Some stats about their concerts

For these stats I’m not counting mimed performances, events where they only played one or two songs, but I am counting the Wembley after-party (it was a private concert, but a concert nonetheless), festivals (Rock in Rio, Live Aid, Sunbury).

Queen played a total of 707 concerts in 30 different countries. I’m counting Croatia and Slovenia as one country as in those days they were both part of Yugoslavia. I’m counting the home nations separately, as they’re different countries (remember Roger’s lyrics, ‘the kingdom’s not united, just a complicated mess’). Though technically not a ‘country’, I’m also counting Mann separately, as it’s technically part of neither England nor Scotland nor Wales.

Anyway, the band played:

247 concerts in the States (over 1/3 of their tally).
181 concerts in England (a fourth of their tally).
54 in West Germany.
50 in Japan.
24 in Canada.
17 in Australia and Scotland.
15 in France.
13 in Belgium and Netherlands.
9 in Bophuthatswana.
8 in Sweden, Spain and Switzerland (three S’s).
7 in Austria.
5 in Wales and Argentina.
4 in Brazil and the Republic of Ireland.
3 in Mexico and Venezuela (which are in different continents, by the way).
2 in Denmark, Italy and Yugoslavia.
1 in Finland, Hungary, New Zealand, Norway, Luxembourg and the Isle of Man.

Now, continent-wise:

344 in Europe (over half of which were in England).
274 in North America (90% in the US, 8.76% in Canada, 1.09% in Mexico).
50 in Asia (all of them in Japan).
18 in Oceania (94.44% in Australia).
12 in South America.
9 in Africa (all of them in Bophuthatswana).

Their concert years by number of gigs played in descending order:

88 gigs in 1977.
73 gigs in 1975.
71 gigs in 1974.
69 gigs in 1982.
64 gigs in 1979.
61 gigs in 1980.
56 gigs in 1976.
55 gigs in 1978.
38 gigs in 1973.
32 gigs in 1984.
27 gigs in 1986.
20 gigs in both 1971 and 1981.
17 gigs in 1985.
13 gigs in 1970.
5 gigs in 1972.

Interestingly, the amount of concerts they played in 1973 was exactly the same as from 1970 to 1972.

Now, some milestones:

Concert No 100 was also their first gig in the States (16th April 1974 in Denver).
Concert No 200 on 19th November 1975 in Cardiff.
Concert No 300 on 20th February 1977 in Lakeland, Florida.
Concert No 400 on 23rd November 1978 (Thanksgiving) in St Louis, Missouri.
Concert No 500 on 14th August 1980 in Greensboro, NC.
Concert No 600 on 2nd August 1982 in Toronto.
Concert No 700 on 21st July 1986 in Vienna.

'Shamefully, I didn't realise Mexico and Venezuela were on separate continents - as they say, you learn something new every day!!

Nice stats Seb, and presented in an easy to read and grasp format. Interesting to see that the U.S. was their most prolific touring country, ehixh shows the hard graft put in there.

9 in Bophuthatswana. Wut?

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[b]Ivo-1976 wrote: [/b] 9 in Bophuthatswana. Wut?[/QUOTE]

Sun City

América is a continent. South America, North America and Central America are parts of América.

Hi Sebastian, out of sheer curiosity...did you count the gig on 7 December 1974 ? I was wondering because of the different indications on various pages, some label that gig as a "SIEGEN" gig, some as a "SINGEN" gig and some didn`t even mention it.

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América is a continent. South America, North America and Central America are parts of América.[/QUOTE]

It all depends on where you were taught geography (which I didn't know until your post).

I never gave a thought as to totals for countries, so thanks for breaking it all down. The amount of shows in the States jump out, just for the fact that their last gig here was at The LA Forum in '82.

North America is a continent, which includes Canada, the United States, and Central America (where Mexico resides). Then there is South America.

Actually, Central America does not include Mexico, but North America does.

North America and South America are different continents.

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Hi Sebastian, out of sheer curiosity...did you count the gig on 7 December 1974 ? I was wondering because of the different indications on various pages, some label that gig as a "SIEGEN" gig, some as a "SINGEN" gig and some didn`t even mention it.[/QUOTE]

I had no idea about that. Care to elaborate?

Very interesting, thanks a lot!

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[b]BETA215 wrote: [/b] América is a continent. South America, North America and Central America are parts of América.[/QUOTE]

Until 1881, you were unquestionably right. However, between 1881 and 1914, the Panama Canal was constructed, and since then, America has consisted of two separate continents, North America and South America.

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[b]BETA215 wrote: [/b] América is a continent. South America, North America and Central America are parts of América.[/QUOTE]

Until 1881, you were unquestionably right. However, between 1881 and 1914, the Panama Canal was constructed, and since then, America has consisted of two separate continents, North America and South America.[/QUOTE]


But then what about referring to Europe and Asia as separate continents, as is done??? According to that reasoning, there'd be less justification to calling them seperate continents than there'd be for calling NA and SA as such.....and I guess Africa wasn't a separate continent until 1869 either!!

(I now see it is sometimes called "Afro-Eurasia", and some people say there are 4 continents.....I say phooey to all that, I was always taught there's 7, dangit! lol.....but then again, I was always taught there were 9 planets in the solar system!!!! :P)

There are obviously many ways to look at it. That's why I made the disclaimer in the beginning about why I separated England, Wales and Scotland but not Croatia and Slovenia or, say, why I didn't consider Catalonia a separate nation.

When it comes to continents, the definition is somewhat vague and what we've ended up with is mostly due to conventions and prescription/description more than a strict logical one-dimensional concept.

Going to a strictly geographical perspective, even by separating the earth in seven continents (some of which also include plenty of nearby islands), there are quite a few whose mainland still covers more than one (besides Turkey and Russia).

A very small part of Panama is technically in South America (i.e., to the south of the canal), but because of the political situation the country's usually considered to be entirely in North America.

Similar quibbles could be made about Kazakhstan, Spain and Egypt.

It's still not an 'everything counts' situation. Under no definition is Portugal in the Indian subcontinent, just like under no definition is Qatar in the middle of the Iberian peninsula, and under no definition is Mexico in South America.