Queen at Wembley

Queen at Wembley
Directed by Gavin Taylor
Produced by Simon Lupton
Rhys Thomas
Starring Freddie Mercury
Brian May
Roger Taylor
John Deacon
Spike Edney
Music by Queen
Release date
  • December 1990 (1990-12)
Running time
 300 min
Language English

Queen at Wembley is a video recorded at the Original Wembley Stadium, London, England on Saturday 12 July 1986 during Queen's Magic Tour. It was first released in December 1990 as an edited VHS (missing 9 songs), then as an audio CD in 1992, followed by a DVD release as Queen: Live at Wembley Stadium (in its entirety) to coincide with the CD rerelease in 2003. The DVD has gone five times platinum in the United States, four times platinum in the United Kingdom, and achieved multi platinum status around the world. On 5 September 2011, the 25th Anniversary Edition of the concert was released as a standard 2-DVD set and a deluxe 2-DVD and 2-CD set. Eagle Rock Entertainment released a 25th Anniversary Edition in the USA and Canada on 12 March 2013.[1]

Disc one

  1. One Vision
  2. Tie Your Mother Down
  3. In the Lap of the Gods... Revisited
  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
  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

Disc two

Road to Wembley

  • Brian May and Roger Taylor interview (2003) (28 mins)
  • Gavin Taylor (Director) and Gerry Stickles (Tour Manager) interview (19 mins)
  • A Beautiful Day – Rudi Dolezal's backstage documentary about the whole day (30 mins)
  • Tribute to the Wembley Towers – including timelapse demolition footage set to 'These Are the Days of Our Lives (Instrumental)' (5 mins)

Unseen Magic

  • Features 'Friday Concert Medley' – highlights package of the previous night's show (28 mins):
  1. A Kind of Magic
  2. Another One Bites The Dust
  3. Tutti Frutti
  4. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
  5. We Are The Champions (ending)
  6. God Save The Queen
  • Rehearsals (10 mins)
  • Picture Gallery (5 mins) (The background music for this extra is the full, unreleased original version of "A Kind of Magic" used in the Highlander film)

Queen Cams

4 tracks presented in multi-angle Brian, Roger, John and Freddie cams:

  1. One Vision
  2. Under Pressure
  3. Now I'm Here
  4. We Are the Champions

Audio

PCM Stereo & DTS 5.1 Surround Sound

The Original Concert

The original concert started at 4.00pm with tickets costing £14.50, Four bands performed in the following order:

  1. INXS
  2. The Alarm
  3. Status Quo
  4. Queen

Charts and certifications

References

  1. ↑ http://www.queenonline.com/en/news-archive/live-at-wembley-25th-anniversary-edition-dvd-to-get-us-and-canadian-release/
  2. ↑ "ariaNET: The ARIA Report! (Issue 707)" (PDF). Pandora Archive. Australian Recording Industry Association. p. 19. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
  3. ↑ "Austrian Top 10 DVDs Chart". Ö3 Austria Top 40 (in German). 24 July 2003.
  4. ↑ "Hovedmeny: SØK I BASE". IFPI Norway (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Search for Queen under Søk på artist i alle listene to see search results.
  5. ↑ "Archivum: DVD Top 20". Mahasz (in Hungarian). Retrieved 30 July 2011.
  6. ↑ "Argentinian video certifications – Queen – Live at the Wembley Stadium". Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers.
  7. ↑ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2005 DVDs". Australian Recording Industry Association.
  8. ↑ "Austrian video certifications – Queen – Live at Wembley Stadium" (in German). IFPI Austria. Enter Queen in the field Interpret. Enter Live at Wembley Stadium in the field Titel. Select DVD in the field Format. Click Suchen. 
  9. ↑ "French video certifications – Queen – Queen at Wembley" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique.
  10. ↑ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Queen; 'Live at Wembley Stadium')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
  11. ↑ "Certificaciones" (in Spanish). Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Type Queen in the box under the ARTISTA column heading and Live at the Wembley Stadium in the box under TÍTULO
  12. ↑ "New Zealand video certifications – Queen – Live at Wembley". Recorded Music NZ.
  13. ↑ "Polish video certifications – Queen – Queen at Wembley" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry.
  14. ↑ "British video certifications – Queen – Live at Wembley". British Phonographic Industry. Select videos in the Format field. Select Platinum in the Certification field. Type Live at Wembley in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  15. ↑ "American video certifications – Queen – Live at Wembley". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Video Longform, then click SEARCH. 
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