25 years ago today: The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert

i still have the vhs version of the bbc broadcast...i remember with TYMD, Slash was playing in the wrong or his guitar was still half tone down from the GNR set.

Amazing concert to have been at. We were right down near the front on Brian's side of the stage. Great day though sad as well. I was lucky enough to attend the sound check the day before. Spinal Tap did most of the sound check in character! Dave St Hubbins saying hello Paris then telling my Mrs her Sound Garden t shirt was cool! During that afternoon we also chatted to Joe Elliot who said he could sense a real change in music was just round the corner.

The best thing though was seeing/feeling that sense in the audience of it being a special day and seeing John, Brian and Roger on stage together. The day after the gig I wrote to Brian just to say how much we enjoyed the show and hoped he did despite the difficulties it must have caused. He wrote back a couple of weeks later, quite a long detailed letter thanking me for my support and awareness.

/Great , Vocal Harmony.
I was in the Olympic gallery. £75 tickets ! - all I could get.

I didn't like any of the acts involved and 1992 was a real vacuum in the pop world. I can't help thinking it would've been better a year later. Brett Anderson would've done Cool Cat, L7 would've done SHA, REM would've done Friends Will Be Friends and Ugly Kid Joe Ogre Battle

It was a great day though (watching it all on telly) excited for what was coming up next..

For those who wached that concert live... how was John Deacon during that day...? The camera's kinda missed a bit of him... did he get involved with much of the backing vocals...? Would have to be the first and only time in Queens live career that he spoke on stage.... METALLICA....!!!
Kinda get that feeling the more he's on the mic the more he's seems to be in one of his better moods I.e wembly he was having a blast and you could see that in regards to his mic getting bit of a work out.
He was probably the closest to coming to tears during that final scene....

I came from Germany by bus (Rosi Reisen)& ferry....

I remember the way to Wembley by underground through the suburbs of London.....the esplanade to Wembley, fans, fans,fans. Had an Daid Bowie fan/double on the bus.....i remember a japanese girl beside me crying the whole concert.

Biggest moment was "Too much love will kill you", a then still unknown track sung by Brian May.
But the DVD Version is edited, his voice was weaker that day and he didn`t hit all the notes......

Plant was a desaster, since then my wife doesen`t allow me (til today) to listen Plant/Zep records when she`s at home, haha