Distributed by
Pioneer LDCE

Cat.no: PLMPB 01161

Cert: E

Running time: 75 minutes

Sides: 2 (CLV)

Year: 1990

Pressing: UK, 1997

Chapters: 21 (10/11)

Sound: Stereo

Presented in Fullscreen

Price: £24.99

Extras : None

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Director and producer:

Gavin Taylor

Featuring:

Freddie Mercury (Lead Vocals)
Brian May (Guitar and Vocals)
John Deacon (Bass)
Roger Taylor (Drums)

Queen Live At Wembley 86 was filmed in July of that year, and marked their first ever Wembley Stadium dates on a UK tour that played to 400,000 people, breaking all previous attendance records. 150,000 of those people made up the entire Wembley audience over two nights alone.

At the time, the show used the largest lighting set-up ever assembled for a live show, with a 160-foot wide stage, filling one entire end of Wembley Stadium. With the stage being the biggest ever there, supports had to be bored into the concrete foundations of the stadium!

The set's construction was filmed using 35mm time-lapse photography during the week before the show, and some of this is featured over the instrumental first track. During the concerts, cameras covered every single angle of the stadium including aerial shots taken from a helicopter.

The 75-minute recording of their "Real Magic" tour covers 21 outstanding tracks, and the band can be seen to be enjoying themselves in each one.

Whether you chant along, arms swinging and clapping to Radio Ga Ga, or if you choose to remember days gone by when you spent a 1992 Valentine's Day party, like everyone else, standing atop a kitchen sink at University shouting along to I Want To Break Free (whoops! gave that one away there), or if you just want to find out whether the last words sung by Freddie at the end of One Vision really are "Fried Chicken" (!), then this disc is for you.

Picture quality is good and sharp, and everything you'd expect from a live concert recording. Sound rocks big-time as you'd expect, and so overall there's plenty to shout about regarding this release.

For anyone wondering what certificate 'E' is, it stands for exempt, although like a number of music releases on video, some bad language does creep in. In this one, it's a case of 'Spot the F-word'...

There are 21 chapters, one for each song, and the top-notch track listing is as follows :

Side One

1. Brighton Rock
2. One Vision
3. Tie Your Mother Down
4. In The Lap of the Gods
5. Seven Seas of Rhye
6. A Kind of Magic
7. Yeah Yeah Yeah
8. Under Pressure
9. Another One Bites the Dust
10. Who Wants To Live Forever

Side Two

11. I Want To Break Free
12. Is This The World We Created
13. Tutti Frutti
14. Bohemian Rhapsody
15. Hammer To Fall
16. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
17. Radio Ga Ga
18. We Will Rock You
19. Friends Will Be Friends
20. We Are The Champions
21. God Save The Queen

With The Freddie Mercury Tribute concert already released on laserdisc, and with Box Of Flix and Queen Live in Rio due to be released later in the year, Pioneer is serving Queen fans very well indeed. It could almost be considered a kind of magic...

Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 1997.