Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1106 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

This is a bit of rock history
I was 26 and my girlfriend and i were lucky enough to be there. It made me so sad to see Freddie on this DVD and think he's no longer with us, he's Awsome!

this is the best DVD i've ever bought, it's pure history!

How kind of Queen!
Ok, the context: 1986 saw a massive resurgence in Queen's popularity, largely on the back of Live Aid and the preceeding album 'The Works' which did re-ignite their career with the notable exception of the USA.
The '86 album A Kind of Magic confirmed that position and,
having been relegated to has-beens in the States, Queen put ALL of their efforts into their biggest European Tour ever.
The Wembley shows were booked in the middle of the extesive tour and finds Queen at their well-oiled live peak.
In contrast to Live In Montreal, the band connect instantly with the huge audience with a slamming rendition of One Vision. Freddie doesn't attempt to hide his delight, somehow relating to the entire 72000 strong audience; a wacky schoolmaster and long-lost friend
The set is fairly predictable with the exception of the rock'n'roll medley where Messrs May and Taylor abandon their stations to provide an unplugged rockabilly delight!
Above all, it's the love of each other and their audience that wins here - a band on top of their game.
Pure delight

one error,still a great show
in reply to magic rat,the reason why gimme some lovin so abruptly stops,is cos freddie has clearly forgotten the lyrics!!!!