Audio CD review:
Queen - Live at Wembley Stadium

Queen - Live at Wembley Stadium

Band: Queen Title: Live at Wembley Stadium Rating: Release Date: 19 August, 2003 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: One Vision 2: Tie Your Mother Down 3: In The Lap Of The Gods 4: Seven Seas Of Rhye 5: Tear It Up 6: A Kind Of Magic 7: Under Pressure 8: Another One Bites The Dust 9: Who Wants To Live Forever 10: I Want To Break Free 11: Impromptu 12: Brighton Rock Solo 13: Now I'm Here 14: Love Of My Life 15: Is This The World We Created 16: (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care 17: Hello Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart) 18: Tutti Frutti 19: Gimme Some Lovin' 20: Bohemian Rhapsody 21: Hammer To Fall 22: Crazy Little Thing Called Love 23: Big Spender 24: Radio Ga Ga 25: We Will Rock You 26: Friends Will Be Friends 27: We Are The Champions 28: God Save The Queen 29: A Kind Of Magic 30: Another One Bites The Dust 31: Crazy Little Thing Called Love 32: Tavaszi Szel Vizet Araszt

Editoral Review This double-disc live album recorded at the band's typically massive 1986 Wembley Stadium stand in support of its A Kind of Magic album is a perfect distillation of the band's overarching intentions--and virtually every '70s/'80s rock cliché punk rebelled against. Bigger-than-life and proud of it, Queen's tongue-in-cheek pomposity was ironically one of its most endearing charms. The tracks may reverberate with the boominess of the punter's paradise they were recorded in, but it's an ambience that underscores the shows' propulsive, populist intent. Latter day hits like "Under Pressure" and "Another One Bites the Dust" may have their nascent club-beat savvy hammered into conformity with thumping rockers like "We Will Rock You" and "Tie Your Mother Down," but then this is as unapologetic as stadium rock gets. Mercury, May, Deacon, and Taylor are in top form throughout, shrewdly building the show into what, given its relatively late recording date in their career, might as well be an emblematic greatest hits live (especially on its brisk-paced second disc) experience. --Jerry McCulley .. You can see a complete list of all Queen discography, or go back to the Queen tabs