Queen ever played, interspersed with trivia about the band, venues and even bootleg recordings. It gives a very clear impresion of the evolution of Queen's live Performances. At the back there is a break-down of which songs were played ( and which ones were never played) and all the various cover versions Queen employed over the years, all very clearly laid out.
One thing though, If like me, you prefer early Queen, it can be a little fustrating reading about the great early gigs knowing that there hasn't really been anything officially released on cd to support the enthusiastic comments. A decent live album featuring songs such as 'White Queen', 'Liar' and 'Stone Cold Crazy' would be most welcome.
Indispensable to any Queen Fan
There are song lists for nearly every gig Queen ever played, interspersed with trivia about the band, venues and even bootleg recordings. It gives a very clear impresion of the evolution of Queen's live Performances. At the back there is a break-down of which songs were played ( and which ones were never played) and all the various cover versions Queen employed over the years, all very clearly laid out.
One thing though, If like me, you prefer early Queen, it can be a little fustrating reading about the great early gigs knowing that there hasn't really been anything officially released on cd to support the enthusiastic comments. A decent live album featuring songs such as 'White Queen', 'Liar' and 'Stone Cold Crazy' would be most welcome.
Indispensable to any Queen Fan
By galashiels
Format:Paperback
i have not read this book,but i must point out.
teardrop explodes did play edinburgh.1 night
heart played 1 night also .(a 2 night concert).
get your facts right before slagging off the book.
i was there teardrop explodes night.
teardrop explodes did play edinburgh.1 night
heart played 1 night also .(a 2 night concert).
get your facts right before slagging off the book.
i was there teardrop explodes night.
Format:Paperback
Queen are my favourite band, but this book is absolutely brilliant, it has every single concert, every single set list and even loads of pictures and facts, this is the best Queen book I own
Michael Lambert, 14 years
Michael Lambert, 14 years
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Although I found this book to be a wholly enjoyable read I should point out that there are certain inaccuracy’s within in it. For instance Greg Brooks states that the support for the concert at Edinburgh Ingliston in 1982 was “Teardrop Explodes” – it wasn’t. Instead it was Canadian group “Heart”. This is typical of the mistakes, of which there are very few considering the amount of concerts that Queen did over the years. Also, although he does list all the concerts and tours (mistakes included) he doesn’t give a complete run down setlist wise as, by his own admission, most of the information is based on bootlegs he has heard and as far as I know not all Queen shows were recorded. What he does so is gig a description of some of the shows and what songs were particularly good live. All in all though it is like I said a wholly enjoyable read and if I were to mark it out of 100 I would give Greg 90 just for trying in the first place to tackle such a mammoth task.
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