Best shows of each tour?

I am new so I am not too familiar with the unofficial concerts apart from a few I have listened on gregsynth's channel :), so can someone put up a list of the best concerts of each tour? Thanks :)

Some quick recommendations for each tour leg/year:

1973

* Golders Green
* Manchester

1974 (Queen II)

* Rainbow (March)
* Providence
* New Orleans
* Portland

1974 (Sheer Heart Attack)

* Liverpool (Quality is bad - but the performances are top notch)
* Bradford
* Rainbow
* Cologne

1975 (Sheer Heart Attack)

* Milwaukee
* Okayama
* Kakegawa
* Tokyo (5/1)

1975 (Opera)

* Dundee
* Manchester

1976 (Opera)

* Boston
* New York
* Milwaukee
* Tokyo (3/31)
* Tokyo (4/1)

1976 (Summer)

* Edinburgh (Quality is poor - but it's a fantastic show)

1977 (Races)

* College Park
* New York
* Inglewood
* Stockholm
* Gothenburg
* Copenhagen
* Rotterdam
* Bristol
* Glasgow

1977 (NOTW)

* Philadelphia
* New York (either night)
* Houston

1978 (NOTW)

* Stockholm
* Copenhagen
* Berlin
* The UK recordings aren't good quality (although 5/13 is OK), but great shows overall

1978 (Jazz)

* New York (either night)
* Philadelphia
* Richfield
* Montreal (Nice quality)
* Chicago (Great quality)
* Vancouver (Great quality)
* Oakland (one of the best shows on the tour)

1979 (Jazz/Live Killers)

* Cologne
* Frankfurt
* Zurich
* Barcelona (2nd night)
* Paris (Freddie sounds worn out - but the musicianship is amazing)
* Osaka (either night)
* Sapporo

Saarbrucken 1979 is also a good show. Quality is distant but still listenable. It's the first show with Freddie's "new" live voice.

1979 (Crazy Tour)

* Newcastle (either night)
* Hammersmith

1980 (NA Game Tour)

* Phoenix
* Inglewood
* Oakland (Freddie's the man)
* Hartford
* Providence
* New York (any of the three nights)

1980 (Europe)

* Birmingham (2nd night)
* Wembley (1st night is the best)
* Brussels (2nd night is the best)
* Frankfurt

1981 (Japan)

Tokyo (2/12)
Tokyo (2/13)

1981 (South America)

* Rosario
* Buenos Aires (3rd show)
* Sao Paulo (2nd night has awful quality - but the performances are first class)

All three Mexican 1981 shows are great as well. The first Puebla show has the rowdy audience - but the music/vocals are great. Montreal 1981 is also worth a listen.

1982 (Europe)

* Brussels (2nd night)
* Leiden (1st night)
* Dortmund
* Cologne
* Vienna
* Hamburg
* Kassel
* Munich (Sound is terrible - performances are excellent)
* Leeds
* Edinburgh
* Milton Keynes

1982 (North America)

* Boston
* New York (2nd night)
* Detroit
* Chicago
* East Rutherford
* Oakland

1982 (Japan)

* Osaka
* Nagoya

1984 (Europe)

* Brussels (1st)
* Dublin
* Birmingham (first two shows)
* Milan (either night)
* Leiden
* Frankfurt
* Stuttgart (personally recommend this one)

Sun City is also great. It's very incomplete - but what we have is nice.

1985

* Rio (Both nights have great atmospheres. Freddie is better on the first show - band tightness is better on the second show).
* Melbourne (4/20)
* Sydney (4/26)
* Tokyo (all three shows are good - 2nd night is probably the best one)
* Nagoya (very underrated)
* Live Aid (absolutely amazing)

1986

* Stockholm
* Leiden (amazing performances and atmospheres on all three shows)
* Paris
* Brussels
* Mannheim
* Newcastle
* Wembley (1st night)
* Manchester
* Cologne
* Vienna (Either)
* Budapest
* Frejus
* Barcelona
* Knebworth

Wow thanks a lot Gregsynth :))) I will surely try these out! Although it is gonna take me some time xD

Well holy shit, I don't really think there's anything missing on that list haha, great list Greg!

Great list...and Greg, I am honored that you chose all of the five shows that I recorded, they certainly were the best shows of the tour for me.

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[b]rschoorl wrote: [/b] Great list...and Greg, I am honored that you chose all of the five shows that I recorded, they certainly were the best shows of the tour for me.
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May I ask which shows you recorded? :)

NY MSG 2/5/77, 12/1/77, 11/18/78 Hartford 1980, Boston Garden 1982.

Whoa, nice list, Greg! I think that covers about everything......


The only other ones I could think of are the ADATR Seattle show (the one with the incomplete Thin Lizzy opening performance).......and Osaka 85 (if only for the My Fairy King/March of The Black Queen piano improv!)

Oh yeah......4-4-76 Tokyo..........incomplete but great quality.....

Chicago '80 is pretty good too.........



My personal favorites are 5-1-75 Tokyo and 78 Chicago btw........

GREAT list, Greg! \o/

great list

I'd like to add Osaka1976/03/29 (afternoon), Vienna '78, Rotterdam 1979/01/30, Zurich 1980, Drammen 1982, Sapporo 82, and Berlin 86 to that list

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Wow thanks a lot Gregsynth :))) I will surely try these out! Although it is gonna take me some time xD[/QUOTE]

Not that much! It took me only 7 months to listen every single gig on Greg's channel :)

I guess I would have to say the best ones are the ones I actually went to.
So for me if would be:

Summer '76 Tour:
18.9.76 Hyde Park (front)

Day Of The Races Tour:
7.6.77 Earls Court

WATC Video Shoot / Mini Concert::
6.10 77 New London Theatre

News Of The World Tour:
11.5.78 Empire Pool

Crazy Tour:
10.12.79 The Brighton Centre
11.12.79 The Brighton Centre
13.12.79 The Lyceum Ballroom
14.12.79 Rainbow Theatre
17.12.79 Purley Tiffany
19.12.79 Tottenham Mayfair (Extreme front)
20.12.79 Lewisham Odeon
22.12.79 Alexandra Palace
26.12.79 Hammersmith Odeon

The Game Tour:
8.12.80 Wembley Arena
9.12.80 Wembley Arena

Hot Space Tour:
5.6.82 Milton Keynes Bowl

The Works Tour:
7.9.84 Wembley Arena

Magic Tour:
12.7.86 Wembley Stadium
9.8.86 Knebworth Park

Kurgan, how come you missed Dominion Theatre 88?

^ Didn't have the 'time'!