Live In Rio
Released 13 May 1985.
Running Time 60 mins approx
Recorded at the Rock In Rio festival, Rio De Janiero,
Brazil, on 12th and 19th January 1985. The shows began at around
2:00 in the morning.
Directed by Aloysio Legey
Produced by Jim Beach
Sound Produced by James 'Trip' Khalaf
Additional Keyboards and Guitars - Spike Edney
Machines
Click here for the original song details. Length 0:32
This was a backing track, played at the beginning of the concert
only; only the drums at the end were performed live.
Lyrics:
(Machines, machines,
machines, machines, machines)
Tie Your Mother
Down
Click here for the original song details. Length 3:42
Excerpts of this track appear on the 'Rare Live' video
Lyrics:
Oooh, yeah, alright
Get your party gown
Get your pigtail down
Get your heart beating, baby
Got my timing right
Got my act all tight
It's gotta be tonight my little schoolbabe
Mamma says you don't
Daddy says you won't
And I'm bottling up inside
Ain't no way I'm gonna lose out this time, hey
Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down
Lock your daddy out of doors
I don't need him nosing around
Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down
Give me all your love tonight
You're such a dirty louse
Go get out of my house
That's all I ever get from you
And your family ties, in fact I never heard
A single little civil word from those guys
But you know I don't give a light
Gonna make out all right
Got a sweetheart hand
Put a stop to all that
Shouting and fighting
Going on, come on
Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down
Take your little brother swimming
With a brick, that's all right
Tie your mother down, yeah
Tie your mother down
She ain't no friend of mine, go
Ain't no friend of mine
Oooh, your mummy and your daddy gonna
Plague me till I die
They don't understand it
I'm just a peace loving guy
Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down
Big, big, big, big, big, big daddy out of doors
Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down
Give me all your love tonight
All your love tonight, give it to me, over here
All your love tonight, everybody
All your love tonight, hey
All your love tonight
Hey
Freddie: Hello Brazil, hello Rio. To the
band
Seven Seas Of
Rhye
Click here for the original song details. Length 1:09
This track segues into 'Keep Yourself Alive'
Lyrics:
Freddie: Is everybody happy?
Fear me you Lords and Lady preachers
I descend upon your earth from the skies
I command your very souls you unbelievers
Bring before me what is mine
The seven seas of rhye, yeah
Fear me you Lords and privy councillors
I stand before you naked to the eyes
I will destroy any man who dares abuse my trust
Bring before me what is mine
The seven seas of rhye, yeah
Sister - I live and lie for you
Mister - do and I'll die
You are mine I possess you
Make love to you forever, ever, ever
Keep Yourself
Alive
Click here for the original song details. Length 2:45
This track segues from 'Seven Seas Of Rhye' and into 'Liar'
Lyrics:
Come on, keep yourself,
everybody
Everybody
Keep yourself, keep yourself, keep yourself alive
Keep yourself, keep yourself, keep yourself alive, yeah
Hey, hey, hey
I was told a million times of all the troubles in my way
Might he grow a little wiser, little better every day
But if I crossed a million rivers, rode a million miles
Still be where I started, bread and butter for a smile
Sold a million mirrors in a shop in alley way
But I never saw my face in any window any day
They say your folks are telling you be a superstar
Tell you just be satisfied, stay right where you are
Keep yourself alive, keep yourself alive
All you people keep yourself alive
Hey
Yeah, yeah
Well I loved a million women in a belladonic haze
And I ate a million dinners brought to me on silver trays
Give me everything I need, feed my body and my soul
Grow a little bigger, maybe that can be my goal
Told a million times of all the people in my way
How I'd have to keep on trying and get better every day
But if I crossed a million rivers, rode a million miles
Still be where I started, same as when I started
Keep yourself alive, keep yourself alive
All you people keep yourself alive
Liar
Click here for the original song details. Length 1:51
This track segues from 'Keep Yourself Alive'
Lyrics:
I have sinned dear father
Father I have sinned
Try and help me father
Won't you let me in
Liar, oh everybody deceives me
Liar, why don't you leave me
Sire, I have stolen
Stolen many times
Raised my voice in anger
When I know I never should
Liar, oh nobody believes me
Liar, why don't you leave me alone
Liar
Liar
Liar
Liar
Ooh, they won't leave me alone
They won't leave me alone
Yeah
Alone
It's A Hard Life
Click here for the original song details. Length 4:17
This track is followed by a Freddie Singalong, of length 0:18.
Click here for other singalongs
Lyrics:
Don't want my freedom
There's no reason for ending with a broken heart
This is a tricky situation
I've only got myself to blame
It's just a simple fact of life
But it happens to everyone
You win, you lose
Da, da, da, da, fall apart
Oh yeah, I fell in love
But now you say it's over I'm falling apart
Yeah, yeah
It's a hard life
To be true lovers together
To love and live forever in each others hearts
It's a long hard fight
To learn to care for each other
To trust in one another right from the start
When you're in love
I try and mend the broken pieces
I try to fight back the tears
It's just a simple case of mind
But it happens to everyone
How it hurts deep inside
When your love has cut you down to size
Life is tough on your own
Now I'm waiting for something to fall from the skies
I'm waiting for love
Yeah, it's a hard life
Two lovers together
To love and live forever in each others hearts
It's a long hard fight
To learn to care for each other
To trust in one another right from the start
When you're in love
Yes it's a hard life
In a world that's filled with sorrow
There are people searching for love in everyway
It's a long hard fight
But I'll always live for tomorrow
I'll look back on myself and say I did it for love
Yes I did it for love
For love
Ooh, oh, oh, I did it for love
Oooohh
(Ad-libbed Freddie Singalong)
Freddie: Wonderful
Now I'm Here
Click here for the original song details. Length 5:21
Lyrics:
Around, around
Around, around
Think I'm gonna stay around with you
Around, around
Around, around
I think I'm gonna stay around with you
With you
With you, babe
Now I'm here, now I'm here
Now I'm there, now I'm there
I'm just a, I'm just, come on, everybody
Just a new man
Yes, you made me live again
Everybody rock and roll, yeah, come on
A baby I was when you took my hand
The light of the night burned bright
People all stared didn't understand
But you knew my name on sight
Ooh, whatever came of you and me
America's new bride to be
Don't worry babe I'm safe and sound
Down in the dungeon just Peaches 'n' me, yeah
Don't I love you so
'Cos you made me live again
Yeah
Ooh, a thin moon me in a smoke screen sky
Beams of your lovelight chase
Don't move, don't speak, don't feel no pain
With rain running down my face
Your matches still light up the sky
Many a tear lives on in my eye
Down in the city just Hoople 'n' me
Whatever comes of you and me
I love to leave my memory with you
Now I'm here
Think I'll stay
Audience: Think I'll stay
Around
Audience: Around
Around
Audience: Around
Around
Audience: Around
Around
Audience: Around
Down in the city
justa you 'n' me
You and me baby
Shoot out
Is This The
World We Created?
Click here for the original song
details. Length 2:23
Lyrics:
Just look at all those hungry mouths we have to feed
Take a look at all the suffering we breed
So many lonely faces scattered all around
Searching for what they need
Is this the world we created, what did we do it for
Is this the world we invaded, against the law
So it seems in the end is this what we're all living for today
The world that we created
You know that everyday a helpless child is born
Who needs some loving care inside a happy home
Somewhere a wealthy man is sitting on his throne
Waiting for life to go by
Ooh, oh, is this the world we created, we made it on our own
Is this the world we devastated, right to the bone
If there's a God up in the sky looking down
What must he think of what we've done
To the world that he created
Brian: Vocês
estão felizes? You
wanna sing with us. Alright. Then this is especially for you. I
hope you're not too wet out there. I have to tell you this song
is very special for people of South America, and we thank you
very much for making it special throughout the world. This is
called 'Love Of My Life'
Love Of My Life
Click here for the original song details. Length 4:24
Lyrics:
Audience: Love of my life - you've hurt me
Audience: You've broken my heart and now you
leave me
Audience: Love of my life, can't you see
Audience: Bring it back, bring it back
Audience: Don't take it away from me, because you don't know
Audience: What it means to me
Love of my life - don't leave me
You've stolen my love, you now desert me
Audience: Love of my life, can't you see
Audience: Bring it back, bring it back
Audience: Don't take it away from me, because you don't know
Audience: What it means to me
Brian: You sing great
Freddie: Obrigado
You will remember
When this is blown over
And everything's all by the way
When I grow older
I will be there at your side to remind you
How I still love you
Audience: I still love you
You, I still love you (Brian: Not bad. You
sing very nice)
Ooooh, hurry back, hurry back
Don't take it away from me, because you don't know
What it means to me
Audience: Love of my life
Audience: Love of my life
Oooh, yeah
Freddie: Alright
Brighton Rock
Click here for the original song details or here for other guitar solos. Length 2:58
This track includes Brian's guitar solo (length 1:56), before the
rest of the band join in for 'Brighton Rock' (length 1:02)
As this is such a short guitar solo, I am sure that some of it,
and the rest of 'Brighton Rock', have been edited out.
Lyrics:
Jenny pines away, writes a letter everyday
We must never be together, nothing can my love erase
Oh no, I'm compromised, I must apologise
If my mother should discover how I spent my holiday
Oooh, ooh, ooh (oooh, ooh, ooh)
Yeah
(Ad-libbed vocal by Freddie)
Yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Freddie: OK - hammer to fall
Hammer To Fall
Click here for the original song details. Length 4:50
Lyrics:
Yeah
Here we stand, here we fall
History don't care at all
Make the bed, light the light
Lady Mercy won't be home tonight
You don't waste no time at all
Don't hear the bell but you answer the call
Comes to you as to us all
And it's time for the hammer to fall, yeah
Every night, every day
A little piece of you is falling away
Lift your face, the western way, baby
Build your muscles till your body decays
Toe your line and play their game
Till the anaesthetic covers it all
Till one day they call your name
Then it's time for the hammer to fall
Rich or poor or famous for
Your truth it's all the same (oh no) oh no (oh no)
Lock your door 'cos rain is pouring
Through your window pane (oh no)
Baby now your troubles all in vain
For he who grew up tall and proud
In the shadow of the mushroom cloud
Convinced our voices can't be heard
Just want to scream it louder and louder and
What the hell we fighting for?
Just surrender and it won't hurt at all
Just got time to say your prayers
Till it's time for the hammer to, hammer to fall
Yeah, going to fall
Going to fall, yeah
Yeah
Yeah, yeah
For the hammer to fall, yeah
Give it to me one more time
Bohemian Rhapsody
Click here for the original song details. Length 5:15
This track includes a short piano intro
Lyrics:
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, oooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody, I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, oooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche will you do the fandango?
Thunderbolts and lightning - very, very frightening me
Gallileo, gallileo
Gallileo, gallileo
Gallileo, figaro - magnifico-o-o-o-oh
I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go
Bismillah! No - we will not let you go, let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go, let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go, let me go
Will not let you go, let me go
Never, never, never, never, never (never let you go)
Never let me go-o-o-o-oh
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh, mama mia, mama mia
Mama mia let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Ooh, baby, can't do this to me baby
Just gotta get out - just gotta get right outta here, yeah
Oooh yeah, oooh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters to me
Anyway the wind blows
Radio Ga Ga
Click here for the original song details. Length 5:42
Lyrics:
(Radio)
I'd sit alone and watch your light
My only friend through teenage nights
And everything I had to know
I heard it on my radio
(Radio)
You gave them all those old time stars
Through wars of worlds invaded by Mars
You made 'em laugh, made 'em cry
You made us feel like we could fly
(Radio)
So don't become some background noise
A backdrop for the girls and boys
Who just don't know, care
And just complain when you're not there
You had your time, you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio (radio)
Everybody
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio goo goo, radio ga ga
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio blah blah
Radio what's knew?
Radio, someone still loves you
We watch the shows, we watch the stars
On videos for hours and hours
We hardly need to use our ears
Our music changes through the years
(Radio)
We hope you'll never leave old friend
Like all good things on you we depend
So stick around 'cos we might miss you
When we grow tired of all this visual
You had your time, you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio (radio)
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio goo goo, radio ga ga
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio goo goo, radio ga ga
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio blah blah
Radio what's knew?
Radio, someone still loves you
Radio ga ga
Radio ga ga
Radio ga ga
(Radio)
You had your time, you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio (radio)
Everybody
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio goo goo, radio ga ga
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio blah blah
Radio what's knew?
Radio, someone still loves you
Loves you
Freddie: Goodbye. Thank you
I Want To
Break Free
Click here for the original song details. Length 3:23
Lyrics:
Everybody
I want to break free, you sing it
Audience: I want to break free
I want to break free from your lies
You're so self satisfied I don't need you
I've want to break free
Audience: God knows
God knows I want to break free
I've fallen in love
I've fallen in love for the first time
This time I know it's for real
I've fallen in love, yeah
God knows, God knows I've fallen in love
It's strange but it's true, hey
I can't get over the way you love me like you do
But I have to be sure
When I walk out that door
Oh, how I want to be free, baby
Oh, how I want to break free
Oh, how I want to break free
But life still goes on
I can't get used to living without
Living without, living without you by my side
I don't want to live alone, hey
God knows, got to make it on my own
So baby can't you see
I've got to break free
We Will Rock
You
Click here for the original song details. Length 2:25
Lyrics:
Buddy you're a boy make a big noise
Playing in the street gonna be a big man some day
Mud on your face
Big disgrace
Kicking your can all over the place
Singing
Audience: We will, we will, rock you
Yeah
We will, we will, rock you
Buddy you're a young man, hard man
Shouting in the street gonna take on the world some day
Blood on your face
Big disgrace
Waving your banner all over the place
Sing it
Audience: We will, we will, rock you
Everybody
We will, we will, rock you
Buddy you're an old man, poor man
Pleading with your eyes gonna get you some peace some day
Mud on your face
Big disgrace
Somebody better put you back into your place
Sing it
Audience: We will, we will, rock you
Everybody, yeah
Audience: We will, we will, rock you
Yeah
We will, we will, rock you
One more time
Audience: We will
We will rock you
We Are The
Champions
Click here for the original song details. Length 4:02
Lyrics:
I've paid my dues
Time after time
I've done my sentence
But committed no crime
And bad mistakes
I've made a few
I've had my share of sand
Kicked in my face
But I've come through
On, on, on
We are the champions, my friends
And we'll keep on fighting till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cos we are the champions
Of the world
I've taken my bows
And my curtain calls
You've brought me fame and fortune
And everything that goes with it, I thank you all
But it's been no bed of roses
No pleasure cruise
I consider it a challenge before the whole human race
And I ain't gonna lose
On, on, on
We are the champions, my friends
And we'll keep on fighting till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cos we are the champions
Of the world
We are the champions, my friends
And we'll keep on fighting till the end
Oh, we are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cos we are the champions
Of the world
Yeah, yeah, yeah
God Save The Queen
Click here for the original track details. Length 1:13