1979. The entire show was filmed but just a few songs were shown on TV. The rest was most likely wiped.
Some of the best footage of Queen.
Thanks for this, didn't know that and it's quite a shock. Is there a slightest chance that at least copy of the original tapes is out there somewhere (even in the Queen archives) ?
You'd have to ask them... but the last I heard, they don't have it, and neither does the TV station.
* Elba Ramalho (singer and interprete of Forró and MPB music)
" I remember that show them the first rock in rio, was unforgettable, very very beautiful" (Note: she participated in the festival too, and tells the story or myth, she along with other Brazilian artists had been "snubbed" when they would like to meet personally Freddie. When your accessor communicated saying that there were great also famous artists who admire him a lot and liked to meet him, so he replied saying ironically: 'How can they are famous like me, since I never hear about them !' "
"When I enter in backstage, he had given an attack, saquê burning the carpet, broken at the top, had papaya pasted on the ceiling, watermelon was shattered in the mirror ....! ! ! Swept here and he dirtied there, then I said: Hey, if you want to stay that way, so it stays that way, or I'll be gone and you want get in this filth I'll restore it all ! Then after I arranged and cleaned everything he calmed down, has calmed down because he had made a very special request !.... It was not drugs or something wrong. It was a personal thing I need had to sign a term that was not going to talk about....After then I went backstage to take personally what he had requested, he told me to come in and then received . Then we became friends ... "
Yeeeesh.
Combined with the 1976 story about him smashing a mirror over his personal assistant's head (and forcing him to clean it up), we're getting a not too pretty picture of what he was like when things didn't go his way.
Thanks so much! To advanced159 for finding the youtube footage, and to GuitarMay for the translation.
I enjoy nothing more than a good Queen's performance AND a translated backstage ^^
Freddie seemed really like a hurricane by that story.
The first night at rio would make an excellent release! It features one of the best "Somebody to love's" even rivaling some of the hot space tour performances.
No the rest was never filmed. They only filmed the titles we know, so the songs which were broadcasted. The rest wasn't filmed. The munich show was taped on 16mm film and edited on 1"video the latter was used for the broadcast. The original film was binned.
Well the video in the beginning shows clearly the ending of the "overture" and beginning of WWRY, but the songs themselves were never broadcast, and the sound is clearly from a different part of the concert.
In my work, even if i shot Raw i usually downgrade the pictures for storage purposes, knowing most of my photos won't see the light of the day again, and with the size of a picture in Raw or TIFF i could storage thousands of JPEG files. External harddrives can be expensive.
With this nowdays example i mean maybe keep a tape is cheaper or easier than keep a reel of film?
And, maybe they thought it won't have any use in the future? They stored it in tape or whatever and that's it.
Storing film is difficult, leave it at room temperature for too long and it disintegrates, get it too cold to quickly and it curls. Leave it stored in a freezer for more than 15 years, it fades and turns to jelly.
You need proper cold storage and people who know what they are doing because it also needs to be gradually warmed before use because of condensation.
Tapes are a lot cheaper and easier to store. This is why most things were stored on tape after editing.
