City:	London, UK
Venue:	Wembley Arena
Date:	September 4, 1984

Setlist:	Machines (tape), Tear It Up, Tie Your Mother Down, Under Pressure, Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, It's A Hard Life, Staying Power, Dragon Attack, Now I'm Here, Is This The World We Created?, Love Of My Life, Stone Cold Crazy, Great King Rat, keyboard/guitar solos, Brighton Rock (ending), Hammer To Fall, Another One Bites The Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free, Jailhouse Rock, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen
Queen played four shows at Wembley Arena early in the tour, all of which were properly recorded by the band, according to the July '89 issue of Record Collector magazine. However, sources close to the band have since denied this claim. At the point of the show where he dispels the rumours about the band breaking up, Freddie says, "If you want us to be here, we'll be here every night. Otherwise forget it." Just before the big vocal intro to It's A Hard Life, tonight Freddie says, "I'm gonna try the fucking thing." He hits the initial high notes, but he's clearly starting to struggle with it now. Brian says a few words before the acoustic portion of the evening. "It's very nice to be back. We spend a lot of our time going all around the world, to all the four corners of this strange place that we live in, and when we come back here it's... feels something special. I don't know what it is. It's home. We're kind of more exposed and naked than anywhere else. I don't know what it is, but it's great. So this is something to listen to if you wanna cool down for a sec." He then plays the intro to Is This The World We Created. After the audience sing the second verse of Love Of My Life on their own, Freddie happily says, "Wunderbar!" Tonight for the first time he sings "I still fucking love you" before the guitar break, something which he'd do pretty often from this point onward. He adds, "You better believe it." Most of the lights go out at some point during the guitar solo. After the Brighton Rock bit, Freddie inquires, "Something happen to our lights or something? Are the lights okay?" He then addresses the audience. "These million-dollar lights are fucked up! The honest truth, can you believe it, we pay all this million pounds, or whatever you read about, for the lights, and there's one plug that works the whole damn thing. And that's got a fuse or something." The show must go on, and the band have to make due with what few lights still work. "Well, we have three more here, and three over there, so... okay, we have Hammer To Fall!" Before Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Freddie performs a short improvised version of The Crickets' "Not Fade Away", like he did in Stockholm '82, but this time Roger adds some nice drum fills between lines. The last line is, "I'm gonna get you, I don't know the words." Before launching into Crazy, he asks his long-standing head of the crew, "Did you tune this guitar, Ratty?" He jokingly adds, "Or I'll kill you!" The band really let it rip in Jailhouse Rock. It's surely one of the strongest, rocking versions of the song they ever played. Brian does some nice Jeff Beck-like whammy bar work in his solo. The four pictures from this show were taken by Yvonne Lindenhof and submitted by Ducksoup. The second set of could be from any of the four nights at Wembley Arena. The first five were taken by Martin de Jong. The last one is either from this night or the following night. These pro pics could be from any of the four nights as well: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Another set of photos is on repfoto.com, visible only to registered members. This reviewer clearly doesn't think too much of Queen overall, and even mentions the allegations of Freddie's coke habit: http://www.queencuttings.com

Recording length:	106 minutes (2 CD, complete)
Quality:	A-
Source:	Audience
Lineage:	"Not Fade Away" (Gypsy Eye) silvers
Track listing:	Machines (tape), Tear It Up, Tie Your Mother Down, Under Pressure, Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, It's A Hard Life, Staying Power, Dragon Attack, Now I'm Here, Is This The World We Created?, Love Of My Life, Stone Cold Crazy, Great King Rat, keyboard/guitar solos, Brighton Rock (ending), Hammer To Fall, Another One Bites The Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free, Jailhouse Rock, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen
This bootleg has digital clicks all over the place and the usual Gypsy Eye crackling sound. The tape itself is a bit distorted, and was surely recorded very close to the stage.

Recording length:	104 minutes (2 CD, complete)
Quality:	B+
Source:	Audience
Lineage:	AUD > Master Cassette > CDR (x) > ? > MP3
Track listing:	Machines (tape), Tear It Up, Tie Your Mother Down, Under Pressure, Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, It's A Hard Life, Staying Power, Dragon Attack, Now I'm Here [cut], Is This The World We Created?, Love Of My Life, Stone Cold Crazy, Great King Rat, keyboard/guitar solos, Brighton Rock (ending), Hammer To Fall, Another One Bites The Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free [cut], Jailhouse Rock, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen
An inferior source exists from this show, and the taper only leaked an mp3 copy before disappearing into the night. The cut in Now I'm Here is apparently filled in with a third audience source.

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