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Queen live at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY, USA - September 28, 1980 (Part-1)

Roger Taylor summed up his fondest memories of Queen in a 2018 interview: "Live Aid was a highlight and playing the football stadiums in South America; breaking America and playing a run of shows at Madison Square Garden." He is referring to this tour, which saw them doing three nights at the legendary venue.

After Roger sings the line "I'm in love with my car," instead his usual "oh yeah," Mercury responds with, "Yes, his Rolls Royce."

After You're My Best Friend, Freddie has a word with the audience. "Hey, I must tell you, I grew this moustache especially for New York." Naturally, the audience cheers, but Freddie soon reveals the obvious truth. "If you believe that, you'll believe anything!"

In his intro to Fat Bottomed Girls, Freddie does his usual bit: "This is for all you dirty people, anybody here that's got a nice big pair of tits. You know what I mean. And a nice big juicy fat ass!" But he little response. "There must be somebody here... Jesus."

Before Love Of My Life, Brian says, "Madison Square Garden is the most famous gig in the world. It feels like it." Mercury is in superb voice tonight, and his rendition of the ballad is gorgeous. Shortly afterward he sings his balls off in the second verse of Keep Yourself Alive.

In the lead-in back into Brighton Rock after his guitar solo, Brian breaks a string, so Roger has to improvise a bit while Brian quickly gets himself a new axe.

Before Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Freddie talks about his 12-string acoustic: "I'm sure you're all wondering what I'm doing with this thing around my neck. Well, so am I, to be honest!"

This story about one of the nights in New York is from crew member Chris Taylor:

"Deaky and myself were the only two reggae lovers in the outfit, and Bob Marley turned up to see our show at Madison Square Garden [about a week after his last ever show, in Pittsburgh]. Strange choice of show for Bob, but he loved Another One Bites The Dust, and he happened to be in New York on a stopover on his way to Germany for laser treatment. Show time and our intro tape was playing, and someone told John Deacon that Bob was in the audience, so he cranked his bass up and played Lively Up Yourself over the tape. This was very possibly the last time Marley ever heard this played as he died shortly after. I didn't get to meet him, but I did get to meet Tyrone Downie, Bob's keyboard player in the Wailers, and Tyrone and myself got up to all sorts of mischief that night."

The concert photos were taken from the second row by Mark Scotti. In the last two photos the band are seen backstage on one of the three nights at the Garden with the opening act "Dakota", one of which sees Brian May posing with their guitarist Jerry Hludzik.

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acab5023 · 4 years

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🇺🇸 Dakota ‎– Runaway - 1984 An iconic work that represents the purest WestCoast-AOR style. The more sophisticated sound of the Californian West Coast added to the power of the AOR sound of the early 80s. Direct and elegant album of this super duo that marked a landmark in the 80s. Exceptional session musicians like Neil Stubenhaus, Steve Porcaro and many more accompany the golden duo "Jerry G. Hludzik & Bill Kelly" https://labibledelawestcoast.blogspot.com/2011/08/dakota-runaway-1984.html Produced by "Chicago" drummer Danny Seraphine, with David Foster's number one engineer "Humberto Gatica." https://youtu.be/nxibMkwoab4 Excellent vocal melodies and choruses, as well as elegant musical arrangements. WestCoast-AOR Classic! https://www.instagram.com/p/CE6K6nCJyS_/?igshid=1viq60dvjbifx

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