The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert
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The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert was an open air concert on Easter Monday, April 20 1992 at London's Wembley Stadium, televised live. The profit of the concert was used to launch The Mercury Phoenix Trust.
In February 1992 at the annual Brit awards ceremony, Brian May and Roger Taylor announced plans for an open air concert to celebrate Freddie Mercury's life. The tickets went on sale the next day and all 72,000 tickets sold out in just two hours, even though nobody knew who would play apart from remaining members of Queen.
This show marked bassist John Deacon's final concert with the band, except for one live appearance in 1997 with May, Taylor and Elton John.
In April 2002 the concert was released on DVD and entered the UK charts at number 1. The DVD release gained strong criticism, because the whole first half was not included.
The performances included:
- Metallica - Enter Sandman, Sad But True, Nothing Else Matters
- Extreme - Queen Medley, Love Of My Life, More Than Words
- Def Leppard - Animal, Let's Get Rocked, Now I'm Here (w/Brian May)
- Bob Geldof - Too Late God
- Spinal Tap - The Majesty of Rock
- Guns N' Roses - Paradise City, Knockin' On Heaven's Door
- Elizabeth Taylor - Speech
During the first part of the concert, several videoclips were shown, while the roadies changed the stage for the following act's performance. Note: "Innuendo" was not included on the DVD, at request of Robert Plant, explaining that his voice was in very poor condition, and most agree it was off. Also, when the concert aired on MTV, U2 dedicated a live performance via satellite from California of "Until The End Of The World" to Freddie.
- Queen and Joe Elliott/Slash - Tie Your Mother Down
- Queen and Roger Daltrey (with Tony Iommi) - Heaven and Hell (intro), Pinball Wizard (intro), I Want It All
- Queen and Zucchero - Las Palabras de Amor
- Queen and Gary Cherone (with Tony Iommi) - Hammer To Fall
- Queen and James Hetfield (with Tony Iommi) - Stone Cold Crazy
- Queen and Robert Plant - Innuendo (with excerpts from Kashmir), Thank You (intro), Crazy Little Thing Called Love
- Queen (Brian May with Spike Edney) - Too Much Love Will Kill You
- Queen and Paul Young - Radio Ga Ga
- Queen and Seal - Who Wants To Live Forever
- Queen and Lisa Stansfield - I Want To Break Free
- Queen and David Bowie/Annie Lennox - Under Pressure
- Queen and Ian Hunter/David Bowie/Mick Ronson/Joe Elliot/Phil Collen - All The Young Dudes
- Queen and David Bowie/Mick Ronson - Heroes/The Lord's Prayer
- Queen and George Michael - '39
- Queen and George Michael/Lisa Stansfield - These Are The Days Of Our Lives
- Queen and George Michael - Somebody to Love
- Queen and Elton John/Axl Rose - Bohemian Rhapsody
- Queen and Elton John (with Tony Iommi) - The Show Must Go On
- Queen and Axl Rose - We Will Rock You
- Queen and Liza Minnelli/Cast - We Are The Champions
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