| City: | London, UK |
| Venue: | Wembley Arena |
| Date: | May 13, 1978 |
| Presumed setlist: | We Will Rock You (slow/fast), Brighton Rock, Somebody To Love, White Queen, Death On Two Legs, Killer Queen, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, I'm In Love With My Car, Get Down Make Love, The Millionaire Waltz, You're My Best Friend, Spread Your Wings, It's Late, Now I'm Here, Love Of My Life, '39, My Melancholy Blues, White Man, The Prophet's Song, Guitar Solo, The Prophet's Song (reprise), Liar, Bohemian Rhapsody, Keep Yourself Alive, Tie Your Mother Down, Sheer Heart Attack, Jailhouse Rock, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen |
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This is the last show of the News Of The World tour. The giant crown lighting rig would soon be disassembled, and parts of it would be used for ELO's space ship lighting rig, which can be seen on their "Live At Wembley '78" DVD. The band are clearly having much fun during this set. They revive White Queen for the last night's sake, and it turns out this would be its last live performance. Freddie mentions before hand that they're a bit unrehearsed (despite the fact that they ran it several times yesterday before the show). Roger almost misses his big drum queue at the end of the instrumental section, but he manages to keep it together! After a great version of Somebody To Love, someone shouts, "Keep Yourself Alive!" Freddie reacts, saying, "Are you kidding? You know we're gonna do that song, don't you? So stick around." He then starts to introduce Death On Two Legs, dedicating it to "the British music press who has taken a lot of beating the last couple of nights from us." He also adds that "they're fucking wankers" and that they "eat shit in the bath." Clearly Freddie felt well opening up to the hometown audience, although before then it was no secret that Queen and the press did not get along very well. Freddie mistakenly sings the second verse at the beginning of '39, and takes a second to correct himself. After the song, he says, "While Brian's taking some time off to write a few new numbers for the next album, John, Roger, and myself would like to do a song entitled My Melancholy Blues." It's Late and White Man are superb versions tonight. This is the last time Brian would play Three Blind Mice during his guitar solo. He also played it at the famous Hammersmith Odeon and Earls Court shows, among others. The band swap the encores for the last night, and it is a major step for them as a band. This would be the first time they'd finish the show with We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions, as they had finally garnered the confidence to finish their show with their own material (with the exception of the odd time they encored with See What A Fool I've Been in earlier years). At the end of the show, Roger trashes his drum kit, something which he didn't often do. With the exception of resurrecting Seven Seas Of Rhye for the Works tour in 1984, the Queen II album would be all but forgotten by the band for the remainder of their concert career. Tonight would also be the final performances of Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, The Millionaire Waltz, My Melancholy Blues, White Man, and The Prophet's Song. Stone Cold Crazy (which was seemingly omitted from the last few shows in favour of Liar) would also be dropped from the setlist, but it would return in 1984, but as an abridged version merging into a snippet of Great King Rat. |
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| Recording length: | 79 minutes (1 CD, incomplete) |
| Quality: | B |
| Source: | Audience |
| Lineage: | AUD > ? > CDR (x) |
| Track listing: | Somebody To Love, White Queen, Death On Two Legs, Killer Queen, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, I'm In Love With My Car, Get Down Make Love, The Millionaire Waltz, You're My Best Friend, Spread Your Wings, It's Late, Now I'm Here, Love Of My Life, '39, My Melancholy Blues, White Man, The Prophet's Song, Guitar Solo [cut] |
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This recording has a very warm atmosphere, as it's the last gig of the tour, and at home in London. |
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