The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert

I've watched it a few times, its pretty entertaining...

Hetfield doing Stone Cold Crazy with Queen and Tony Iommi was a highlight...

Never thought i'd see Axl Rose and Elton John in the same building.... let alone singing toghter!

Heres the track list;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury_Tribute_Concert

With Queen

• Queen + Joe Elliott/Slash - Tie Your Mother Down
  
• Queen + Roger Daltrey/Tony Iommi - Heaven and Hell (intro), Pinball Wizard (intro), I Want It All
  
• Queen + Zucchero - Las Palabras De Amor
  
• Queen + Gary Cherone (with Tony Iommi) - Hammer to Fall
  
• Queen + James Hetfield (with Tony Iommi) - Stone Cold Crazy
  
• Queen + Robert Plant - Innuendo (with excerpts from Kashmir), Thank You (intro), Crazy Little Thing Called Love
  
• Brian May with Spike Edney - Too Much Love Will Kill You
  
• Queen + Paul Young - Radio Ga Ga
  
• Queen + Seal - Who Wants to Live Forever
  
• Queen + Lisa Stansfield - I Want to Break Free
  
• Queen + David Bowie/Annie Lennox - Under Pressure
  
• Queen + Ian Hunter/David Bowie/Mick Ronson/Joe Elliot/Phil Collen - All The Young Dudes
  
• Queen + David Bowie/Mick Ronson - Heroes/The Lord's Prayer
  
• Queen + George Michael - '39
  
• Queen + George Michael/Lisa Stansfield - These Are the Days of Our Lives
  
• Queen + George Michael - Somebody to Love
  
• Queen + Elton John/Axl Rose - Bohemian Rhapsody
  
• Queen + Elton John (with Tony Iommi) - The Show Must Go On
  
• Queen + Axl Rose - We Will Rock You
  
• Queen + Liza Minnelli/Cast - We Are the Champions
  

Def Leppard was there, right? Wasn't that the first time they ever played live with Vivian Campbell? I remember hating it. They played "Let's Get Rocked" first, and I couldn't stand Vivian's back-up vocals. He's better now, he knows how to harmonize with the guys better, but that performance saddened me. They did a great version of "Tie Your Mother Down," though.

Gary Cherone and Extreme did some good stuff, too.

I remember watching this show when it aired on MTV... some very cool stuff. They did eventually release some of the "highlights" from the concert as a VHS video but I didn't buy it because I was annoyed that Spinal Tap's appearance wasn't on the tape.

Eyesore wrote:

Def Leppard was there, right? Wasn't that the first time they ever played live with Vivian Campbell? I remember hating it. They played "Let's Get Rocked" first, and I couldn't stand Vivian's back-up vocals. He's better now, he knows how to harmonize with the guys better, but that performance saddened me. They did a great version of "Tie Your Mother Down," though.

Gary Cherone and Extreme did some good stuff, too.

I only have the songs that Queen performed with guests.

The Ian Hunter/Mick Ronson/David Bowie/Def Leppard/Queen collaboration of All The Young Dudes was probably the greatest moment of that concert. But sadly the best performance was left off of the DVD, I'm talking about Extreme's Queen Medley that went for about 15 minutes. It will knock your socks off, its unbelievable. Gary Cherone sings his ass off and Nuno Bettencourt shreds right the way through it plus the vocal interaction between Gary, Nuno and Pat during Fat Bottomed Girls is insane!

Extreme - Queen Medley Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smrPI9w4Nng

Extreme - Queen Medley Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Gk-9diM4o

Elton & Axl doing 'Bohemian Rhapsody' was exquisite. Still rocks my socks every time I hear it...

actually David Bowie and Annie Lennox singing 'Under Pressure' was really awesome as well.


Freddie was such an awesome vocalist. Saw a documentary on him a few months back, was really cool but it made me sad too.

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The Ian Hunter/Mick Ronson/David Bowie/Def Leppard/Queen collaboration of All The Young Dudes was probably the greatest moment of that concert. But sadly the best performance was left off of the DVD, I'm talking about Extreme's Queen Medley that went for about 15 minutes. It will knock your socks off, its unbelievable. Gary Cherone sings his ass off and Nuno Bettencourt shreds right the way through it plus the vocal interaction between Gary, Nuno and Pat during Fat Bottomed Girls is insane

Finally, someone besides me who remembers Extreme's Queen Medley! I was blown away!!! When I got the DVD I spent days looking for hidden features hoping that would be on there! I was not an Extreme fan until that day!!!

I'm not familiar with Extreme but, that was a great rendition of queen's material...and the elton john/axl performance was really cool too, and annie lennox and david bowie...saw most of the videos on youtube.

Is Extreme's Queen Medley on YouTube?

yes ratpoison put up both links.

Extreme - Queen Medley Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smrPI9w4Nng

Extreme - Queen Medley Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Gk-9diM4o

Watch em for that Kinda Magic!

AWESOME!!!

Thanks for posting those rattpoison!

I still say that Spinal Tap was the highlight....

That was one of those great days in music history where artists get together for a great cause. I remember watching the concert in it's entirety. I wasn't able to watch the whole Live Aid thing in 1985 when it happened, because we didn't have cable at the time. I remember seeing some of it over at a friends house, but it was a long event. The Freddy Mercury tribute was the closest thing to the Live Aid event in 1985.

Eyesore wrote:

Def Leppard was there, right? Wasn't that the first time they ever played live with Vivian Campbell? I remember hating it. They played "Let's Get Rocked" first, and I couldn't stand Vivian's back-up vocals. He's better now, he knows how to harmonize with the guys better, but that performance saddened me. They did a great version of "Tie Your Mother Down," though.

Gary Cherone and Extreme did some good stuff, too.

Def Leppard's version of "Now I'm Here" was even better. I actually have that live performance off of their "Tonight" single.

I wonder why they never released the entire show, I remember buying the DVD and was annoyed that it was missing Def Leppard, Mick Ronson and Extreme set, yet they throw in rehearsal footage, still a good DVD but they could have made it into a great DVD.

Still it was a great tribute to Freddie Mercury.

manny wrote:

I wonder why they never released the entire show, I remember buying the DVD and was annoyed that it was missing Def Leppard, Mick Ronson and Extreme set, yet they throw in rehearsal footage, still a good DVD but they could have made it into a great DVD.

Still it was a great tribute to Freddie Mercury.

Well, I can't tell you why there is stuff missing from this concert, but it's pretty sad regarding the reasons why there is stuff missing from Live Aid in 1985. Supposedly whomever's responsibility it was to come up with the footage from the Live Aid show had to literally rummage through boxes (I think many were unmarked) to find the footage that they currently have. I guess it was such a mess, and so unorganized, that those who distributed it felt like they had enough. They basically got what they could from the tapes, edited out the commercials, and we have the best version that we'll ever see. There are so many glaring omissions from what was a gigantic setlist, it's unbelievable. MTV should be absolutely ashamed of itself. It was deemed to be such a ground breaking concert for humanity, and then this was how it was treated.

...I often get this visual that the basement of MTV looks like something out of Raiders of the Lost Ark at the end, when they sandwich in the Ark of the Covenant with the million other crates.

01 STATUS QUO- Don't Waste My Time [04:34]
02 STYLE COUNCIL- You're the Best Thing [05:00]
03 STYLE COUNCIL- Big Boss Groove [03:55]
04 BOOMTOWN RATS- Rat Trap [05:37]
05 ULTRAVOX- Reap The Wild Wind [02:58]
06 ULTRAVOX- One Small Day [03:49]
07 SPANDAU BALLET- Virgin [04:40]
08 NIK KERSHAW- Wide Boy [03:25]
09 NIK KERSHAW- Don Quixote [04:48]
10 NIK KERSHAW- The Riddle [04:13]
11 SADE- Why Can't We Live Together [05:35]
12 SADE- Is It a Crime [06:10]
13 STING- Driven To Tears [03:17]
14 STING- Message In A Bottle [04:32]
15 PHIL COLLINS- In The Air Tonight [04:45]
16 STING + PHIL COLLINS- Long Long Way To Go [03:30]
17 BRYAN FERRY- Sensation [04:31]
18 BRYAN FERRY- Boys And Girls [04:31]
19 BRYAN ADAMS- [04:12] Tears Are Not Enough
20 BRYAN ADAMS- [05:34] Cuts Like A Knife
21 THE BEACH BOYS- [02:31] California Girls
22 THE BEACH BOYS- [03:07] Help Me, Rhonda
23 GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS + BO DIDDLEY- [05:34] Who Do You Love
24 GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS- [07:02] The Sky Is Crying
25 SIMPLE MINDS- [03:00] Promised You a Miracle (The feed was lost during the song. The broadcast time is only 02:09)
26 BERNARD WATSON- All I Really Want To Do (Bob Dylan Cover)
27 BERNARD WATSON- Interview (Original B. Watson song)
28 JOAN BAEZ- [02:34] We Are The World
29 THE PRETENDERS- [03:35] Time The Avenger
30 THE PRETENDERS- [03:15] Message of Love
31 THE WHO- My Generation [01:40] The BBC blew a fuze during the two first numbers by The Who.
32 THE WHO- Pinball Wizard [03:02] The band didn't stop playing but the broadcast was interrupted.
33 ELTON JOHN- I'm Still Standing [03:20]
34 ELTON JOHN- Can I Get a Witness [03:42]
35 ASHFORD & SIMPSON- [04:56] Solid
36 KOOL & THE GANG (pre-recorded live video)- [02:01] Stand up and Sing
37 KOOL & THE GANG (pre-recorded live video)- [03:11] Cherish
38 MADONNA- [05:17] Love Makes The World Go Round
39 TOM PETTY & The HEARTBREAKERS- [04:46] The Waiting
40 TOM PETTY & The HEARTBREAKERS- [05:42] Rebels
41 THE HOOTERS- [04:37] And We Danced
42 THE HOOTERS- [05:44] All You Zombies
43 THE FOUR TOPS- [02:42] Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)
44 THE FOUR TOPS- [01:43] Bernadette
45 THE FOUR TOPS- [01:20] It's The Same Old Song Motown Medley
46 THE FOUR TOPS- [01:36] Reach Out I'll Be There Motown Medley
47 THE FOUR TOPS- [02:28] I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) Motown Medley
48 BILLY OCEAN- [04:08] Caribbean Queen
49 BILLY OCEAN- [03:38] Loverboy
50 BLACK SABBATH- [04:18] Children Of The Grave
51 BLACK SABBATH- [07:44] Iron Man
52 RICK SPRINGFIELD- [03:37] Love Somebody
53 RICK SPRINGFIELD- [04:04] State Of The Heart
54 RICK SPRINGFIELD- [02:32] Human Touch
55 CROSBY, STILLS & NASH- [04:57] Southern Cross
56 CROSBY, STILLS & NASH- [08:05] Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
57 JUDAS PRIEST- [07:16] You've Got Another Thing Comin'
58 SANTANA- [03:22] Brotherhood
59 SANTANA- [02:11] Primera Invasion
60 SANTANA- [05:14] Open Invitation
61 SANTANA + PAT METHENY- [07:32] By The Pool/Right Now
62 THE CARS- [03:02] You Might Think
63 THE CARS- [04:04] Drive
64 NEIL YOUNG- [04:45] Sugar Mountain
65 NEIL YOUNG- [04:22] Helpless
66 NEIL YOUNG- [04:49] Powderfinger
67 POWER STATION- [04:20] Murderess
68 POWER STATION- [06:00] Get It On
69 THOMPSON TWINS- [07:59] Hold Me Now
70 PHIL COLLINS- [03:45] Against All Odds
71 LED ZEPPELIN- [04:43] Rock & Roll
72 LED ZEPPELIN- [05:20] Whole Lotta Love
73 LED ZEPPELIN- [09:19] Stairway To Heaven
74 CROSBY - STILLS - NASH (& YOUNG)- [03:33] Only Love Can Break your Heart
75 CROSBY - STILLS - NASH (& YOUNG)- [03:09] Daylight Again
76 DURAN DURAN- [04:07] A view to a Kill
77 PATTI LABELLE- [02:51] New Attitude
78 PATTI LABELLE- [02:20] Stir It Up
79 PATTI LABELLE- [02:43] Over The Rainbow
80 PATTI LABELLE- [02:44] Why Can't I Get It Over
81 HALL & OATES- [04:27] Out Of Touch
82 HALL & OATES w/EDDIE KENDRICKS & DAVID RUFFIN- [02:41] The Way You Do The Things You Do (voc : E. KENDRICKS)
83 MICK JAGGER- [03:25] Lonely At The Top
84 BOB DYLAN + RON WOOD + KEITH RICHARDS- [04:34] Ballad Of Hollis Brown
85 BOB DYLAN + RON WOOD + KEITH RICHARDS- [03:36] When The Ship Comes In

Total: 6 hours missing

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Never thought i'd see Axl Rose and Elton John in the same building.... let alone singing toghter

Im not surprised, Axl idolized Elton John in the book Get In The Ring by Mick Wall it mentions that Axl idolized musicians like Elton John and Billy Joel

Has this show ever been released on DVD? That would be killer

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Def Leppard's version of "Now I'm Here" was even better. I actually have that live performance off of their "Tonight" single

That is a great song!

Eyesore wrote:

Gary Cherone and Extreme did some good stuff, too.

Gary should be singing with Queen not Paul Rodgers IMO.

rattpoison wrote:

The Ian Hunter/Mick Ronson/David Bowie/Def Leppard/Queen collaboration of All The Young Dudes was probably the greatest moment of that concert.

Wasn't that Mick Ronsons last live gig? It was cool seeing Mick & Bowie also.......