Forums > Sharing The Music - Announce > Queen, Liverpool, England 1975-11-14 (uncirculated 1st night)

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Dear Queenzoners,
all credits for this new pearl go the the ones who spent their money to buy this piece of Queen history and risk a lot for that and at least to the Wizard to make it available for the public. Please have a listen to the first live performance of Queen's most successful song.

regards and thanks for bringing this up to light.
W.

Sir GH wrote:
"Queen
Liverpool, UK
Empire Theatre
November 14, 1975

This will undoubtedly make quite a few people blow their goo in all the right ways !

Previously uncirculated, this is the first show of the A Night At The Opera tour, which means it's the first live recording of Bohemian Rhapsody - pretty historically significant. This recording is presumably from the master tape, but unconfirmed at this time. A bunch of collectors combined to buy this tape from an auction, and let me assure you it was not cheap !!

There is some bass distortion. Since it's mono and there was more tape hiss in the left channel, I copied the right channel on top of it. I also slowed it down as the tape played slightly too quickly.

Freddie's speech after Sweet Lady is missing for a tape flip (White Queen through Keep Yourself Alive are a 45 minute side of a tape) and God Save The Queen is missing. The show is otherwise complete.

Although Mercury delivers an excellent Sweet Lady, the band almost train wreck after the second chorus ! Essential listening here.

Note the interesting combination of Son And Daughter and Keep Yourself Alive via Brian May's solo, part of a four song mini-set from their debut album.


AUD > Master Cassette (?) > WAV (GoldWave fixes) > FLAC level 8


More info here:

http://queenlive.ca/queen/75-11-14


Disc 1:

1) Bohemian Rhapsody (tape & rock part)
2) Ogre Battle
3) Sweet Lady
4) White Queen
5) Flick Of The Wrist
6) Bohemian Rhapsody (verses)
7) Killer Queen
8) The March Of The Black Queen
9) Bohemian Rhapsody (reprise)
10) Bring Back That Leroy Brown
11) The Prophet's Song
12) Stone Cold Crazy
13) Doing All Right
14) Son And Daughter
15) guitar solo
16) Keep Yourself Alive [cut]

Disc 2:

1) Liar
2) In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited
3) Now I'm Here
4) Big Spender
5) Jailhouse Rock

Enjoy, keep it lossless, and DO NOT BOOTLEG THIS !"

And finally the link:

https://mega.nz/#!IJNi1T5T!HDVNzU_et4Pad2TLOwpo98v2CeLhobv-iX-TF6d6TTA

Please find attached some artwork created by ethiessen1.

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Brilliant! Thanks to those responsible for this share :-)

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I am looking forward to haering this, train wreck and all. They must've been nervous. I had a old tape of the 2nd Liverpool show where Deacy launches at full throttle into Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll, while the rest of the band are playing Stone Cold Crazy. Thank you to all involved for your generosity, As Freddie said: " may you all have champagne for breakfast!" Cheers!

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Many thanks to all those involved for making this recording available for us !

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Thanks to all involved.

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Fantastic! Thanks :-)

A legendary performance... simply because one of the most legendary songs of all time was heard live by an audience for the first time.

Love it how Freddie is daring while singing Sweet Lady. It happened quite a few times that the first performance(s) of a song had him singing it closer to the record.
This happened throughout his entire career. Remember how he sang A kind of magic much closer to the record at the first couple of shows before settling with a less demanding interpretation :-)

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Huge thanks but file deleted... again please???

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I just can say "thank you very much". I wasn't sure if I could be able to listen to this. It's one of these recordings I was waiting for.

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Funny how there's not a big noise by the audience when Freddie starts Bo Rhap... It was an unknown song then :-) :-)

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Thank you very much for this fantastic share!



Bohemian Rhapsody was released before this concert on 31th October 1975.