Songs played live before being recorded or issued

One of those listings:

SONGS PLAYED ON STAGE BEFORE BEING RECORDED:

Keep Yourself Alive
Doing All Right (though Smile had recorded it)
Great King Rat
Liar
Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll
Son & Daughter
Hangman
See What a Fool I've Been
Stone Cold Crazy
Tie Your Mother Down
You Take My Breath Away

PROBABLY:

The Night Comes Down
Jesus
Father to Son
White Queen
Ogre Battle

SONGS DONE LIVE BEFORE BEING RELEASED, BESIDES OF COUSE THE ONES IN THE LISTS ABOVE:

In The Lap Of The Gods
Bring Back That Leroy Brown
In The Lap Of The Gods... revisited
Now I'm Here
Sweet Lady
The Prophet's Song
Let Me Entertain You
If You Can't Beat Them
Dreamer's Ball
Save Me
Battle Theme
The Hero
Under Pressure (bit)
Action This Day
Staying Power
Back Chat

SONGS NEVER DONE LIVE IN FULL VERSION

Father to Son
The March of the Black Queen
Killer Queen
Bring Back That Leroy Brown
I'm in Love With My Car
You're My Best Friend
'39
Bohemian Rhapsody
You Take My Breath Away
The Millionaire Waltz
White Man
Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
My Melancholy Blues
Mustapha
Bicycle Race
Dead on Time
Fun It
Las Palabras de Amor
Machines
Gimme the Prize

SONGS NEVER PROVEN TO HAVE BEEN PLAYED LIVE AT ALL (by Queen, of course):

Procession
Some Day One Day
Loser in the End
Fairy Feller's Master Stroke
Nevermore
Funny How Love Is
Tenement Funster
Lily of the Valley
Dear Friends
Misfire
She Makes Me
Seaside Rendezvous
Good Company
God Save the Queen
Long Away
You and I
Drowse
All Dead
Fight from the Inside
Sleeping on the Sidewalk
Who Needs You
Jealousy
In Only Seven Days
Leaving Home Ain't Easy
More of that Jazz
Dancer
Cool Cat
Man on the Prowl
Keep Passing the Open Windows
One Year of Love
Pain is So Close to Pleasure
Don't Lose Your Head
Princes of the Universe

"Don't Lose Your Head"

Why is this in both "SONGS NEVER DONE LIVE IN FULL VERSION" and "SONGS NEVER PROVEN TO HAVE BEEN PLAYED LIVE AT ALL"??


Mustapha
My Melancholy Blues
Sleeping on the Sidewalk (only once)
You're My Best Friend

These HAVE been played in full (unless you're disqualifying them cos Brian can't play a hundred guitar parts at once??), though rarely in some cases (esp. Mustapha).


One more addition to "SONGS DONE LIVE BEFORE BEING RELEASED, BESIDES OF COUSE THE ONES IN THE LISTS ABOVE":

Crazy Little Thing Called Love (album wise....though I guess having been released as a single around the few times they performed it on the Crazy Tour disqualifies this I guess??)


Shows how much you don't listen to bootlegs at all, really.

Edit: nevermind!

Who wants to live forever, did that not come out as a single after the Magic tour?

It seems that Sleeping On The Sidewalk was played a couple of times.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]inu-liger wrote: [/QUOTENAME]"Don't Lose Your Head"

Why is this in both "SONGS NEVER DONE LIVE IN FULL VERSION" and "SONGS NEVER PROVEN TO HAVE BEEN PLAYED LIVE AT ALL"??[/QUOTE]

My mistake.

[QUOTE]Mustapha
My Melancholy Blues
Sleeping on the Sidewalk (only once)
You're My Best Friend

These HAVE been played in full (unless you're disqualifying them cos Brian can't play a hundred guitar parts at once??), though rarely in some cases (esp. Mustapha).[/QUOTE]

Mustapha: second verse is missing.

My Melancholy Blues: there's no recapitulation, it ends after the piano solo. So it's NOT a full version.

Sleeping on the Sidewalk: Got any proof?

Best Friend: The whole 'Whenever this world is cruel to me...' bit is missing. So it's NOT full.

[QUOTE]Crazy Little Thing Called Love (album wise....though I guess having been released as a single around the few times they performed it on the Crazy Tour disqualifies this I guess??[/QUOTE]

CLTCL had been issued as single before being played live. Same for Killer Queen, Flick of the Wrist and Bo Rhap.

[QUOTE]Shows how much you don't listen to bootlegs at all, really.[/QUOTE]

Show how much you can't even read at all, really.

That was helpful and interesting! Thanks, Sebastian!

Yes, and, if I may add, the live version of Save Me I like the most was played before the Game was released. So, it's really interesting.

Thanks for all the info.

Just a question, because I don't have the recording here at hand, I deleted it after listening to it a couple of times: don't they play the recapitulation of My Melancholy Blues in Paris 78, I think? Pittrek shared this one recently, I don't remember whether they played the whole thing or it ended with the piano solo.

Anyone?

Again, thanks for the info!!! An useful "Queen Guide". :-)

Ah, and about "Who Needs You", yeah...such a pitty they never played it live! It's such a great song. News of The World was such a great album. There's a 1978 concert in which after Freddie announces they'd do something "more accoustic" from the "News of the World" someone in the audience shouts asking for, I guess, "Who Needs You". That's what I heard, at least. :o) Freddie replies and says they were going to do that one later on. Hehehe.

By the way, I'd like to understand what Freddie says between the songs. Like, in the wonderful concert played in Leeds which was shared here recently, I think he says either before "Now I'm Here" or in the end of the first part of the song, just before the beginning of the Vocal Impro which served as a bridge to Dragon Attack, something like this: "As far as I'm concerned, I'm totally fucked". Again, if it sounds awkard, that's because I got it wrong. :-) I got the impression, though, that it was something like this, and it seemed he was refering to his voice. Hehehe.

I'd be very glad and thankful if someone bothered to sort that out. :-)))

Hi

Who wants to live forever was sang live at wembley, and release in Sept. 1986

I wonder what exactly was missing from the live version of Father To Son?

The coda, as far as I remember.

Sleeping On The Sidewalk was indeed played... But by Brian May on his Another World tour, not by Queen. ;) He also performed Sail Away Sweet Sister once or twice. But I assume this is a Queen-only list.

Depending on your concept of "Queen", I'm In Love With My Car was fully performed (including last verse) in 2005 and 2006. :P

I know Freddie Mercury sung Princes Of The Universe live on the video shoot for it. He always sings along to the songs in videos, he doesn't lip synch!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Raf wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Sleeping On The Sidewalk was indeed played... But by Brian May on his Another World tour, not by Queen. ;) He also performed Sail Away Sweet Sister once or twice. But I assume this is a Queen-only list.

Depending on your concept of "Queen", I'm In Love With My Car was fully performed (including last verse) in 2005 and 2006. :P[/QUOTE]

His concept of Queen is the "RIP Queen 1991" brand favoured by trolls everywhere.

Now coming to a dollar store near you.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Jake? wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I know Freddie Mercury sung Princes Of The Universe live on the video shoot for it. He always sings along to the songs in videos, he doesn't lip synch![/QUOTE]

Yes, but he won't count that as being live, as he's only talking about concerts.