| This is a really excellent video! I like this
much more than Queen
At Wembley, which was recorded few
weeks earlier durin the same Magic Tour! The over all
feeling is much mote intense and harder! This was the
first major stadium gig behind the Iron Curtain and I
think that it had some kind of reflection to the bands
performance. This show was filmed with a bunch of real
movie cameras and it's nice to see an eastern european
way to film a rock concert! There is also some backstage
material, which shows Queen relaxing and doing things in
Budapest. But to the concert itself: From the first bars
of One Vision you can see and HEAR that this really is a
great occasion! Freddie's voice is very powerfull (and
suprisingly he can sing higher that in the previous
Works!-tour for example) and all the band is in a
dazzling form. Tie Your Mother Down was a little
dissappointment though because they have edited the
second verse and solo away! I don't know what the reason
was? Then comes the Medley, which includes In The Lap Of
The Gods, Seven Seas Of Rhye and Tear It Up. The last one
is not on Wembley
video! Then A Kind of Magic and
Under Pressure, which are very nice indeed. The version
of Who Wants To Live Forever is suberb, alltough I don't
know why Roger strangely puts his sun glasses on for this
song?!? And then comes the treat: Brighton Rock guitar
solo and Now I'm Here. On Now I'm Here the backing vocals
(at least if you listen through your stereo system!) are
piece of Art!. Very welcomed numbers indeed. Then comes
the bit where they cool down and play Love Of My Live,
Hungarian Folk Song (Freddie wrote the words on the palm
of his hand!) and Is This The world We Created. Just like
in Wembley
concert they played Tutti Frutti:
first half acoustic and second with harder instruments.
The rest of the concert is same as Wembley. And Freddie
comes again with his crown jewellery in the end of
champions! I personally think that best Queen concerts
come from somewhere 70's (the reason is maybe that I like
the older albums so much, and they played so much stuff
from them back then) , but after watching this concert,
my mind changed and I started to think that Magic Tour
was maybe one of the most powerfull! |
