'Days Of Our Lives' part 2

Flash Gordon, Barcelona, The Cross, Highlander, there are sections that should be mentioned IMHO.
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The cross and Barcelona were solo stuff, this is a queen documentary, the fact that they had “solo projects” were already brushed upon earlier.

The flash gordon soundtrack was shown at the start of part two.

I agree with the other stuff though.

Djdownsy wrote: Yeah, total lack of mention about Flash Gordon, Barcelona, The Cross, Highlander, there are sections that should be mentioned IMHO.

There were things about QUEEN that got glossed over that I'd much rather have seen covered over The Cross and Barcelona, projects that had nothing to do with the band...

It was excellent

Even though i had previous seen a colour clip of the making of tatdool it was interesting to see the extra footage of freddie and very sad too but he was a brave man and had lots of guts and determination

The very ending from Wembley with Fuck you was most amusing

B&R keep going with whatever you can in keeping Queen's legacy alive

Less interesting than the first part.
I had hoped for more focus on the Miracle album,although it is not easy to put such a wide history in 1 hour.

The wonderful Live aid footage followed in only 20min by Freddie's close up in colour during the TATDOOL-shoot was a quite difference to deal with.
The bad quality of the Sao Paulo footage was a real bummer, although you did see more of the audience.

Did Brian really say that he and Roger were mainly responsible for Made In Heaven? :O

There is an excellent David Richards radio interview on YouTube in 2 parts.

I guess its easy to find if you search for "David Richards Interview"

Good second part for me but not as good as the first part.

Highlights:

+ Hot Space sessions
+ Sun City elements
+ Roger showing his true anger about the press
+ Jim Beach about the issue with Freddie
+ Days of our Lives footage ( Of course not a highlight but it gives the absolute trued about the condition of Freddie
+ Compilation of the Made in Heaven stuff;  Though I had loved more to see from David Richards, Recording sheets, vocal outtakes from Freddie etc.

Dissapointments:

- Again the terrible condition of some footage. I don't know what has happened, but the footage of some parts on my old bootlegs on VHS looks sometimes better than the footage shown on this doc. I don't if they used the old transferred tapes again for this doc. But I had expect some better quality.
- So less new material from the 86 tour. Wembley etc. Come on they had parts of the Friday concert in there archives and also a lot of shots from Knebworth, Mannheim etc.
- NEW Interview footage from 1984, 1985 or 1986, 1989??
- NEW Backstage footage from IWIA, Scandal, Breakthrough, Miracle, IGSM ??

Hopefully the DVD will add more

Part 2 definitely felt much weaker than Part 1.  However you do have to look at these things in context and in the period covered in part 2 there was much more activity to cover.  It is simply not possible to cover this in any real depth within a 60 minute period and invevitably some things have gotta go.  This film was about Queen first and foremost so I think taking a tour of solo material was not really an option - I think it got the requisite mention and that was fine but the documentary is not aimed at Queen fans in particular so why use of 5-10 minutes on solo material?  However, Barcelona was worth some kind of mention perhaps though given the gravity that it has on the public conscious.  Have to say that the Hot Space period was covered very well - so well I was cringing in the couch more than an episode of Doctor Who - yes it was that bad!  On the whole though pleased with the 2 hours put together, don't think that Part 1 could have been bettered but I certainly would love to have had input into the second part.

Did I miss it, or did they really leave out the AKOM album completely - I don't think the album cover was even shown like all of the others were. COme to think of it I can't recall seeing the Innuendo cover either.  Definitely felt very rushed through that mid-late 80's period, which is obviously a reflection of the time limit & just far too much stuff to cover.  Roll on an extended DVD release!

they did show the innuendo cover very briefly

Queen Days of Our Lives Part 2 (698 mb)

http://www.demonoid.me/files/details/2649347/0014914945038/

Was that Mary doing Freddies make up? looked like her a little bit

The Innuendo cover was shown, AKOM and Flash wern't. The Flash video was shown at the beginning(bit's of it) and a few of the flash songs (I heard Ming's Theme?) but yeah AKOM was completely glossed over. I thought they might have said something about their film projects.

I didn't cry during the TATDOOL scenes, but that closing fist pump walking away from the camera got me but good.  It was truly the perfect ending.

There is a moment during the TATDOOL clips that I've seen before, though out of the fuller context seen in this doc.  It's one of the permanent snapshots I have of Fred in my mind.  He casts his eyes down for a moment and then looks back up and just for those few seconds seems so uncharacteristically unguarded and vulnerable.  It has just always felt remarkably candid and real, and though he was very ill he was also very beautiful in those moments, at least to me.

Some of the documentary annoyed me because it wasn't the way i remembered it, Paul Gambaccini's assertion that they were a spent force with one hit in four years before Live Aid is plainly wrong, the year before Live Aid they had three top ten hits and i think Hammer to fall got to no.11 plus they had just come off the back of their Works tour. They were still a huge band. It makes a good story... forgotten band steals the show but its not true.