Live At Wembley Stadium

Released 9 June 2003 as a double DVD set, and reached no 1 and at least 4 times Platinum status.
Length 111 minutes (disc 1) and 134 minutes (disc 2).

Disc One Tracklisting:
1. One Vision
2. Tie Your Mother Down
3. In The Lap Of The Gods.... Revisited
4. Seven Seas Of Rhye
5. Tear It Up
6. A Kind Of Magic
7. Under Pressure
8. Another One Bites The Dust
9. Who Wants To Live Forever
10. I Want To Break Free
11. Impromptu
12. Guitar Solo
13. Now I'm Here
14. Love Of My Life
15. Is This The World We Created?
16. (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care
17. Hello Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart)
18. Tutti Frutti
19. Gimme Some Lovin'
20. Bohemian Rhapsody
21. Hammer To Fall
22. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
23. Big Spender
24. Radio Ga Ga
25. We Will Rock You
26. Friends Will Be Friends
27. We Are The Champions
28. God Save The Queen

Disc Two Content:
1. A Beautiful Day Documentary
2. Friday Concert Highlights (7 tracks):
1. A Kind Of Magic
2. Freddie Singalong
3. Another One Bites The Dust
4. Tutti Frutti
5. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
6. We Are The Champions (finale) / God Save The Queen
3. Rehearsal Footage (8 tracks):
1. Tie Your Mother Down
2. Seven Seas Of Rhye
3. Tear It Up
4. A Kind Of Magic
5. Now I'm Here
6. I Want To Break Free
7. Piano Introduction
8. Bohemian Rhapsody
4. Multi-Angle Feature (4 tracks):
1. One Vision
2. Under Pressure
3. Now I'm Here
4. We Are The Champions
5. Photo Gallery (with 'A Kind Of Magic')
6. Wembley Towers Demolition (with 'These Are The Days Of Our Lives')
7. Interviews with Brian May and Roger Taylor
8. Interviews with Gavin Taylor and Gerry Stickells

Produced by Simon Lupton and Rhys Thomas
Executive Producer: Jim Beach
Directed by Gavin Taylor
Audio produced for DVD by Justin Shirley-Smith
'It's A Beautiful Day' feature directed by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher

Recorded at Wembley Stadium, London, on 12 July 1986.


This DVD is an expanded reissue of the 'Live At Wembley' video, and was also released as a double album titled 'Live At Wembley 1986', reissued as 'Live At Wembley Stadium', while this DVD itself was reissued in 2011 also as 'Live At Wembley Stadium'. All of the lyrics to the main concert are found on the original album page.

As the menus load on both discs, there is an animation of the Queen Crest, with an excerpt of 'We Will Rock You'. It then features an excerpt of 'A Kind Of Magic' on the menu itself, which features footage shot from the middle of the stadium, with clips from the concert at the top of the screen.


Disc 1 features the full concert, the video footage seems identical to the original VHS version, and the audio content is virtually identical to the album. The DVD loses 7 seconds of audience noise between 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' and 'Radio Ga Ga', but adds about 7 seconds of additional audience noise between 'Radio Ga Ga' and 'We Will Rock You', aswell as additional audience noise between 'Now I'm Here' and 'Love Of My Life' (on the album, it fades out and back in to accommodate the break between discs).

The original video began with an edit of 'Brighton Rock', featured time lapse photography of the stadium being prepared, and also an animation sequence. The DVD loses 'Brighton Rock' (replacing it with the beginning of 'One Vision'), and also the animation. However, the time lapse photography is still present and it also features some additional footage.

The first DVD menu allows you to play the entire concert, select a song, or change audio. On the song selection screen, if you select a track, it plays a 25 second preview of it; if you select it again, the complete version is played. The audio is available in stereo or surround sound, for which the vocals are more prominent through the front speakers than the rear, but there do not seem to be any other changes. The audio selection screen plays an exceprt of 'I Want To Break Free'.


Disc 2 features interviews, a documentary, rehearsal footage, highlights from the Friday night's show, and alternate camera angles. The content is divided into three sub-menus:


The Road To Wembley:
(with footage of Roger and John, and an excerpt of 'Who Wants To Live Forever')
1. Brian & Roger (27 minutes)
this features new interviews with Brian and Roger, intercut with clips of various tracks from the concert, and backstage footage. Brian and Roger are interviewed separately, and discuss the Magic Tour, Wembley, and individual songs
2. Gavin & Gerry (8 minutes)
featuring interviews with Gavin Taylor (director) and Gerry Stickells (tour manager), talking about the techniques and difficulties of filming, with clips of the concert and music from the 'A Kind Of Magic' album
3. A Beautiful Day (28 minutes)
a documentary, featuring footage recorded on the day of the concert itself
4. Wembley Towers (3 minutes)
this features time-lapse photography of Wembley's 'Two Towers' being demolished, intercut with interview snippets with Brian and Roger, and an instrumental edit of 'These Are The Days Of Our Lives'
5. Subtitle Selection
a silent menu with a photograph of the audience, allowing you to select subtitles in French, German, Spanish or Italian.

Unseen Magic:
(with footage of Brian and an excerpt of 'Another One Bites The Dust')
1. Friday Concert (28 minutes)
this is footage from the Friday show on 11 July, which was filmed to rehearse the camera angles and directions. The entire show was released as part of the 2011 reissue.
2. Rehearsals (15 minutes)
this footage is of the band rehearsing a number of songs on a set in London, filmed with a single camera. Many of the songs are edited.
3. Gallery (4 minutes)
a selection of photographs of Wembley, Queen, the audience and memorabilia, featuring the full Highlander version of 'A Kind Of Magic'

Queen Cam
This section allows four songs to be viewed with various camera angles, each one following a different member of the band. The first screen is a menu to select a band member, which plays an excerpt of 'Friends Will Be Friends'. The second screen shows a large photo of whichever band member you selected, playing a different excerpt for each, and allows you to select which song to play, or play all. The four menu excerpts played are 'One Vision' for Brian, 'Under Pressure' for Freddie, 'Now I'm Here' for John and 'We Are The Champions' for Roger.


The DVD was reissued in 2011, retaining the full concert and rehearsal footage, losing the photo gallery and multi-angle feature, replacing the documentary and interviews, and including the full version of the Friday Night concert. Full details can be found on the 'Live At Wembley Stadium' 2011 Reissue page.

1. Interview comments from Rod Stewart, Brian, Harvey Goldsmith and Elton John
   Excerpt of 'It's A Beautiful Day', with footage of Wembley stadium, short clips of Queen, and interview excerpts with Brian, John, Roger and Freddie
   Interview with Edwin Shirley (logistics organiser)
   Excerpt of 'Another One Bites The Dust', footage of equipment being moved, and interview with Gerry Stickells, Roy Bennett (lighting designer)
2. Excerpt of 'The Ring', interview with Harvey Goldsmith, and excerpt of 'Let Me Live' with footage of audiences arriving.
   Interview with Jim Callaghan (security manager), and excerpt of 'Bring Back That Leroy Brown' with further audience footage and the stadium being prepared.
   Interview with Freddie and excerpt of 'Fat Bottomed Girls'.
3. Interviews with Elton John, Rod Stewart, and backstage footage (with excerpt of 'Procession' and 'Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon')
   Interviews with Mel Smith, Status Quo, further backstage footage (with excerpt of 'You Don't Fool Me'), and interview with Roger
   Footage from Harvey Goldsmith's office, footage of the stage being prepared and backstage
4. Footage of Freddie and Roger 'Singalong' rehearsal, further stage preparations, and interviews with Brian, Roger and Freddie
   Footage of several concert tracks, and interviews with Brian, Freddie and John
5. Continued concert footage, and interviews with John, Roger, Freddie and Brian
   Interview with John, further backstage footage, and excerpt of 'My Melancholy Blues'
6. Continued excerpt of 'My Melancholy Blues' and backstage footage
   Interview with Brian, and excerpt of 'It's A Beautiful Day (Reprise)' with footage of Queen from the concert

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