What an absolutely beautiful thread: http://www.queenzone.com/forums/1392361/1974-03-31-london-the-fairy-fellers-master-stroke.aspx?page=1
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Live at the Rainbow is unlistenable to me in parts... I don't consider myself an audiophile in the slightest, but the Freddie I hear of 'Fairy Fellers' etc. might as well be a deep fake. It doesn't sound like Freddie at all, but some sub-aquatic robot Freddie. If you're gonna do some little tricks in the editing suite to deal with mistakes... either do it right, so we don't really notice them or don't bother. Overdubs etc. have never stuck out to me like the Rainbow shit. It's why I can't consider it a great release, unlike many here do.
@Supersonic_Man89:
That's pretty hysterically overstated.
That's pretty hysterically overstated.
Our own Chief Mouse gets a shout
On the last DVD release they corrected It's a Hard Life:
-VHS Rio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF_AMODWnlQ
-DVD Rio (Corrected ending) 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BuILTO_p9k
Dysan +1 I prefer autotune release than none. I suppose if they couldn't autotuned/overdubbed they couldn't release anything in these days because even the best concerts to release like Hammy 1979 has flubbed notes, voice crack (Spread Your Wings for example) etc...
The overdubbing in that It's A Hard Life gets even worse - the VHS release had Freddie's forgetting of the lyrics intact ("It's a fah da da da, oh in love"), but they overdubbed it on the DVD.