Product Description

Legendär live! Das war 1986 und dieses Konzert setzte alle bisher dagewesenen Gigs in den Schatten! Jedes Kommende mußte sich erstmal hier dran messen. Dieses furiose Stück Konzertgeschichte beweist einmal mehr die Entertainment Qualitäten und die Stimmgewalt von Derwisch FREDDIE MERCURY sowie das grandiose Zusammenspiel der Mega-Band. Genau hierfür wurde die DVD erfunden, um solche Momente bestmöglich zu konservieren und wiedererlebbar zu machen! Entgegen der auf 75-Minuten zurechtgeschnittenen Fassung der VHS Version ist nun das Mega-Event in seiner Gesamtlänge von 110 Minuten auf DVD in astreiner Sound- und Bildqualität erhältlich und noch zusätzlich um einige leckere Side-Kicks bereichert. So finden sich auf DVD 2 gleich eine ganze Reihe von Interviews; neben einem aktuellen 2003! mit Masterminds BRIAN und ROGER finden sich auch Kommentare des Tourmanagers und des Konzert-Directors. Außerdem gibt's noch die Dokumention über das legendäre Erlebnis mit diversen weiteren Interviews, Behind-The-Scenes-Footage, etc. und ein Tribute für das Stadion selbst inklusive der Demontage der beiden berühmten Stadion-Türme.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #628 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-06-09
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 300 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
A complete concert of one of the best bands live, Queen Live at Wembley Stadium is the record of one remarkable summer night in 1986. This really was history in the making: no-one, except possibly Freddie Mercury, could have guessed that the band would only ever play two more concerts in the UK and would never return to Wembley.

Director Gavin Taylor's omnipresent cameras, including stunning aerial views, also remind us of the glories of the now-defunct stadium and its signature towers, such a perfect venue for Queen's epic staging, with their massive video screen and dazzling light show.

The second night playing to a capacity crowd saw the band at the peak of their form, riding high on the popular success of their recent string of hits: "A Kind of Magic", "I Want to Break Free", "Radio Ga Ga" and "One Vision" all feature here alongside earlier favourites from "Seven Seas of Rhye" through "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "We Will Rock You" to "Another One Bites the Dust" and "Under Pressure". In short, a veritable greatest hits collection--all performed with larger-than-life gusto, boundless exuberance and impeccable musicianship. In a period when most new bands were content to mime along to weedy synthesised backing tracks, Queen were simply bigger, bolder and a whole lot more fun than anyone else. Freddie Mercury's extraordinary stage presence is likely to remain forever unsurpassed.

On the DVD: Queen Live at Wembley Stadium is a superb memento of this memorable night. Disc 1 contains the entire Saturday gig (almost two hours) remastered in vivid DTS 5.1 or PCM Stereo. The second disc collects both contemporary and brand-new material, including new interviews with Brian May and Roger Taylor. "A Beautiful Day" is a good documentary made at the time. More exciting is the wealth of unseen footage, both from the Friday night show and the band in rehearsal. There are "Queen Cam" views of each band member, and a photo gallery. Most poignant is a time-lapse short, "Wembley Towers", showing the philistine destruction of these national monuments. It's a fitting epitaph for this great live band. --Mark Walker

DVD Description
Track Listing:

• One Vision
  
• Tie Your Mother Down
  
• In the Lap of the Gods
  
• Seven Seas of Rhye
  
• Tear it Up
  
• A Kind of Magic
  
• Under Pressure
  
• Another Ones Bites the Dust
  
• Who Wants to Live Forever
  
• I Want to Break Free
  
• Impromptu
  
• Brighton Rock Solo
  
• Now I’m Here
  
• Love of My Life
  
• Is This the World We Created
  
• (You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care
  
• Hello Mary Lou
  
• Tutti Frutti
  
• Gimme Some Lovin’
  
• Bohemian Rhapsody
  
• Hammer to Fall
  
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love/8 Big Spender
  
• Radio Ga Ga
  
• We Will Rock You
  
• Friends Will Be Friends
  
• We are the Champions
  
• God Save the Queen

Special Features
Disc One:

• Play concert (110 mins)
  
• Song select
  
• Audio options (DTS 5.1 Surround Sound and PCM Stereo)

  Disc Two:

  • Road To Wembley:
    Brian and Roger – 2003 interview (28 mins)
    Gavin Taylor (Concert Director) and Gerry Stickells (Tour Manager) – interview (19 mins)
    A Beautiful Day - Rudi Dolezal’s backstage documentary about the whole day including interviews and nostalgic footage (30 minutes)
    Tribute to Wembley Towers (5 mins) – tribute to the stadium, including timelapse demolition footage set to These are the Days…
    
  • Unseen Magic:
    Friday Concert medley (28 mins) – highlights package of the previous night’s show
    Rehearsals (10 mins)
    Picture Gallery (5 mins)
    
  • Queen Cams – 4 songs multi-angle:
    One Vision, Under Pressure, Now I’m Here, We are the Champions
    On these songs, it is possible to watch the performance of a specific member of the band eg: if you want to watch Freddie only, select the Freddie Cam.

Customer Reviews

What DVD was invented for
QUEEN LIVE AT WEMBLEY STADIUM

1986 was without doubt Queen's year. Appearing at a sold-out Wembley Stadium, Queen are shown here at their most successful point in what was already an illustrious career. The band had stolen the day at Live Aid the previous year at the same venue, and these dates were the most anticipated of 1986.

Typically of Queen, the show was put on in the grandest manner. The largest stage set (160 feet wide!) an immense bank of coloured lights, and state-of-the art sound and vision system to cater for the 72,000 fans who had made the pilgrimage. The cameras seemed to be everywhere; stage side, in front, above, even helicopter shots looking over the stadium. It was as though they KNEW one day there would be a suitable medium to release this footage on.

But what of the band themselves - by this point the group were one of the very few great British rock bands of the 70s still playing, remarkably with not one change in personnel from their debut album. They had survived glam, punk, disco and New Romantic to emerge as the UK's biggest rock act. The set they played on the Magic tour was carefully considered, with old material sitting comfortably alongside more recent.

You see the approach to Wembley Stadium as the intro plays to 'One Vision' before the camera pans across an empty stadium, and time-lapse footage of the stage being constructed and the fans pouring in. The camera then switches to the stage, and first to emerge is the great Freddie Mercury, arm aloft, bestriding this huge setting. Flanked, as ever, by the reassuring sight of Brian May, complete with curly mop of hair and trusty Red Special in hand, and 'quiet man' John Deacon on the other side, and backed by the blonde powerhouse Roger Taylor, they launch into the main body of the song, the lead-off single from their then current album 'A Kind of Magic'. A succession of oldies follow; they are even confident enough to resurrect their old 70s set-closer 'In The Lap of The Gods...Revisited' (owners of 'Sheer Heart Attack' will know that is the correct title) three songs in - you see clearly the huge crowd swaying along to the 'whoa, whoa' chorus and already they are in the thrall of the majestic Mercury.

The many cameras cut often from Freddie to Roger, Brian to John, but this is far from distracting; it seems to add to the 'feel' of almost being there in the stadium with the crowd, and serves to illustrate that they really were a BAND, and not just the Freddie Mercury show, with great shots of the whole group putting their all into the show. There is even a 'multi angle' feature' on the second disc, with a camera trained (mainly) on each individual band member for four songs, and it is possible to see just how hard the guys rocked out behind Freddie.

With a long set that covered many bases, they even played a light-hearted medley of rock 'n' roll standards before bringing back the heavy artillery towards the end of the set, the band illustrated perfectly why they were so enduringly popular.

This DVD features the complete set for the first time (previously available was a 75 minute edited version) along with the second disc packed with goodies. There is a documentary, the aforementioned 'multi angle' feature, new interviews with Brian and Roger, plus tour manager Gerry Stickells and video director Gavin Taylor. If the whole of the Saturday set was not enough, then there is even some footage included from the Friday concert, when the director used the show to rehearse his filming, plus home video footage of the band rehearsing, previously held by a private collector.

Although the best equipment then available, and plenty of it was used to cover this show, inevitably the footage shows its age when compared to modern digital video - nevertheless the quality still stacks up well and as an added bonus on this release, the soundtrack is available in DTS as well as regular stereo.

If you are a Queen devotee doubtless you are already in possession of this DVD, the more casual fan can buy with confidence. If you are new to Queen and perhaps not familiar with what they were about, watch this disc just once and you will understand. It is painfully clear from watching just ten minutes of this concert just what we lost when Freddie left us; his voice, charisma, showmanship and stage presence were beyond compare, and his ability to enrapture the largest audiences is sorely missed in these days of anonymous arena acts.

Remember Freddie this way: treat yourself to this DVD. You deserve it.

What all Concerts should be Like
I love this DVD. Queen were remembered for their live and superb performances. This DVD has captured the magic of it.
The show starts with the brillant opener 'One Vision'. The jubliation of the crowd when Freddie Mercury comes out is fantastic and the one shot of him coming out of the smoke holding his sawn-off mic stand could go down as one of Rock's greatest shots.
The rest of the songs go through and the band pull them off with such class you might think they were from CD.
The light show is brilliant and Freddies Mercury is the perfect showman, jumping around like a mad man, but none the less you love to see him do it.
To pick favourite tracks is so hard but to pick my favourite it would have to be "Crazy Little Thing called Love". The Rock And Roll tongue in cheek always makes me smile and Brian May solos at the end are so great. Anyway, Brian May changes his guitar three times in that song!

The extras are good aswell. The interviews are amazing, but the multi angle section is such a great advantage. To flip between the bands between each part is a great idea, if only for some songs. Also the selection of songs from the Friday concert is great!

This is one of my favourite DVD's, showing a band who had conquered the world yet still put on a show to get it again.

Just...wow!
The only way to describe this DVD concert is "wow". If you would like to see Queen at their best, this is the concert for you.
In the previous year to this Queen appeared in Live Aid, and decided that after the amazing response they gained in this concert that they would like to play Wembley. It astonishes me how these 4 men managed to carry the entire concert off ON THEIR OWN with only the help in a couple of songs, from long term friend and musician Spike Edney. The amount of energy that is put into every song from each member is incredible, and you definitely gain some of the energy through watching the concert; even though you are not physically there. I am yet to find a band that put as much effort into their public performances as Queen did throughout their career.
Another reason that you may wish you view this, is the fact that I was the last tour the band performed before the death of Freddie Mercury in 1991. It is without doubt a must see for any fan. If you have only ever heard their music on albums, I suggest that you watch them live, because they're pure magic. This is one that you can watch over and over again. Truely, a kind of magic!
As well as the legendary stage performance, this double disc set also invites you to watch the band in rehearsals. The second disc offers a whole range of different viewpoints on the concerts, so for example, say you are a budding guitarist wanting to learn a song, you can set the concert to just watch Brian May on certain songs! As well as this, the second disc also includes rare footage of the band rehearsing before the concerts - this is an insight into the amazing chemistry between the members and is increidbly fun to watch; even though the sound and image quality are not fantastic.
Buy this and take a little piece of Queen home with you. I can guarantee that you won't be disappointed