The Miracle Bonus EP revision!

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Press Release: Live At Wembley Stadium DVD - 25th Anniversary Edition

RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 5TH 2011

September 5th 2011 sees the DVD release of Queen Live at Wembley Stadium. A special 25th Anniversary edition DVD of Queens legendary 1986 concerts, the 2 disc set comes with previously unreleased footage and brand new bonus features.

Over one remarkable summer weekend, on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th July 1986, Queen performed two sell out shows at Wembley, concerts which have been widely acknowledged as two of the most incredible rock events ever staged.

Now, for the first time, both the Friday and Saturday night concerts can be seen in their entirety on the Anniversary edition DVD, highlighting that no two Queen shows were ever the same. The driving rain of the Friday night show presented its own challenges but failed to dampen the mood or the music, presenting Freddie Mercury with some perfect opportunities to amuse the crowd. The sun shone on Saturday, making it a magical summers evening, as the band showcased everything that made Queen brilliant live. 

The DVD footage has been restored for the Anniversary edition and the sound has also been remastered with a brand new stereo mix and 5.1 sound. 

Extras on the DVD include ‘The Magic Tour’, a short feature containing brand new interviews with Brian May and Roger Taylor filmed this year. They reflect back on what was to be their final tour with their familiar intelligence, honesty and brilliant wit and humour. They explain in depth how they would approach planning their concerts and they also reflect on the poignancy of the shows which were to become among the last few performances with Freddie.

Queen Live at Wembley Stadium is released on September 5th coinciding with what would have been Freddie Mercury’s 65th birthday. The final five studio albums that Queen released are also re-issued on the same day.

“The Wembley concerts in 1986 were the pinnacle for us” says Brian May. “We were at our height band-wise, and Freddie had developed this phenomenal way of dealing with stadium audiences. Being back home in London playing two sell-out nights was such a big, big occasion for us. None of us realised that this would be almost the last time we played together…”

Queen’s 1986 Magic Tour had been their most successful to date. Regenerated and reinvigorated by their triumph at Live Aid almost exactly a year earlier, the band were on a 26-date tour of the UK and Europe and after a month out of the country returned home to London to play two defining concerts at the ‘place of champions’, Wembley Stadium. 

These were to be Queen’s biggest stage, their biggest lighting rig, the biggest screen that not only Queen had performed with, but also that Wembley Stadium had ever seen. For director Gavin Taylor, filming it involved the unprecedented use of no less than 15 cameras and a helicopter to capture the aerial shots.

For Freddie it was the start of one very long party. Friends were flown in from New York and ferried from his London home to Wembley in special coaches. It was one of the proudest days of his life.

The Saturday show saw a previous wet day turn into one of the sunniest of the year. “It was a perfect day,” says director Taylor. And the Wembley roar went up as Brian, Roger, John and Freddie arrived on stage to the synthesised opening chords on One Vision. 

For the next 110 minutes Queen played what was undoubtedly one of their most potent concert performances. The two Wembley concerts, along with a hastily added final date at Stevenage’s Knebworth Park a month later, were among Queen's finest moments. 

“Wembley Stadium was such a special place,” says Roger. “Having played it as part of Live Aid and to come back and play it again was such a blast.”

It’s perhaps no surprise that Queen’s hit musical, We Will Rock You, sees the show’s heroes end up at Wembley Stadium, ‘the place of living rock’ for the storming finale where the roots of rock are rediscovered and the rebellious bohemians find their way to recreating the music of the Mighty Queen. 

Towards the end of Queen’s performance on the DVD Freddie Mercury addresses the audience: “There’ve been some rumours we’re splitting. They’re talking through their *****,” Freddie says. “We’ll be together forever.”

“And in a way,” says Brian, “I guess we were. We might not have been a touring band much longer, but we were together as a band right until the end.”

“I don’t think anyone expected the Magic tour to be the band’s last dates; things had gone so well and we were already planning the next one,” says Gerry Stickells, Queen’s tour manager. “There was no sense of anything coming to an end”.

But as things turned out, Queen only ever played 2 further UK concerts, in Manchester on July 16 and that final concert at Knebworth on August 9.

But if ever a reminder was needed of why Queen earned themselves the mantle of best stadium rock group in history, then you only have to turn to this DVD to see Queen live, uncut, and at their ferocious, majestic, best.

QUEEN LIVE AT WEMBLEY 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION CONTENT

DISC ONE

Live At Wembley Stadium Saturday 12-07-1986

1. One Vision

2. Tie Your Mother Down

3. In The Lap Of The Gods ... Revisited

4. Seven Seas Of Rhye

5. Tear It Up

6. A Kind Of Magic

7. Under Pressure

8. Another One Bites The Dust

9. Who Wants To Live Forever

10. I Want To Break Free

11. Impromptu

12. Brighton Rock Solo

13. Now I’m Here

14. Love Of My Life

15. Is This The World We Created

16. (You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care

17. Hello Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart)

18. Tutti Frutti

19. Gimme Some Lovin’ *

20. Bohemian Rhapsody

21. Hammer To Fall

22. Crazy Little Thing Called Love

23. Big Spender *

24. Radio Ga Ga

25. We Will Rock You

26. Friends Will Be Friends

27. We Are The Champions

28. God Save The Queen

* Saturday 12 July 1986 concert only

DISC TWO

Live At Wembley Stadium Friday 11-07-1986

Bonus Features:

• The Magic Tour - approx 12min feature containing new interview filmed with Brian and Roger in 2011.

• The Wembley Weekend - approx 25min feature where Brian and Roger describe what went into these legendary concerts filmed in 2003

• Rehearsal - Secretly filmed footage from the bands rehearsal for the Magic Tour.

Queen Live At Wembley available on Limited Deluxe 2DVD + 2CD (Digipak) / Standard 2DVD

Fuck me - Wembley again.

Anyone going to bother buying this?  Not I m'lud!

There obsessed with wembley  86 like it was the only venue they played at in 86 what a joke!!!
we will be waiting another 10 years for there 50th for any kind of anthology box set  or they would have nothing
to re-re-re-release for the 50th lol.  and a no i'll be giving this DVD a miss.   Yawn........

Like the Magic album, I'd be buying The Miracle in the 1 disc version, soley because they are completly free of those bonus tracks which were on the EMI versions.

I dont like Bonus Tracks

You crazy!

I love this forum. All this complaining :)

Yesterday I read something similar on a Who forum where they complained about the upcoming Quadrophenia box set. Some people stated that the Who fans are the ones who complain the most about their band.. well.. check out this forum I'd say :D

I am also not too happy about the new 2cd albums, but then again, if I were a casual fan, I would really appreciate them. I have similar 2cd albums by other artists which also just have single edits/versions and some b-sides and I love em. Although the packaging is a bit better in most cases.

Is it a missed opportunity to not included demos and out-takes on these new re-issues? Maybe. But then again, no-one of Queen Prod ever told us that they would include them on these releases, we did or at least expected that due to the 'deluxe' tag. I prefer to have them in one single place ie in a box, rather then having them scattered over 15 different releases.

rhyeking wrote: As I've said, numerous times, criticize until you're blue in the face, but don't expect it to help your cause in getting what you want.

And I'll repeat my position that the band should not be dictated to by the fans on any creative output, including the release of older demos and outtakes. You see it purely as business, supply and demand, and insist that Queen must be in it for the money as well, yet the sheer absence of any kind of anthology on which they could make money must point to a different reason. I don't know why they haven't released any such set (I'm guessing they lost interest in light of newer projects) and I would for love them to do so. Yet, it must be their choice. Why is respecting that choice so hard for people? It's not about accepting everything unconditionally, but understanding that the different releases serve different purposes. Some may succeed and some may fail, but it's not about serving the interests of the seasoned fans. We've come this far because we love the music. When did that stop being enough, that we issue the ultimatum "give us more or you suck"?
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In my opinion it should always be a two-way street.

As long as the band has the right to release whatever they want, we have the equal right to say out loud "this isn't what we want". That's not an ultimatum, that's a personal opinion, and the band is free to act on it if they choose.
It's still a two-way street, and the band has the opportunity to change their products if they want to.

It's also the basis of any business. They are the merchants, and we are a part of the customers. If they are not interested in catering for our needs, they will have to "settle" for the other 95% of their customer base. (There's a LOT more money to be made by selling another million copies of the GH album than there would be in selling 10,000 copies of the anthology!)

dysan wrote: You crazy!

were all crazy now !  :P 

They couldve played 5 shows at Wembley back in 1986
and have released em all in a huge boxset tomorrow. Queen loves
these shows because they are ready to release anytime and 
any day, if they would need the money or by demand by Universal.

its very simple: we all have been listening to Wembley 
for 25 years! and its time for something DIFFERENT 
and something DIFFERENT after that release etc etc

Thinking about it, I'd even have been happy for the HR remixes to the relevant bonus discs, just for the sake of completion. And that's saying something.

I agree. The deluxe CD should have been all the released stuff, singles, 12", B sides leaving future releases of individual box sets for the more serious fan.

After all - it's the casual fan who'd have bought the singles and would be aware of the b-sides. Who knows? Maybe they have only ever bought one Queen single and the flipside 'A Dozen Red Roses...' is the song they loved most and then they see this half remembered LP from the 80's is being reissued with extra tracks and they can finally get the song on cd and... oh it's not on there. Maybe a kid in 1989 loved the Scandal 12" mix and its inclusion would swing his purchase on an album he never got at the time?