The Game Tour
The Game Tour|
The band during their stay in Buenos Aires |
Associated album | The Game |
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Start date | 30 June 1980 |
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End date | 25 November 1981 |
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Legs | 6 |
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No. of shows | - 49 in North America
- 18 in Europe
- 5 in Asia
- 10 in South America
- 82 in total
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The Game Tour was the eighth headlining concert tour by the British rock band Queen to support their successful 1980 album The Game. This tour featured the first performances in South America by the group. This tour marked the last time Queen played without a fifth player, as all tours from 1982 onwards would feature an extra man playing on keyboard.
Background
This tour marked the introduction of a new lighting rig for Queen; the "Fly Swatters", also referred to as the "Bic Razors". This is also the first tour where Freddie Mercury had his moustache grown out. He would often ask the audience what they thought, to a mixed reception, where he would often pledge to keep it. Several songs from the new album were incorporated, such as "Play the Game", "Need Your Loving Tonight", and "Rock It". The latter two of which saw very few performances on this leg of the tour, with Rock It being dropped before the four Inglewood dates, and Need Your Loving Tonight being dropped in the middle of August. Both songs would return to the stage in one form or another. Notably, "Somebody to Love" was only performed rarely early in the tour, being practically absent in the first three legs, but would return as a staple to the set by early March in South America.
1980
The June 14, 1980 concert at the
Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Arena
At one of the concerts in Inglewood, Michael Jackson recommended that the band release Another One Bites the Dust as a single, which they did. Believing it not to be single material, the song became a large success for the band, particularly in North America. The Hartford concert in August marks the first known time the song was played live. Dragon Attack was added to the set in Providence later that same month. You're My Best Friend, a successful single for the band, saw its last performance on the last night of the North American leg, at the Madison Square Garden.
At the start of the European leg of the tour, the Battle Theme from the Flash Gordon soundtrack was incorporated into the set. Need Your Loving Tonight was also reincorporated into the set after a lengthy absence, now coming after "Get Down, Make Love". The concert in Essen featured the first performance of "The Hero" from the Flash Gordon soundtrack, with the second night in Birmingham being the debut of "Flash's Theme".
Due to the murder of John Lennon on the 8th of December, the members of Queen created an arrangement of Lennon's greatest hit, "Imagine", which was played on a handful of dates, including the night after Lennon's death, and on the final night of the leg. Whenever the cover was performed, "Keep Yourself Alive" was dropped. "Need Your Loving Tonight" and "Jailhouse Rock" were also dropped on the 9th.
1981
On the Japanese leg of the tour, Vultan's Theme was added to the setlist on February 13, staying as part of the set until the end of the leg.
Queen (with Mercury in an
Argentina jersey) meeting
Diego Maradona (in a
United Kingdom jersey) before their last concert in Buenos Aires, March 8, 1981
Queen was encouraged to play in South America, after discovering that they were extremely popular. In Buenos Aires, Queen drew a crowd of 300,000—the largest single concert crowd in Argentine history as of 1982. In São Paulo, Brazil, the attendance was 131,000 and 120,000 on two consecutive nights. All three Buenos Aires shows were filmed and broadcast, however, only the second night has its footage completely available. A fragment of the first night's footage and a screenshot of the third night's are all that are known to exist. The first São Paulo show was also broadcast and is widely available, however, the second night only circulates via a low quality broadcast, and a poor-quality bootleg.
This was the only tour that Queen played in Venezuela, where they were due to play 5 shows in its capital city, Caracas. However, after their third performance on 27 September, the Venezuelan government declared an 8-day period of National Mourning due to the passing of one of Venezuela's former president. The remaining two concerts were cancelled and all tickets were refunded to more than 50,000 fans. The third night was filmed and was eventually leaked.
Queen were due to play two nights in Monterrey and Guadalajara each, however, due to subpar treatment of the crew by locals during the first night in Monterrey, Queen cancelled the remaining three shows. Two nights in Puebla were quickly set up as replacements, where the band faced unruly crowds that often threw shoes at the band.
1981 Montreal Concerts
In 1980, director Saul Swimmer approached Queen with the idea of producing a concert film. Initially proposed to be shot at the Madison Square Garden, the band moved shooting to the Montreal Forum in Canada due to the audience being louder than the monitors there. When filming was occurring, Saul Swimmer wanted the band to choreograph their act and wear the same costumes on both nights, so he could switch between the footage at will. Out of spite, Jailhouse Rock was performed on the first night, with Mercury still in his trousers, which he wore during the first encore. During the second night, not only was the Elvis cover not performed, but Freddie had also switched to shorts for the first encore, to deliberately mess with the continuity of the footage.
Somehow, Swimmer acquired the rights to the footage. Many overdubs were made to the footage, such as most of Another One Bites the Dust, Sheer Heart Attack, Jailhouse Rock, the rock section of Bohemian Rhapsody, and the first verse of Let Me Entertain You. The footage was given a dry mix and released in 1982 as "We Will Rock You" by Mobilevision.
The film was released many times, including in 1984, 1997, and 2001, before the rights to the film were bought back by Queen Productions in early 2007. As all the footage that had not been included in the final cut had been discarded, the band could not re-edit the film, and could only remaster the video and remix the audio. Nonetheless, the intro sequence of Now I'm Here was recreated. Additionally, Love of My Life had an audience overdubbed onto it, and several fixes were made via pitch correction. Because of this, a good portion of the overdubs was removed. The footage was re-released properly in 2007 as "Queen Rock Montreal", and has received much critical acclaim since.
Setlist
Average setlist
This setlist is representative of the performance on 30 September 1980 in New York City, United States. It does not represent all the setlists for the duration of the tour.
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "You're My Best Friend"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Fat Bottomed Girls"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Brighton Rock (Reprise)"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are the Champions"
- "God Save the Queen"
Selected setlists
North America
San Diego, United States
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "You're My Best Friend"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Need Your Loving Tonight"
- "Rock It"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Brighton Rock (Finale)"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are the Champions"
- "God Save the Queen"
Phoenix, United States
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "You're My Best Friend"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Need Your Loving Tonight"
- "Rock It"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are the Champions"
- "God Save the Queen"
Inglewood, United States / Oakland, United States
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Need Your Loving Tonight"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Somebody To Love"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "You're My Best Friend"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Fat Bottomed Girls"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Brighton Rock (Finale)"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are the Champions"
- "God Save the Queen"
Hartford, United States
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "You're My Best Friend"
- "Save Me"
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Fat Bottomed Girls"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Brighton Rock (Finale)"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are the Champions"
- "God Save the Queen"
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Providence, United States
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "You're My Best Friend"
- "Save Me"
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Fat Bottomed Girls"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Brighton Rock (Finale)"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are the Champions"
- "God Save the Queen"
Montreal, Canada
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "You're My Best Friend"
- "Save Me"
- "Need Your Loving Tonight"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Fat Bottomed Girls"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Brighton Rock (Finale)"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
Encore
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are the Champions"
- "God Save the Queen"
Toronto, Canada / Milwaukee, United States / Rosemont, United States / New York City, United States (First Night) / New York City, United States (Second Night) / New York City, United States (Third Night)
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "You're My Best Friend"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Fat Bottomed Girls"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Brighton Rock (Finale)"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are the Champions"
- "God Save the Queen"
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Europe
Zürich, Switzerland
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Need Your Loving Tonight"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Fat Bottomed Girls"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Battle Theme"
- "Brighton Rock (Finale)"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
- "God Save The Queen"
Paris, France / Cologne, Germany / Leiden, Netherlands
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Need Your Loving Tonight"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Battle Theme"
- "Brighton Rock (Finale)"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
- "God Save The Queen"
Essen, Germany
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Need Your Loving Tonight"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Battle Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Brighton Rock (Finale)"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
- "God Save The Queen"
Berlin, Germany / Birmingham, England (First Night)
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Need Your Loving Tonight"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Fat Bottomed Girls"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Battle Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Brighton Rock (Finale)"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
- "God Save The Queen"
Birmingham, England (Second Night)
- "Intro"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Need Your Loving Tonight"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Fat Bottomed Girls"
- "Love Of My Life"/"We Wish You a Merry Christmas"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Battle Theme"
- "Flash's Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Brighton Rock (Finale)"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
- "God Save The Queen"
London, England (First Night)
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Need Your Loving Tonight"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Fat Bottomed Girls"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Battle Theme"
- "Flash's Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Brighton Rock (Finale)"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
- "God Save The Queen"
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London, England (Second Night)
- "Intro"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Fat Bottomed Girls"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Imagine"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Battle Theme"
- "Flash's Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Brighton Rock (Finale)"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
- "God Save The Queen"
London, England (Third Night)
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Fat Bottomed Girls"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Battle Theme"
- "Flash's Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
- "God Save The Queen"
Brussels, Belgium (First Night)
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Battle Theme"
- "Flash's Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
- "God Save The Queen"
Brussels, Belgium (Second Night)
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Fat Bottomed Girls"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Battle Theme"
- "Flash's Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
- "God Save The Queen"
Frankfurt, Germany / Munich, Germany
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Fat Bottomed Girls"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Imagine"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Battle Theme"
- "Flash's Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
- "God Save The Queen"
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Japan
Tokyo, Japan (First Night)
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Fat Bottomed Girls"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Battle Theme"
- "Flash's Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
- "God Save The Queen"
Tokyo, Japan (Second Night)
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Need Your Loving Tonight"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Vultan's Theme"
- "Battle Theme"
- "Flash's Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
- "God Save The Queen"
Tokyo, Japan (Third Night)
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Rock It"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Vultan's Theme"
- "Battle Theme"
- "Flash's Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
- "God Save The Queen"
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Tokyo, Japan (Fourth Night)
- "Intro"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Rock It"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Vultan's Theme"
- "Battle Theme"
- "Flash's Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "Teo Torriatte"
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
- "God Save The Queen"
Tokyo, Japan (Fifth Night)
- "Intro"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Rock It"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Vultan's Theme"
- "Battle Theme"
- "Flash's Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
Encore
- "Teo Torriatte"
- "God Save The Queen"
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South America Bites The Dust
Buenos Aires, Argentina (First Night)
- "Intro"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Need Your Loving Tonight"
- "Rock It"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Flash's Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
- "God Save The Queen"
Buenos Aires, Argentina (Second Night) / Mar del Plata, Argentina / Rosario, Argentina / São Paulo, Brazil (First Night)
- "Intro"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Somebody To Love"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Need Your Loving Tonight"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Fat Bottomed Girls"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Flash's Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
- "God Save The Queen"
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Buenos Aires (Third Night)
- "Intro"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Somebody To Love"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Need Your Loving Tonight"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Fat Bottomed Girls"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Flash's Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
- "God Save The Queen"
São Paulo, Brazil (Second Night)
- "Intro"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play The Game"
- "Somebody To Love"
- "Mustapha"
- "Death On Two Legs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Rock It"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Flash's Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites The Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
- "God Save The Queen"
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Gluttons For Punishment (South and North America)
We Will Rock You/
Queen Rock Montreal (Canada)
Montreal, Canada (First Night)
- "Intro"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play the Game"
- "Somebody to Love"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Under Pressure"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Flash's Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites the Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
- "God Save The Queen"
Montreal, Canada (Second Night)
- "Intro"
- "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
- "Let Me Entertain You"
- "Play the Game"
- "Somebody to Love"
- "Killer Queen"
- "I'm In Love With My Car"
- "Get Down, Make Love"
- "Save Me"
- "Now I'm Here"
- "Dragon Attack"
- "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
- "Love Of My Life"
- "Under Pressure"
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Drum Solo"
- "Guitar Solo"
- "Flash's Theme"
- "The Hero"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
Encore
- "Another One Bites the Dust"
- "Sheer Heart Attack"
Encore
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are The Champions"
- "God Save The Queen"
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Tour dates
Cancelled concerts
Personnel
- Freddie Mercury – lead vocals, piano, guitar ("Crazy Little Thing Called Love"), tambourine.
- Brian May – guitar, backing vocals, piano.
- Roger Taylor – drums, timpani, lead vocals ("I'm in Love With My Car"), backing vocals.
- John Deacon – bass guitar, additional vocals
Notes
- ^ The "Commemorative Release"
- ^ This was remastered in THX for enhanced audio and video quality, though cropped to 16:9.
- ^ The 17 August 1980 concert in Indianapolis originally part scheduled to take place on 7 September 1980.
- ^ The 20 August 1980 concert in Hartford was originally scheduled to take place on 24 August 1980.
- ^ The 22 August 1980 concert in Philadelphia was originally scheduled to take place on 27 August 1980.
- ^ The 23 August 1980 concert in Baltimore was originally scheduled to take place on 26 August 1980.
- ^ The 24 August 1980 concert in Pittsburgh was originally scheduled to take place on 31 August 1980.
- ^ The 26 September 1980 concert in Boston was originally scheduled to take place on 3 September 1980.
- ^ The 4 March 1981 concert in Mar del Plata was originally scheduled to take place at Estadio Olímpico in Monterrey.
References
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- ^ La historia detrás de la foto by Pablo Lisotto, La Nación, 30 Oct 2018
- ^ "Queen's Flashy Rock". The Washington Post. 27 July 1982.
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- ^ "Archived copy". queenlive.ca. Archived from the original on 15 July 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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- ^ "Queen – Rock Montreal (Album)" (ASP). Austrian Charts (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
- ^ "Queen – Rock Montreal (Album)" (ASP). Ultratop (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
- ^ "Queen – Rock Montreal (Album)" (ASP). Ultratop (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
- ^ "Queen – Rock Montreal (Album)" (ASP). Les Charts (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
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- ^ "Queen – Rock Montreal (Album)" (ASP). Dutch Charts (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
- ^ "Queen – Rock Montreal (Album)" (ASP). Portuguese Charts. Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
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- ^ a b "Top Box Office" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 31. 2 August 1980. p. 36. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ a b "Top Box Office" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 34. 23 August 1980. p. 32. ISSN 0006-2510.
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- ^ a b "Top Box Office" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 36. 6 September 1980. p. 51. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ a b "Top Box Office" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 37. 13 September 1980. p. 35. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ "Top Box Office" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 39. 27 September 1980. p. 37. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ a b c d "Top Box Office" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 40. 4 October 1980. p. 37. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ a b "Top Box Office" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 41. 11 October 1980. p. 41. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ a b c "Top Box Office" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 42. 18 October 1980. p. 31. ISSN 0006-2510.
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