We Will Rock You (video)

Infobox Film
name = We Will Rock You


director = Saul Swimmer
producer = Saul Swimmer, Jim Beach
starring = John Deacon Brian May Freddie Mercury Roger Taylor
music = Queen
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We Will Rock You is a concert film by English band Queen. It was filmed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at the Montreal Forum on November 24 and 25, 1981, to the date ten years before lead singer Freddie Mercury died.

A new official release of the concert (Retitled Queen Rock Montreal) digitally remastered by Queen was released on October 29, 2007 on DVD (by Eaglevision) double CD (by Hollywood Records for the U.S. and Canada and by Parlophone Records for Europe and EMI for the rest of the world) and triple vinyl LP. ^{[http://queenonline.com/news_item.php?article=1672377]}

A special double DVD ('Queen Rock Montreal & Live Aid') included Queen's performance at Live Aid as well as never before seen interviews and rehearsal footage.It is unclear if the royalties from the Live Aid section are going to charity. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray versions were released on December 4, 2007.

List of songs

# We Will Rock You (fast) (May)
# Let Me Entertain You (Mercury)
# Play the Game (Mercury)
# Somebody to Love (Mercury)
# Killer Queen (Mercury)
# I'm in Love With My Car (Taylor)
# Get Down, Make Love (Mercury)
# Save Me (May)
# Now I'm Here (May)
# Dragon Attack (May)
# Now I'm Here (reprise) (May)
# Love of My Life (Mercury)
# Under Pressure (Queen/Bowie)
# Keep Yourself Alive (with impromptu jam before the song) (May)
# Drum Solo/Tympani Solo (Queen/Taylor)
# Guitar Solo/Guitar and Drum Duel (May)
# Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Mercury)
# Jailhouse Rock (Lieber, Stoller)
# Bohemian Rhapsody (Mercury)
# Tie Your Mother Down (May)
# Another One Bites the Dust (Deacon)
# Sheer Heart Attack (Taylor)
# We Will Rock You (May)
# We Are the Champions (Mercury)
# God Save the Queen (tape) (arr. May)

The tracks "Flash's Theme" and "The Hero" (both written by May) were also performed at these concerts but were deleted from the film. However, the tracks do appear on the CD and vinyl issues of Queen Rock Montreal. A commentary by Roger Taylor and Brian May is an optional feature of "Queen Rock Montreal" whereas a commentary by Saul Swimmer (the director/producer) was an optional feature of the DVD re-release of "We Will Rock You".

Tracklisting (Double Disc Live Aid footage)

Live Aid

# "Bohemian Rhapsody"
# "Radio Ga Ga"
# "Hammer To Fall"
# "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
# "We Will Rock You"
# "We Are The Champions"
# "Is This The World We Created"

* all tracks recorded live at Wembley Stadium, 13 July 1985.

Trivia

*The original video is slightly sped up. It would seem that the released material was judiciously 'compressed' to meet a predetermined time limit of 90 minutes. This problem has been rectified on the Queen Rock Montreal version (96 minutes) of this show.
*"Under Pressure" was first performed live here before the release of the "Hot Space" album as the track had appeared on the original US and Canadian album versions of Queen's "Greatest Hits" album.
* Material from both nights were used in the final version. In a number of instances, the footage is a mixture of camera shots from one night and audio recordings from the other night. The original video had an obvious 'blooper' during "Killer Queen" when Mercury could be heard clearly but was seen to not be singing. This mistake has been corrected in the DVD version.
*"Jailhouse Rock" was actually played as part of the first encore, after "Sheer Heart Attack", apart from this and the omission of the "Flash" medley the songs are in the order that they were actually played.
* Producer Saul Swimmer asked Queen to wear the same clothes in both nights, however, the band were fairly angry with the producers, so the band decided to ruin the continuity by constantly changing clothes during the course of the two nights. This was confirmed by Brian May on the Queen Rock Montreal DVD commentary.
* It was finally released in 2007 this time with permission of the band. All the flaws were corrected. The title was also changed. Queen Rock Montreal was chosen as the new official title.

Links

* [http://www.queenrockmontreal.com/ Official Site]