The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert [DVD] [2013] [NTSC]

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The AIDS charity concert staged by the surviving members of Queen on April 20, 1992, at Wembley Stadium was an appropriate send-off for the band's late lead singer, Freddie Mercury, who had succumbed to the disease five months earlier. The US release also omitted Bob Geldof's performance of "Too Late God", and Zucchero's performance of " Las Palabras de Amor". They recorded just one more song after that, "No One But You", the only Queen song to have had no input from Freddie at all. In any case the concert is great, wonderful to relive it, however as I suspected, it is not complete. Brian May decides to debut his "Too Much Love Will Kill You" (a Freddie sung version would be released in 1995 on the "Made In Heaven" album.

Initially thought to be a European only release, Queen Productions along with EMI/Parlophone have done North American fans a favor by making an NTSC region free version. The concert was a tribute to Queen's lead vocalist, Freddie Mercury, who died of AIDS on 24 November 1991. Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse. We offer great value books on a wide range of subjects and we have grown steadily to become one of the UK's leading retailers of second-hand books.The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness was a benefit concert held on Easter Monday, 20 April 1992, at Wembley Stadium in London, England, for an audience of 72,000. The show marked bassist John Deacon's final full-length concert with Queen (save a short live appearance with Brian May, Roger Taylor and Elton John in 1997). Regardless, for the quality alone I recommend purchasing the DVD BUT keep your VHS copies as it has more of the songs. But also the calmer moments with among others Paul Young ("Radio Ga Ga"), David Bowie and Eurythmics-singer Annie Lennox ("Under Pressure"), Elton John ("Bohemian Rhapsody", "The Show Must Go On") and very special George Michael ("'39", "These Are The Days Of Our Life", "Somebody To Love") do convince.

There are so many great moments the ease by which you can select a particular track make the purchase of the Blu Ray worth it. For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered. Elizabeth Taylor then gave an AIDS prevention speech, which was followed by a compilation of Mercury's various interactions with audiences.The concert was broadcast live on television and radio to 76 countries around the world from the USA to Russia. 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.