Let's Have Some Fun! Make Your Own Queen Concert!

That is to say, make up a set list for the concert played in the major city closest to you on either the "Miracle on Earth" or "Going Slightly Mad" tours.

This was kinda triggered by the post of "The Imaginary Performance - Queen Live in Uruguay 1983" topic, and I think it'd be fun.

I'll lead off with the first Canadian stop on the "Miracle on Earth" tour. Freddie, Brian, Roger and John were all excited about coming back to North America, especially with the sales of The Miracle north of the 49th.

So, without further ado, the set list from "Miracle in Toronto", live from the Maple Leaf Gardens, July 15, 1989.

1. I Want It All
2. Tie Your Mother Down
3. Long Away
4. Breakthru
5. One Vision
6. A Kind Of Magic
7. Another One Bites The Dust
8. The Invisible Man
9. I Go Crazy
10. I Want To Break Free
11. Keep Yourself Alive
12. Guitar Solo
13. Now I'm Here
*Intermission, band sort of lazes around, chats amongst themselves*
14. Love Of My Live
15. The Miracle
16. Fat Bottomed Girls
17. Action This Day
18. Seven Seas Of Rhye
19. Hammer to Fall
20. Bohemian Rhapsody
21. Scandal
22. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
23. Radio Ga Ga
24. We Will Rock You
25. Kashoggi's Ship
26. We Are The Champions
27. God Save The Queen/O Canada

The intensity of the crowd was high when the Gardens lit up with powerful blue and white lights, almost simulating the sky above. The "Miracle Face" was displayed on a large video scren behind the stage, and out of nowhere, it spoke "I Want It All, I Want It All, I Want It All, and I Want It NOW!" Cue the massive pyrotechnics, Queen has arrived! The band pulled out all the stops for their opening number, Freddie being as lively as ever. Frederator was in a Toronto Maple Leafs tee and blue jeans, Brian was wearing his Magic Tour get-up, John was in leather jacket and shades, and Rog seemed to be wearing...well, not much. The band swung right into another high-paced number, Tie Your Mother Down, to get the place jumping. They quickly took it down a notch afterwards. Brian said something about "reaching to our bag of tricks and making some miracles tonight." And just like that, Long Away starts, completely surprising the better part of the audience! Freddie and Brian sang vocals back-and-forth, until John decided to do his own thing, and shunt the tune into Breakthru, which was the popular single at the time. One Vision and A Kind of Magic were next, with Freddie trotting out in his old Magic Tour jacket, "just for old time's sake." Another One Bites the Dust followed, with the band warning that "things are gonna get a little steamy in here." AOBtD led into the Invisible Man, with John actually singing his part, getting a good rise out of the crowd. Afterwards, another "miracle" from the band: they play I Go Crazy! No one really even knew that this song would be played live! EVER! But it received a decent response from the crowd. IWTBF followed it, which led into Keep Yourself Alive (another nifty one from the archives), after which Brian decided to do his guitar solo. It seemed the band just threw together their setlist at the last moment, which is why there wasn't any Impromptu beforehand. Now I'm Here closed out the 1st half of the concert, leaving the 20,000 or so in attendance nicely buzzed.

Freddie: Now, if you'll excuse us, we need to take a bit of a break. We are, after all, four aging queens. We're old. We need rest. *trots off*
(and btw, Rog was wearing Canada-flag boxers...)

The intermission was a bit of a weird one. The band came back after a while with a change of clothes, but without instruments. They just sorta lay around on stage, chatting about how the concert's going, and plotting out their second half, cracking the occasional joke, stuff like that. (I honestly hope this part makes the DVD...)

Eventually, Brian finds his guitar, and Love of

Any set-list with John Deacon on stage.

great story. You defenitely have some fantasy but indeed a great story.

My story :
Tour : Miracle on Earth
Year : 1989
City : Maastricht , vrijthof

Setlist :
1. Tie your mother down
2. Dead on Time
3. Play the game
4. Breakthru
5. A kind of magic
6. Under presure
7. Invisible man
8. It's a hard live
9. Jealousy (only Fred with the piano)
10. Miracle (only Fred with the piano)
11 Tear it up
12. Put out the fire (faster)
13. Keep yourself alive (with fun it intro)
14. drumsolo
15. guitar solo
16. White man
17. Sleeping on the sidewalk
18. Grazy little thing called love
19. Bohemian rhapsody
20. Liar
21. I want it all
22. Radio gaga
23. I'm in love with my car /Drowse (duet Roger and Fred)
24. The show must go on
25. WWRY
26. WATC
27. first encore
Love of my life (akoestic )
28. The prophet's song (akoestic)
29. Second encore
Stone cold grazy
30. God save the queen

01. Machines (taped into) - Tie your mother down
02. A kind of magic
03. I want it all
04. Medley: - Killer Queen
05. ..........I’m in love with my car
06. ..........Keep yourself alive
07. Innuendo
08. Another one bites the dust
09. Breakthru
10. Somebody to love
11. The Miracle
12. Who Wants to Live Forever
13. Too much love will kill you – acoustic
14. Love of my life – acoustic
15. Crazy little thing called love
16. Guitar Solo
17. Radio ga ga
18. I want to freak free
19. Under pressure
20. Hammer to fall
21. Bohemian rhapsody
22. Heaven for everyone
23. In the lap of the gods (revisited)
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24. Medley: - Now I’m here
25. ..........Headlong/Now I’m here (reprise)
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26. The show must go on
27. These are the days of our lives
28. We will rock you
29. We are the champions

Tie Your Mother Down
Seven Seas Of Rhye
Play The Game
I Want It All
A Kind Of Magic
Another One Bites The Dust
Now I'm Here
Spread Your Wings
Save Me
Love Of My Life
'39
Under Pressure
Hammer To Fall
Stone Cold Crazy
These Are The Days Of Our Lives
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Bohemian Rhapsody
We Will Rock You
Liar
In The Lap Of The Gods,,,revisited

*claps*

very original

The Lord Of Darkness wrote:

*claps*

very original

I love your sarcasm.

JDL2nd wrote:

24. The show must go on

1989? That was on Innuendo.

Miracle On Earth:

Intro (Chinese Torture)
Hammer To Fall
Fat Bottomed Girls
The Miracle
Seven Seas Of Rhye
Keep Yourself Alive
I Want It All
Under Pressure
Another One Bites The Dust
Save Me
Now I'm Here/Khashoggi's Ship (re-Now I'm Here/Dragon Attack)
I Want To Break Free
Brighton Rock (whole song + solo)
Love of My Life
Is This The World We Created?
'39
Breakthru'
A Kind of Magic
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Bohemian Rhapsody
Was It All Worth It?

ENCORES-
Procession
Tie Your Mother Down
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
God Save The Queen

Slightly Mad Tour

(An Intro of some sort)
Tie Your Mother Down
Headlong
I Want It All
Las Palabras De Amor
Hammer To Fall
Hitman
Stone Cold Crazy
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Love of my Life
Is This The World We Created
'39
Under Pressure
Another One Bites The Dust
I Want To Break Free
Brighton Rock (goes into Last Horizon half way through, then back to Brighton Rock)
Now I'm Here
Days Of Our Lives
Somebody To Love
Bohemian Rhapsody

ENCORES

Show Must Go On
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
God Save The Queen

Live in Gothenburg 3 july 1989

1. Breaktrough
2. Tie your mother down
3. You and I
4. I want to break free
5. Rain must Fall
6. One year of love
7. Back chat
8. I you can't beat 'em
9. Need your loving tonight
10. Spread your wings
11. Your my best friend
12. Love of my life
13. Now I'm Here
14. Rock it
15. save me
16. Bohm Rhap
17. The prophet song/white queen
18. Scandal
19. Seven seas of rhye
20. Killer Queen
21. The Millionaire Waltz
22. We will rock you (fast)
23. The Miracle
24. Big spender
25. Hammer to fall
26. We are the champions
27 GSTQ

1. Keep Yourself Alive
2. Great King Rat
3. Ogre Battle
4. The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
5. Brighton Rock Solo
6. Now I'm Here
7. Bohemian Rhapsody
8. Tie Your Mother Down
9. You And I
10. Spread Your Wings
11. Get Down, Make Love
12. Mustapha
13. Let Me Entertain You
14. Another One Bites The Dust
15. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
-Intermission-
To open the second half of the show, they should sing a couple songs by other artists:
16. Imagine, by John Lennon
17. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, by Elton John
18. Las Palabras De Amor
19. Under Pressure
20. Tear It Up
21. It's A Hard Life
22. One Vision
23. Who Wants To Live Forever
24. The Miracle
25. Breakthru
26. Headlong
27. The Show Must Go On
28. Nevermore
29. Funny How Love Is
30. God Save The Queen

Just realized: The SkyDome (now the Rogers Centre) would've JUST opened that year, so Queen would've likely played there. 55,000 people swaying in time...not quite Wembley, but on the west side of the Atlantic, that's pretty impressive.

And I'm surprised at the amount of ideas so far for the two (or three) tours that could've been.

I'm guessing englishyob's set list would've been for the "Heaven For Everyone" tour in 1995.

sorry, the first time, i didn't realize we were supposed to draw a story around it, so, here's my remake

tour: Innuendo tour
location: Kansas City
year: 1991 (a little before Freddie died)

start-off: Brian,John,and Roger are on stage in their position, and Brian begins the intro, and Freddie comes out in time for the beginning line of Keep Yourself Alive
1. Keep Yourself Alive: with the lyrics altered as they were on Live Killers
2. Great King Rat
3. Ogre Battle
4. The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
5. Brighton Rock Solo: the rest of the band leaves the stage and Brian checks with the audience every 3 minutes or so to see if they want to go on
6. Now I'm Here: Brian starts off and the band re-enters
7. Bohemian Rhapsody: after Brian's solo, the band leaves the stage and plays the record (as they always did) and re-enter's after the "Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me" part
8. Tie Your Mother Down: the band plays the intro from the record and rejoins at the beginning of the guitar riff (the band does not leave the stage here)
--Medley--
9. You And I
10. Spread Your Wings
11. Get Down, Make Love
--End Medley--
12. Mustapha
13. Let Me Entertain You
14. Another One Bites The Dust
15. Crazy Little Thing Called Love: Freddie gets out the guitar he always uses on this song
-Intermission-
To open the second half of the show, they should sing a couple songs by other artists:
16. Imagine, by John Lennon
17. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, by Elton John
18. Las Palabras De Amor
19. Under Pressure: before they start, the audience is surprised when David Bowie comes out on stage and performs
20. Tear It Up: David Bowie performs in this one as well
21. It's A Hard Life: David Bowie leaves and the band continues
22. One Vision
23. Who Wants To Live Forever: Brian actually sings the entire song this time
24. The Miracle: the part at the end of this song on the record is not performed (the "That time will come one day you'll see when we can all be friends:)
25. Breakthru
--Medley--
26. Headlong
27. The Show Must Go On
--End Medley--
28. Nevermore
29. Funny How Love Is
30. God Save The Queen: at the beginning of the song, David Bowie comes out and the entire band (including Bowie) bows to the audience as the music on the record plays

how's that?

Very cool.
Actually, you didn't need to make a story for it, but it helps.
Wonder if we can "bootleg" one of these gigs eventually...

Suigi wrote:

Very cool.
Actually, you didn't need to make a story for it, but it helps.
Wonder if we can "bootleg" one of these gigs eventually...

How could we "bootleg" any of these if we don't have Freddie's vocals?