Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl

Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl
Live album by Queen
Released 25 October 2004 (Europe)
9 November 2004 (US)
Recorded 5 June 1982 in Milton Keynes
Genre Rock
Length 101:58
Label Parlophone (Europe)
Hollywood (US)
Producer Brian May, Roger Taylor, Justin Shirley-Smith
Queen chronology
At the Beeb
(1995)		 Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl
(2004)		 Queen Rock Montreal
(2007)
Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl
Directed by Gavin Taylor
Produced by Jeff Brown
Malcolm Gerrie
Simon Lupton
Brian May
Roger Taylor
Rhys Thomas
Andrea Wonfor
Starring Freddie Mercury
Brian May
Roger Taylor
John Deacon
Morgan Fisher
Fred Mandel
Release dates
  • 2004 (2004)
Running time
 170 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
BBC(Positive) [1]
Allmusic [2]

Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl is a double compact disc live album by English band Queen released on 25 October 2004 in Europe and on 9 November 2004 in the US.

It was recorded live at the Milton Keynes Bowl, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, on 5 June 1982 during the Hot Space Tour. A DVD was also released at the time with the concert and bonus material, such as band interviews and tour highlights.

In 2005, the album was also released as an LP, like every Queen album.

In the UK the CD made #20 and DVD #1 in the album and DVD chart respectively. In the US, neither the album nor the DVD charted.

Notes

During the show, lead guitarist Brian May had problems with his homemade Red Special guitar. During both the fast version of "We Will Rock You" and "Dragon Attack", two guitar strings broke and he had to change to his Birch Red Special backup for most of "Action This Day" and for the entire second half of "Dragon Attack" and the entire duration of "Now I'm Here (Reprise)".

Before playing "Love of My Life", May played a snippet of the intro to "Las Palabras de Amor" calling it "a little fiddle around".

During May's guitar solo, the lead on his guitar disconnected and May's guitar solo stopped for 20 seconds (the full 20 seconds can be found on the DVD but the album version of the performance contains only 3 seconds). A roadie helped May to get his guitar working again.

Bassist John Deacon and drummer Roger Taylor performed impromptu solos during "Dragon Attack" and before "Under Pressure," respectively when May switched guitars during "Dragon Attack" and was getting his guitar fixed following his solo. Taylor had stopped doing drum solos (he last performed one in November 1981) this was the only time he did a drum solo post-1981 with the original lineup of Queen. The next drum solo did not occur until the Queen + Paul Rodgers Return of the Champions Tour in 2005.

During "Fat Bottomed Girls", Freddie Mercury's voice briefly slipped into an off-key falsetto during the lyric "in this locality" (the error could be heard on the original BBC TV, Channel 4, MTV, and radio broadcasts of the Milton Keynes show) but the error was fixed for the release of the CD and DVD.

During the first verse of "Fat Bottomed Girls", instead of saying the original line "you made a bad boy out of me", Mercury said "you made an asshole out of me" instead.

Mercury performed without his trademark bottomless microphone stand for "The Hero" (shown on the Live in Japan bonus footage on DVD), "We Will Rock You (Fast)" and "Now I'm Here". This allowed Mercury to more freely scale and walk along the raised wings on either side of the stage. Although it is noticeable that he is using a cordless microphone which were becoming available at the time and appears to be relatively larger than a standard microphone.

Due to censorship laws the Hong Kong & China release of the CD removed "Get Down, Make Love" or "Fat Bottomed Girls"

Track listing

Disc 1

  1. "Flash" (May) – 1:54
  2. "The Hero" (May) – 1:44
  3. "We Will Rock You" (Fast) (May) – 3:17
  4. "Action This Day" (Taylor) – 4:52
  5. "Play the Game" (Mercury) – 4:30
  6. "Staying Power" (Mercury) – 4:03
  7. "Somebody to Love" (Mercury) – 7:53
  8. "Now I'm Here" (May) – 6:18
  9. "Dragon Attack" (May) – 4:16
  10. "Now I'm Here" (Reprise) (May) – 2:21
  11. "Love of My Life" (Mercury) – 4:22
  12. "Save Me" (May) – 4:00
  13. "Back Chat" (Deacon) – 5:00

Disc 2

  1. "Get Down, Make Love" (Mercury) (not included on the China or Hong Kong release) – 3:39
  2. "Guitar Solo " (May) – 6:22
  3. "Under Pressure" (Queen/Bowie) – 3:47
  4. "Fat Bottomed Girls" (May) (not included on the China or Hong Kong release) – 5:25
  5. "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" (Mercury) – 4:15
  6. "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Mercury) – 5:38
  7. "Tie Your Mother Down" (May) – 4:09
  8. "Another One Bites the Dust" (Deacon) – 3:49
  9. "Sheer Heart Attack" (Taylor) – 3:25
  10. "We Will Rock You" (May) – 2:08
  11. "We Are the Champions" (Mercury) – 3:28
  12. "God Save the Queen" (Trad. arr. May) – 1:24

DVD bonus material

Personnel

Charts and certifications

Charts

Album

Chart (2004) Peak
position
Austrian Top 75 Albums[3] 23
Belgium (Flanders) 100 Albums[4] 60
Belgium (Wallonia) 100 Albums[5] 80
French Top 200 Albums[6] 75
German Albums Chart[7] 10
Italian Top 20 Albums[8] 15
Netherlands Top 100 Albums[9] 74
Portuguese Top 30 Albums[10] 9
Swiss Top 100 Albums[11] 52
UK Albums Chart[12] 20
Chart (2005) Peak
position
Spanish Top 100 Albums[13] 73

DVD

Chart (2004) Peak
position
Australian Top 40 DVDs[14] 10
Austrian Top 10 Music DVDs[15] 1
Norwegian Top 10 DVDs[16] 4
Swedish Top 20 DVDs[17] 1
Chart (2005) Peak
position
Belgium (Wallonia) Top 10 Music DVDs[18] 1
Hungarian Top 20 DVDs[19] 5

Certifications

Album

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Austria (IFPI Austria)[20] Gold 15,000x
Germany (BVMI)[21] Platinum 200,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[22] Gold 100,000^

^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

DVD

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Argentina (CAPIF)[23] Platinum 8,000x
Australia (ARIA)[24] 3× Platinum 45,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[25] Gold 5,000x
France (SNEP)[26] 3× Platinum 60,000*
Germany (BVMI)[27] 5× Gold 125,000^
Mexico (AMPROFON)[28] Gold 10,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[29] Gold 3,000x
United Kingdom (BPI)[30] 3× Platinum 150,000^
United States (RIAA)[31] Platinum 100,000^

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

References

  1. ↑ "Music - Review of Queen - Queen On Fire: Live At The Bowl". BBC. 2003-11-14. Retrieved 2011-12-03.
  2. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/queen-on-fire-live-at-the-bowl-r714768/review
  3. ↑ "Queen – Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl (Album)" (ASP). Austrian Charts (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  4. ↑ "Queen – Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl (Album)" (ASP). Ultratop (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  5. ↑ "Queen – Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl (Album)" (ASP). Ultratop (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  6. ↑ "Queen – Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl (Album)" (ASP). Les Charts (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  7. ↑ "Chartverfolgung / Queen / Longplay". Music Line (in German). Media Control Charts. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  8. ↑ "Queen – Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl (Album)" (ASP). Italian Charts. Hung Medien. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  9. ↑ "Queen – Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl (Album)" (ASP). Dutch Charts (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  10. ↑ "Queen – Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl (Album)" (ASP). Portuguese Charts. Hung Medien. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  11. ↑ "Queen – Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl (Album)" (ASP). Swiss Charts. Hung Medien. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  12. ↑ "Chart Archive: Top 40 Official UK Albums Archive – 6th November 2004". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  13. ↑ "Queen – Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl (Album)" (ASP). Charts. Hung Medien. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  14. ↑ "ariaNET: The ARIA Report! (Issue 769)" (PDF). Pandora Archive. Australian Recording Industry Association. p. 22. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  15. ↑ "Austria Top 40 – Musik-DVD Top 10" (ASP). Austrian Charts (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  16. ↑ "Topp 10 DVD Audio: 2004 – Uke 47". VG-lista (in Norwegian). Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  17. ↑ "Sverigetopplistan". Sverigetopplistan (in Swedish). Search for Queen and click SØk.
  18. ↑ "Ultratop 10 Musicaux" (ASP). Ultratop (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  19. ↑ "Archivum: DVD Top 20". MAHASZ (in Hungarian). Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  20. ↑ "Austrian album certifications – Queen – On Fire - Live at the Bowl" (in German). IFPI Austria. Enter Queen in the field Interpret. Enter On Fire - Live at the Bowl in the field Titel. Select album in the field Format. Click Suchen
  21. ↑ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Queen; 'Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
  22. ↑ "British album certifications – Queen – On Fire - Live at the Bowl". British Phonographic Industry. Enter On Fire - Live at the Bowl in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Select Gold in the field By Award. Click Search
  23. ↑ "Argentinian video certifications – Queen – Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl". Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers.
  24. ↑ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2006 DVDs". Australian Recording Industry Association.
  25. ↑ "Austrian video certifications – Queen – Queen on Fire" (in German). IFPI Austria. Enter Queen in the field Interpret. Enter Queen on Fire in the field Titel. Select DVD in the field Format. Click Suchen
  26. ↑ "French video certifications – Queen – Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique.
  27. ↑ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Queen; 'Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
  28. ↑ "Certificaciones – Queen" (in Spanish). Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas.
  29. ↑ "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Queen; 'On Fire: Live at the Bowl')". Hung Medien.
  30. ↑ "British video certifications – Queen – Live at the Bowl". British Phonographic Industry. Enter Live at the Bowl in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select DVD in the field By Format. Select Platinum in the field By Award. Click Search
  31. ↑ "American video certifications – Queen – On Fire: Live at the Bowl". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Video Longform, then click SEARCH

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