Queen Rock Montreal
Occupation
- John Deacon: bass guitar
- Brian May: electric guitar, acoustic guitar, grand piano Save Me and Flash, in Flash Synthesizer, Backing Vocals.
- Freddie Mercury: lead vocals, grand piano, acoustic guitar in Crazy Little Thing Called Love, tambourine in Keep Yourself Alive.
- Roger Taylor: drums, timpani, gong in Bohemian Rhapsody, lead vocals in I'm in Love with My Car, backing vocals.
Queen rock Montreal is published in 2007, sixth live album by British rock group Queen and contains footage from the concerts on 24 and 25 November 1981 in Montreal, the second largest city in Canada. These appearances viewers before each 18,000 were for the movie Queen - We Will Rock You recorded, had its premiere in 1983.
Queens Concerts at the Montreal Forum were - more than a month after the end of the Latin American tours - have been recognized especially for the film version; before the band had already occurred three times in this hall. Queen rock Montreal documented Queens last two concerts in four-man line-up - no extra keyboardist, as in the following performances. For the first time the group was played by her recently released single Under Pressure, who just finished the top of the British charts at that time. The last time heard in the concert program were both the title Let Me Entertain You and I'm in Love with My Car and Roger Taylor's drums solo. Unlike a DVD album queen rock Montreal includes the previously unreleased live recordings of originating from the Flash Gordon soundtrack pieces Flash and The Hero, of which only the audio tracks, but no more film recordings are available. Queens cover version of Jailhouse Rock is placed in all publications of the concerts elsewhere than in the live performances, where the band played the song as part of the addition before We Will Rock You.
As a download single the label Parlophone published an abridged, 2:30 minutes long version of the title Keep Yourself Alive.
Title list
CD 1:
CD 2:
The Title Flash and The Hero are included exclusively on the album and not in the cinema and video versions.
Equipment
In addition to the instruments of the musicians, producers are given:
- Bass Guitar: Fender Precision, Music Man Stingray
- Electric Guitar: Red Special Fender Telecaster ( Crazy Little Thing Called Love in )
- Acoustic guitar: Ovation
- Concert grand piano: Steinway D
- Percussion and Timpani: Ludwig
- Gong: Paiste
Were recorded at the concerts of Mack and copenhagen McAllister. The original music producer is Mack. Published in 2007, the sound mix produced Justin Shirley -Smith, Kris Fredriksson and Joshua J. Macrae.
Concert film
- John Deacon
- Brian May
- Freddie Mercury
- Roger Taylor
Movie We Will Rock You
The director and producer Saul Swimmer took Queens concerts in Montreal in anamorphic 35mm film format, making this film was named one of Brian May to a total of only three live recordings of the band in the " movie " format. During the filming, there were tensions between the music group and Swimmer and later came the break between them. The one and a half hour film came in 1984 under the title Queen - We Will Rock You in the cinemas. Against the wishes of the band appeared a VHS release of the concert film. Later, another video and DVD versions were released. Brian May repeatedly criticized the publication policy Swimmers and expressed his dissatisfaction at the fact that Queen had no control over the film for legal reasons.
DVD " Queen rock Montreal and Live Aid "
In cooperation with the Eagle Rock label, the band acquired in 2006 the rights to this concert film. The images were digitally restored. A fundamental redesign of the film has not been possible because once the divestments in the cut footage was no longer available. The sound has been remixed from the original multitrack tapes for DTS Surround Sound and PCM Stereo. The single DVD queen rock Montreal contains, besides the concert recording new accompanying audio commentary by Brian May and Roger Taylor. The double DVD queen rock Montreal & Live Aid also includes the complete reproduction of famous Queens appearance at Live Aid charity concert on 13 July 1985 at London's Wembley Stadium. In addition, this includes selections from Queens samples for Live Aid (Hammer to Fall, Bohemian Rhapsody and Radio Ga Ga ) and a then run with the group interview. Queen played with her a little more than 20 -minute appearance following pieces:
As part of the Live Aid finale at Wembley Freddie Mercury sang, accompanied by Brian May on acoustic guitar, Queens song Is This the World We Created.
As a bonus on this DVD is also a native of the 1982 TV report about Queen from the U.S. TV series PM Magazine, in which the band members have their say. - The concert film disc will appear in December 2007 in the HD-DVD, and Blu -ray
Reviews in the media
Movie Queen - We Will Rock You
Neue Zürcher Zeitung ( Switzerland ), 1984: "For just as a few music directors understands Swimmer, capture, reproduce and ' highlight the musical qualities of a group such as these, appeal the audience the atmosphere of a rock concert. [ ... ] The film with tears, is entertaining, is rock musical entertainment par excellence. "
Filmdienst ( Germany ), 1984: " original compositions by the group members are connected to old rock and roll song to a narcissistic self-presentation of the successful band that equally takes pleasure in exotic bombastic and questionable costumes and decor. For fans of the music group is not uninteresting pleasure. "
Video Queen - We Will Rock You
All Music Guide (USA), by Greg Prato: " [ ... ] We Will Rock You is an excellent document of latter-day Queen in concert [ ... ] one of Queensland 's best in -concert home videos. "
DVD queen rock Montreal & Live Aid
Classic Rock ( UK ), 2007, by Paul Elliott: "As a live act Queen were pretty much unbeatable and here 's the proof. [ ... ] It's a brilliant performance, [ ... ]! The second disc Has the legendary Live Aid set did Queen confirmed as the masters of stadium rock. [ ... ] This really is an essential purchase. " (9/ 10)
Chart positions and sales figures
Queen rock Montreal reached in the charts following placements:
In the German album charts and DVD sales are taken into account.