Freddie Mercury tribute concert BD 9/3/13

[Michael Allred]

The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert Blu-ray PRE-ORDER



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Eagle Rock Entertainment will release The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert as an SD Blu-ray – with upscaled standard definition original material with uncompressed stereo and DTS-HD surround sound for the best possible quality. This release boasts newly remastered sound across both sections of the concert and represents the first time the opening acts' performances have been made available on Blu-ray. Street date is September 3rd.

On April 20th 1992, Roger Taylor, Brian May and John Deacon, the surviving members of Queen, took to the stage at Wembley Stadium for the start of one of the biggest events in rock history, which the band had organized to pay tribute to their former colleague – the incomparable Freddie Mercury. Queen were joined by some of the greatest musical talent in the world to celebrate Freddie's life and work and to increase public awareness of AIDS, the disease that had prematurely ended his life the previous year.

The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert features many Queen classics in unique performances including: "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Hammer To Fall", "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", "Radio Ga Ga", "I Want To Break Free", "Under Pressure", "Somebody To Love", "We Will Rock You", "We Are The Champions" and many more. Special guests include David Bowie, Gary Cherone, Roger Daltrey, Def Leppard, Joe Elliott, Extreme, Bob Geldof, Guns 'n' Roses, James Hetfield, Ian Hunter, Tony Iommi, Elton John, Annie Lennox, Metallica, George Michael, Liza Minnelli, Robert Plant, Mick Ronson, Axl Rose, Seal, Slash, Lisa Stansfield, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Young & Zucchero.

As well as being great entertainment, the concert raised a huge and still growing sum of money for the Mercury Phoenix Trust, a charity formed at the time by Roger Taylor, Brian May and Queen's longtime manager Jim Beach whose charter is the relief of suffering from AIDS throughout the world. Profits from this release will be donated by the Mercury Phoenix Trust to AIDS charities around the globe.

OPENING ACTS

1) Intro
2) Brian May / Roger Taylor / John Deacon Introduction
3) Metallica – Enter Sandman
4) Metallica – Sad But True
5) Metallica – Nothing Else Matters
6) Freddie Montage (Insert)
7) Extreme – Queen Medley including: Mustapha / Bohemian Rhapsody / Keep Yourself Alive / I Want To Break Free / Fat Bottomed Girls / Bicycle Race / Another One Bites The Dust / Stone Cold Crazy / Radio Ga Ga
8) Freddie Montage (Insert)
9) Def Leppard & Brian May – Now I'm Here
10) Queen – I'm Going Slightly Mad video (Insert)
11) Bob Geldof – Too Late God
12) Guns 'n' Roses – Paradise City
13) Guns 'n' Roses – Knocking On Heavens Door
14) Elizabeth Taylor Speech

QUEEN + SET

1) Joe Elliott, Slash & Queen – Tie Your Mother Down
2) Roger Daltrey, Tony Iommi & Queen – I Want It All
3) Zucchero & Queen – Las Palabras De Amor
4) Gary Cherone, Tony Iommi & Queen – Hammer To Fall
5) James Hetfield, Tony Iommi & Queen – Stone Cold Crazy
6) Robert Plant & Queen – Crazy Little Thing Called Love
7) Brian May – Too Much Love Will Kill You
8) Paul Young & Queen – Radio Ga Ga
9) Seal & Queen – Who Wants To Live Forever
10) Lisa Stansfield & Queen – I Want To Break Free
11) David Bowie, Annie Lennox & Queen – Under Pressure
12) Ian Hunter, David Bowie, Mick Ronson & Queen – All The Young Dudes
13) David Bowie, Mick Ronson & Queen – Heroes
14) George Michael & Queen –'39
15) George Michael, Lisa Stansfield & Queen – These Are The Days Of Our Lives
16) George Michael, London Gospel Choir & Queen – Somebody To Love
17) Elton John, Axl Rose & Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
18) Elton John, Tony Iommi & Queen – The Show Must Go On
19) Axl Rose & Queen – We Will Rock You
20) Liza Minnelli & Ensemble – We Are The Champions

BONUS MATERIAL

1) Rehearsal performances of Queen:
David Bowie and Annie Lennox 'Under Pressure'
George Michael and Lisa Stansfield 'These Are The Days Of Our Lives
George Michael 'Somebody To Love'
2) 10th Anniversary Documentary
3) Photo Galleries
4) Mercury Phoenix Trust Facts

Basically the old VHS re-issued on DVD and BD and no, it is NOT the complete concert but it's still far better than the previous DVD.

[Lemmy Lugosi]

Excellent! Day 1 purchase.

[DoUrden]

Wow, this should be incredible!! Day 1 for sure!

[pi2loc]

"as an SD Blu-ray – with upscaled standard definition"

That's sad but hey, anything better than the VHS release.

[Veronica Mars]

Will this look substantially better than a SD DVD that my blu-ray player would upconvert?

[pi2loc]

Originally Posted by Veronica Mars

Will this look substantially better than a SD DVD that my blu-ray player would upconvert?

Yes, I wouldn't expect much though.

Anyways, does anyone know how this was originally filmed?

[zman73]

wow.. a must buy for me seeing how my dvd never had the opening acts on it... Extremes queen medley was amazing

[starman15317]

I'm pretty sure this was shot on SD video. I've never seen this other than U2's performance via satellite and Metallica's performance. Will it really be worth getting over the DVD though?

[Rhoq]

Originally Posted by Veronica Mars

Will this look substantially better than a SD DVD that my blu-ray player would upconvert?

I would guess that it will look as good as the WWE Blu-rays that contain a ton of SD archival footage. If so, it's definitely better than a DVD - but marginally. The good thing is that this could potentially pave the way for other things that were shot on video to get a "SD Blu-ray" release (TV shows, specifically).

[Blu-ray Neo]

Day 1 buy for me.

I absolutely loved Rose's version of "We will rock you".

[Michael Allred]

Originally Posted by pi2loc

Yes, I wouldn't expect much though.

Anyways, does anyone know how this was originally filmed?

videotape, it was 21 years ago afterall. 4:3 though I suspect they'll 16:9 it like they did the previous DVD.

[Michael Allred]

Originally Posted by starman15317

I'm pretty sure this was shot on SD video. I've never seen this other than U2's performance via satellite and Metallica's performance. Will it really be worth getting over the DVD though?

For me? Yes simply because it features more of the show.

[Lemmy Lugosi]

Originally Posted by starman15317

I'm pretty sure this was shot on SD video. I've never seen this other than U2's performance via satellite and Metallica's performance. Will it really be worth getting over the DVD though?

Oh, yes.

[starman15317]

I didn't realize the old DVD was missing performances that will be on this Blu-Ray. Plus I noticed that the old DVD is OOP and pricey (though I'm sure the price will go down).

Anyways, I'll probably pick this up at some point. Eagle Rock is releasing it on DVD too, but I'll get the Blu-Ray.

[Harlock415]

Didn't Spinal Tap perform for this show too?

[Kurgen1975]

Originally Posted by Harlock415

Didn't Spinal Tap perform for this show too?

They did

[Harlock415]

So it's not quite complete, without Spinal Tap. It's been a long time since I watched it as it aired, but are there other acts missing from this BD?

[Kurgen1975]

Originally Posted by Harlock415

So it's not quite complete, without Spinal Tap. It's been a long time since I watched it as it aired, but are there other acts missing from this BD?

The whole show is:

Metallica - "Enter Sandman", "Sad But True", "Nothing Else Matters"
Extreme - Queen Medley, "Love of My Life" (Gary Cherone & Nuno Bettencourt), "More Than Words" (Gary Cherone & Nuno Bettencourt)
Def Leppard - "Animal", "Let's Get Rocked", "Now I'm Here" (with Brian May)
Bob Geldof - "Too Late God"
Spinal Tap - "The Majesty of Rock"
U2 - "Until the End of the World" - played via satellite from Sacramento, California
Guns N' Roses - "Paradise City", "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
Mango Groove - "Special Star" - played via satellite from Johannesburg, South Africa
Elizabeth Taylor - AIDS Prevention Speech
Freddie Mercury - compilation of various interactions with the audience

With Queen
Queen + Joe Elliott/Slash - "Tie Your Mother Down"
Queen + Roger Daltrey/Tony Iommi - "Heaven and Hell" (intro), "Pinball Wizard" (intro), "I Want It All"
Queen + Zucchero - "Las Palabras de Amor"
Queen + Gary Cherone/Tony Iommi - "Hammer to Fall"
Queen + James Hetfield/Tony Iommi - "Stone Cold Crazy "
Queen + Robert Plant - "Innuendo (including parts of " Kashmir"), "Thank You" (intro), "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
Brian May with Spike Edney - "Too Much Love Will Kill You"
Queen + Paul Young - "Radio Ga Ga"
Queen + Seal - "Who Wants to Live Forever"
Queen + Lisa Stansfield - "I Want to Break Free"
Queen + David Bowie/Annie Lennox - "Under Pressure"
Queen + Ian Hunter/David Bowie/Mick Ronson/Joe Elliot/Phil Collen - "All The Young Dudes"
Queen + David Bowie/Mick Ronson - "Heroes"
David Bowie - "The Lord's Prayer"
Queen + George Michael - "'39"
Queen + George Michael/Lisa Stansfield - "These Are the Days of Our Lives"
Queen + George Michael - "Somebody to Love"
Queen + Elton John/Axl Rose - "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Queen + Elton John/Tony Iommi - "The Show Must Go On"
Queen + Axl Rose - "We Will Rock You"
Queen + Liza Minnelli/Cast - "We Are the Champions"
Queen - "God Save the Queen" (taped outro)

[starman15317]

The U2 performance is on one of the DVDs in the Achtung Baby box set, which I have. It's from the ZooTV tour.

[pro-bassoonist]

The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert Blu-ray PRE-ORDER