Queen - Live in Milan (14th September 1984)

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Tour: The Works | Leg 1: Europe
Date: September 14th, 1984
Venue: Palazzo dello Sport
City: Milan, Italy
Attendance: ca. 9,000

Audio Quality: A-
Lineage: 2xc90 Sony UX pos.II (chrome) tape cassettes - unknown audience (possibly not too high) gen. tape - TEAC W-865R - Audacity 2.1.3 wav file aquisition and tracks splitting - FLAC Frontend flac files encoding (level=5), flac files fingerprints - mkwACT whole file set signature

The pictures were taken by Unknown Photographers.

This is the first of two nights in Milan, Queen's only ever visit to Italy in their original line up. Having had a few days off, Freddie's voice sounds quite good, probably his best since the second night in Birmingham two weeks prior to this show. As usually on this tour, the atmosphere is quite warm and allows for lots of improvisation by Freddie (including the first few lines of 'Mustapha' during the Impromptu as the audience has started chanting for the song before), by Brian (who noodles around on both guitars during the brief acoustic set) and the entire band, not just during the usual songs but who also intiate a quite extended intro jam before the oldies medley with everyone joining in. Despite Freddie doing not too bad with the song tonight (it's still far from flawless), the band decide to drop 'Staying Power' from the setlist after tonight, probably a result from Freddie struggling with it and the band thinking the song isn't really necessary on the tour anymore.

Snippets at this show: 'Mustapha' (during Freddie's Impromptu) and 'Machines (Or 'Back to Humans')' (during Spike's keyboard solo).

00:00:00 - 01. Machines (Or 'Back to Humans') [tape]
00:02:16 - 02. Tear It Up
00:04:04 - 03. Tie Your Mother Down
00:07:56 - 04. Under Pressure
00:11:18 - 05. Somebody to Love
00:15:39 - 06. Killer Queen
00:17:41 - 07. Seven Seas of Rhye
00:19:00 - 08. Keep Yourself Alive
00:21:29 - 09. Liar
00:24:07 - 10. Impromptu
00:26:22 - 11. It's a Hard Life
00:31:01 - 12. Staying Power [last performance]
00:33:03 - 13. Dragon Attack
00:37:44 - 14. Now I'm Here
00:43:04 - 15. Is This the World We Created...?
00:46:09 - Acoustic Noodling
00:47:08 - 16. Love of My Life
00:50:49 - 17. Band Improv
00:51:45 - 18. Stone Cold Crazy
00:52:50 - 19. Great King Rat
00:53:38 - 20. Keyboard Solo
00:57:07 - 21. Guitar Solo
01:00:32 - 22. Brighton Rock (ending)
01:02:01 - 23. Another One Bites the Dust
01:06:19 - 24. Hammer to Fall
01:11:42 - 25. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
01:17:34 - 26. Bohemian Rhapsody
01:23:09 - 27. Radio Ga Ga
E N C O R E
01:31:09 - 28. I Want to Break Free
01:34:26 - 29. Jailhouse Rock
E N C O R E
01:38:55 - 30. We Will Rock You
01:41:19 - 31. We Are the Champions
01:44:50 - 32. God Save the Queen [tape]

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