Queen On Fire - Live At The Bowl


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Queen 'Queen On Fire - Live At The Bowl'

Released 25 October 2004, reached no 20, on chart for 4 weeks, and achieved Gold status.
Disc One length 54:37, Disc Two length 47:35.

Disc One Tracklisting:
1. Flash
2. The Hero
3. We Will Rock You (fast version)
4. Action This Day
5. Play The Game
6. Staying Power
7. Somebody To Love
8. Now I'm Here
9. Dragon Attack
10. Now I'm Here (reprise)
11. Love Of My Life
12. Save Me
13. Back Chat


Disc Two Tracklisting:
1. Get Down, Make Love
2. Guitar Solo
3. Under Pressure
4. Fat Bottomed Girls
5. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
6. Bohemian Rhapsody
7. Tie Your Mother Down
8. Another One Bites The Dust
9. Sheer Heart Attack
10. We Will Rock You (slow version)
11. We Are The Champions
12. God Save The Queen

 

  Queen are: Freddie Mercury, John Deacon, Roger Taylor, Brian May
Additional Keyboards and Piano: Morgan Fisher
Executive Producers: Brian May and Roger Taylor

Produced by Justin Shirley-Smith

Queen Management: Jim Beach
Pro-Tools HD by Kris Fredriksson
Assisted by Richard Edgeler at Sphere Studios, London
Mastered by Tim Young at Metropolis Mastering, London
Recorded by Mack & Mick McKenna
Assisted by Pete 'The Fish' Stevens and Greg Cox in the Rolling Stones Mobile
Recorded at the Milton Keynes Bowl, 5th June 1982


This album was also released on DVD, and was later released on 6 June 2005 as a triple LP set.
The Chinese release omits 'Get Down, Make Love' and 'Fat Bottomed Girls' due to censorship laws.


Flash


Disc 1, Track 1. Track length 1:54, song length 1:52.
Only a backing track is played, which is similar to the album version. This track segues into 'The Hero'.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'Flash Gordon' album page.

Lyrics:
Flash, a-ah

Flash, a-ah

Flash, a-ah

The Hero


Disc 1, Track 2. Track length 1:45, song length 1:43.
This track segues from 'Flash', and is the first track that the band actually perform live.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'Flash Gordon' album page.

Lyrics:
Hey

So you feel like you ain't nobody
But you needed to be somebody
Put your feet on the ground
Put your hand on your heart
Lift your head to the stars
The world's for your taking
Hey, hello, hello

So you feel like it's end of story
But you feel pretty satisfactory
But let me tell you my friends
This could be like the end
But the continuation is
Yours for the making
Hey
'Cos you're a hero
Give it to me

Hero, yeah

We Will Rock You

(fast version)


Disc 1, Track 3. Track length 3:18, song length 2:48.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'News Of The World' album page.

Lyrics:
Hey, oooh yeah
Oh, yeah
Yes, ah
Come on
Give it to me
Yeah

Buddy you're a boy make a big noise
Playing in the street be a big man some day
Got mud on your face
Big disgrace
Kicking your can all over the place


Audience: we will, we will
Rock you, tonight
We will, we will

Buddy you're a young man, hard man
Shouting in the street gonna take on the world some day
Got blood on your face
Big disgrace
Waving your banner all over the place
Come on


Audience: we will, we will
Rock you, sing it
We will, we will, rock

Oh
Rock you, rock you
Rock, rock you
Hey, hey
Rock with me, hey
Yes, ah
Rock you, rock you

Ooh, we will, we will, rock you, tonight
We will, we will, rock you, rock you, rock you, rock you
We will, we will, rock you, yeah
Rock you


Freddie: Hello, everybody. Hey, hey, hey, OK. Do you know, it's not, it's not very often that we do shows in daylight, and I fucking wish we'd done before, I can see you all now. And there's some beauties here tonight, I can tell you. On with the show, this is Action.

Action This Day


Disc 1, Track 4. Track length 4:53, song length 4:46.
Lead vocals are sung by Freddie and Roger.
This track also appears as a bonus video on the 'Hot Space' 2011 iTunes LP.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'Hot Space' album page.

Lyrics:
Action

Hey
This street honey is a mean street
Living in this street honey is a mean streak
We've got criminals living in this street
You got a heartbeat pulse that keeps on pumping
Like a jukebox playing the same dead record
Or a radio in the corner keeps blaring
I gotta feeling this world is using me

Ha
This town honey is a dead town
Living in this town honey is a let down
Coming to this town honey is a show down
You got a heartbeat pulse that keeps on pumping
Some sunshine ray through a crack in the shutter
Or a sight of a light at the end of the tunnel
I gotta feeling this world is using me

Action this day
Action this night
Oh, you've got the power to love to live
You can't say it ain't right

Action this day
Action this night
Oh, you've got the power
You've got the power
You've got the power to love and to live
You can't say it ain't right

Your mind honey is a bleak place
Living in your mind honey is a blank space
Your mind is coming from a rat race
You got a heartbeat pulse that keeps on pumping
Like a jukebox playing the same dead record
Or a radio in the corner keeps blaring
I gotta feeling that just won't quit, this world is using me

Action this day
Action this night
Oh, you've got the power to love to live
You can't say it ain't right

Action this day
Action this night
Oh, you've got the power
You've got the power
You've got the power to love and to live
You can't say it ain't right

Hey

Action

Action
Action
Action
Action - give me
(Action) Living in this street
Living in a mean street
(Action) This street, this street
You got, I want action
I want action, give me, hey
Action, give it to me, oh babe

Hey
Action, action, hey
Action, action, wow

Hey, hey
Oooh, now
Give it to me
Give it to me right now
Give it to me
Give it to me right now
Action, action
Action, action
I got a feeling that just won't quit this world is using

I got this feeling
I got this feeling that this world is using you and me

Play The Game


Disc 1, Track 5. Track length 4:31, song length 3:29.
This track includes a 22 second piano warm-up (not included in the above time), whilst there is an additional 14 second long Singalong just before Freddie's dialogue at the end. Part of Freddie's dialogue track was edited out for the CD release, but remained intact on the DVD.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'The Game' album page.

Lyrics: (the dialogue in red is edited out on the CD release)
Open up your mind and let me step inside
Rest your weary head and let your heart decide
It's so easy
When you know the rules
It's so easy
All you have to do
Is fall in love
Play the game
Everybody play the game of love, yeah

When you're feeling down and your resistance is low
Light another cigarette and let yourself go
This is your bloody life
Don't play hard to get
It's a free world
All you have to do is fall in love
Play the game
Everybody play the game of love, yeah

My game of love has just begun
Love runs from my head down to my toes
My love is pumping through my veins
Driving me insane
Play the game, play the game
Play the game, play the game

Oh yeah

Play the game
Everybody play the game of love
Ooh, this is your life
Don't play hard to get
It's a free, free world
All you have to do is fall in love
Play the game
Everybody play the game

Play it the way you like, hey
Play the game

Play the game
Everybody play the game


Hey, hey, hey
Audience: hey, hey, hey
Ey, oh
Audience: ey, oh
Ey, ey, ey, oh
Audience: ey, ey, ey, oh
Ey, ey, ey, ey, oohhh
Audience: ey, ey, ey, ey, oohhh

Freddie: Now, most of you know that we've got a, some new sounds out in the last week, and, ah, for what it's worth, um, we're gonna do a few songs in the ah funk/black category, whatever you call it.
That doesn't mean we've lost our rock 'n' roll feel, OK? I mean, it's only a bloody record, people get so excited about these things, I mean um, we just wanna try out a few sounds, this is 'Staying Power'.

Staying Power


Disc 1, Track 6. Track length 4:04, song length 3:45.
This track also appears on 'Greatest Video Hits II', including Freddie's complete dialogue which appears at the end of 'Play The Game', and as audio on the 'Hot Space' 2011 double disc reissue, without any dialogue.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'Hot Space' album page.

Lyrics:
Ha
Ha
Keep doing that
Let me show it to you
Yeah
Ha
Ahh
Wow

See what I got
I gotta hell of a lot
Tell me what you feel
Is it real
Is it real
You know I got what it takes
And I can take a lot
Did you hear the last call baby
Me got staying power, ha
You and me we've got, huh, staying power, yeah
You got it, staying power, ha

I wonder when we're gonna make it
I wonder when we're gonna shake it
Rock me baby rock me
Come on you can shock me
Let's catch on to the groove
Make it move, make it move, yeah
You know how to work that thing
We'll work it, work it, work it
I can play ball baby
You and me got staying power, ha
You and me we've got, ha, staying power


(Ad-libbed vocals)

Ha
Oooh, watch'a
Give it to me

I wonder when we're gonna make it
I wonder when we're gonna shake it
I got fire down below
I'm just a regular dynamo
Want some smooth company
Don't lose control just hang on out with me
Got to get to know each other
We got plenty of time
Did you hear the last call baby
Me got staying power
Ha, you and me we've got, huh, staying power
Hey, ha, wow
Power, power, power, power
Power, power, power, staying power
Wow

I wonder when we're gonna stick it
I wonder when we're gonna trick it
Blow baby blow
Let's get down and go, go
Get yourself in the mood
Got to give a little bit of attitude
Baby don't you crash
Let's just trash, trash, trash
Did you hear the last call baby
Me got staying power, yeah
Ha, you and me we got staying power
Staying power
Yeah, yeah, gotcha

Somebody To Love


Disc 1, Track 7. Track length 7:53, song length 7:45.
This track includes a lengthy piano intro.
This track was originally released, edited down to 4:32, on the video 'Rare Live'. This version loses the sections from approx 0:00 to 0:08, 2:16 to 3:44, 4:03 to 4:36, 4:46 to 4:58, 5:58 to 6:54, and 7:44 onwards. A further edit appears on 'The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert', while the full track was also released as a bonus streaming video as part of the 'Absolute Greatest' release in 2009, losing some of the piano intro, and as audio on the 'A Day At The Races' 2011 double disc reissue.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'A Day At The Races' album page.

Lyrics: (the lyrics in red were edited out of the 'Rare Live' version)
Can
Can you find me
Somebody
Somebody
Somebody
Somebody to love
Can you find me somebody to love?


Freddie: Are you ready?
Freddie: Huh, are you ready brothers and sisters?


Each morning I get up I die a little
Can barely stand on my feet
Take a look in the mirror and cry
Lord what you doing to me
I have spent all my years in believing you
I just can't get no relief, Lord
Somebody (somebody), somebody (somebody)
Anybody find me somebody to love

I work hard (he works hard) every day of my bloody life
I work till I ache my bones
At the end (at the end of the day)
I take home my hard earned pay all on my own (goes home on his own)
I go down on my knees
And I start to pray
Till the tears run down from my eyes,
Lord
Somebody (somebody), somebody (somebody)
Anybody find me somebody to love

He works hard
Everyday - try and I try and I try
But everybody wants to put me down
They say I'm going crazy
They say I got a lot of water in my brain
I got no common sense
I got nobody left to believe
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Oooh, oooh, Lord
Somebody (somebody), somebody (somebody)
Anybody find me somebody to love

Got no feel, I've got no rhythm
I just keep losing my beat
I'm OK, I'm alright
I ain't gonna face no defeat
I just gotta get out of this prison cell
One day I'm gonna be free,
Lord!

I've just gotta be free
Free I tell you


Give it to me, hey, hey, hey
Give it to me, yeah, I like it
Hey, yeah, yeah
Wow, wow, wow, wow
Oh, oh, oh
Can you find me
Can you find me, ooh


Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love

Somebody (somebody)
Somebody (somebody)
Somebody find me
Somebody find me somebody to love
Anybody find me

Can you find me
Can
Can you find me
Some
Some
Somebody
Somebody to love, yeah


(Find me somebody to love)
(Find me) find me (somebody to love) some (yeah, yeah)
Some
Somebody to love me
Can you love me
Can you love me
Oooh
Give love, give love, give love, give love
Somebody to love
Can anybody find me
Can anybody find me, find me, find me, find me, find
Wooooh, yeah
Some,
yeah, somebody
Save me

Ooh, ooh (yeah, yeah), somebody to love

Now I'm Here


Disc 1, Track 8. Track length 6:18, song length 7:00.
This track includes a 19 second guitar warm-up (not included in the song length), and the first minute of 'Dragon Attack' is actually the end of this track. The track also includes a vocal improvisation of length 1:38.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'Sheer Heart Attack' album page.

Lyrics:
Here I stand
Look around, around, around, around, around
But you won't see me

Now I'm here
Now I'm there
I'm just a
Just a new man
Yes, you made me live again

A baby I was when you took my hand
The light of the night burned bright
The 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
Don't I love you so
'Cos you made me live again
Come on

Yeah
Ooh, a thin moon me in a smoke screen sky
The 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
Go for it
Go, go
Hey, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Go for it, go with me
Keep it out your mind, hey

Come on
Hey, ohhh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ha

Whatever comes of you and me
I love to leave my memory with you, yeah


Freddie: I feel, um, positively knackered, I tell you. OK, everybody, let's play games, ha

I said a hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Audience: hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
I said a yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Audience: yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I said a yeah, yeah
Audience: yeah, yeah

I said a yeah, yeah
Audience: yeah, yeah
I said a yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Audience: yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I said a yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, cool (Audience: yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Audience: yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, cool

I said cool
Audience: cool
I said yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, cool
Audience: yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, cool
I said cool, cool
Audience: cool, cool
I said yeah, yeah
Audience: yeah, yeah
Ooooohhhhhhhh
Audience: oooohhhhhhhh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Audience: oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Audience: oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oooh
Audience: oooh
Yeah, yeah
Audience: yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah-yeah
Audience: yeah, yeah-yeah

Freddie: Come on, I'm gonna make you sing like Aretha Franklin, come on


I said yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah
Audience: yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah
Yeah-yeah yeah
Audience: Yeah-yeah yeah
Ooh-ooh-oooh
Audience: Ooh-ooh-oooh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh
Audience: Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh
Oh-oh, alright
Audience: Oh-oh, alright
Everything's gonna be alright
Audience: Everything's gonna be alright
Right
Audience: Right
Right
Audience: Right
Alright
Audience: Alright
Alright
Audience: Alright
Freddie: Right you can join the band

Dragon Attack


Disc 1, Track 9. Track length 4:16, song length 3:16.
This track segues from and into 'Now I'm Here'. The first minute of the track is actually the finale of 'Now I'm Here'; the song lengths shown reflect this.
The entire CD track, plus the reprise of 'Now I'm Here' which follows, appears on 'The Game' 2011 double disc reissue.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'The Game' album page.

Lyrics:
Shout
Ooooh
Shaking around
Shaking around
Get down
Go for it boy, go

Go
Ha
Yeah
Ooooooh yeah, yeah, yeah

Take me to the room where the red's all red
Take me out of my head's that's what I said, yeah
Take me to the room where the green's all green
And from what I've seen it's hot, it's mean

Gonna use my stack
It's gotta be Mack
Gonna get me on the track
Got a dragon on my back

Take me to the room where the beat's all round
Gonna eat that sound, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Take me to the room where the black's all white
And the white's all black, back to the shack

Don't use no prisoner
Gonna give you the business
Got a dragon on my back
Hey, it's a dragon attack

Yeah
It's a dragon attack, baby
Oooohhh

Ohhh
Wow

Running around, yeah
Running around
Running around
Running around
Ohh, yeah

Now I'm Here

(reprise)


Disc 1, Track 10. Track length 2:21, song length 0:50.
This track segues from 'Dragon Attack'.
During his speech, and as a warm up for the next track, Brian plays an instrumental acoustic version of 'Las Palabras De Amor' (length 0:29).
The track, omitting Brian's dialogue and warm-up, appears as part of 'Dragon Attack' on 'The Game' 2011 double disc reissue.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'Sheer Heart Attack' album page.

Lyrics:
Down in the city justa you 'n' me

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Shoot out, babe


Brian: Thank you. This is a, this is the guitarist's chance to say a few words. So thank you for coming first of all. Thank you for making this long trek to Milton Keynes, I think it was worth it, what do you think? It's alright. I'm gonna have a little fiddle around.

(Acoustic warm-up, including 'Las Palabras De Amor')

Brian: I'd just like to dedicate this next one - this is a little unusual - but um, seeing as we're not playing our song of peace tonight, I'd like to say um, I'd like to dedicate this a, particular song to all those people who are not like us and sitting here and having a good time, listening to music, but um, but, no matter where they come from, people who have given up their lives for what they believe.

Love Of My Life


Disc 1, Track 11. Track length 4:22, song length 3:38.
This track also appears as a bonus video on the 'A Night At The Opera' 2011 iTunes LP, and fades out after Freddie says 'thank you'.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'A Night At The Opera' album page.

Lyrics:
Love of my life you've hurt me
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
Love of my life can't you see
Bring it back, bring it back
Don't take it away from me, because you don't know
What it means to me

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
I still love you
Don't you forget it

Oh 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

Ooooh
Yeah

Thank you

Ummm yeah

Save Me


Disc 1, Track 12. Track length 4:01, song length 3:40.
Brian does a 16 second piano warm-up before the song; this is not included in the above time.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'The Game' album page.

Lyrics:
It started off so well
They said we made a perfect pair
I clothed myself in your glory and your love
How I loved you
How I cried

Years of care and loyalty
Were nothing but a sham it seems
The years belie we lived the lie
I love you 'til I die

Save me, save me, save me
I can't face this life alone
Save me, save me, ohhhh
I'm naked and I'm far from home

The slate will soon be clean
I'll erase the memories
To start again with somebody new
Was it all wasted
All that love

I hang my head and I advertise
A soul for sale or rent
I have no heart, I'm cold inside
I have no real intent

Save me, save me, save me
I can't face this life alone
Save me, save me, ohhh
I'm naked and I'm far from home
Freak out

Yeah, yeah
Each night I cry, I still believe the lie
I love you, 'til I die
Yes, ah

Save me, yeah
Save me, oh save me
Don't let me face my life alone

Save me, save me, ooh, oh, oh, ooh
I'm naked and I'm far from home
Ooooh

Back Chat


Disc 1, Track 13. Track length 5:01, song length 4:49.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'Hot Space' album page.

Lyrics:
Hey, come on
Freddie: This is a, this is a song by John. It's called Back Chat, Back Chat, Back Chat, Back Chat, Back Chat

Ha, oooh, yeah, yeah
Ha
Bah, bah, bap, bah bap

Back chat, back chat
You burn all my energy
Back chat, back chat
Criticising all you see
Back chat, back chat
Analysing what I say
Back chat, back chat
And you always get your way
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Sing it to me
See what you done to me

Back chat, back chat
You're driving me insane
It's a battle to the end
Knock me down you come again
Talk back, talk back
You've got me on the rack
Twisting every word I say
Wind me up you get your way
Fat chance I have
Of making a romance
If I'm ever gonna win
Have to get the last word in
Take it from there
Ahh

Twisting every word I say
Wind me up and let me play
Back chat, back chat
You burn all my energy
Back chat, back chat
Criticising all you see
Back chat, back chat
Analysing what I say
Back chat, back chat
And you always get your way

Oh
Oh baby
Talk to me, talk to me, talk to me, blow
Back chat, back chat, back chat
Give that to me

Come on now
Wake up, stand up
And let yourself on out
Get down, get ready
Scream and shout
Back off me, be cool
And learn to change your ways
'Cos you're walking in your sleep
And you're walking in a daze

Don't push your luck with me
I'm ready to attack
'Cos when I'm trying to talk to you
All you do is just talk back
You stand so tall
You don't frighten me at all
Don't talk back, don't talk back, don't talk back
Just leave me alone, ha

Hey
Back chat, back chat
You burn all my energy
Back chat, back chat
Criticising all you see
Back chat, back chat
Analysing what I say
Back chat, back chat
And you always get your way

Yes you do, baby, ahhh
Go for it, hey
Ohh get on down
Ohh, yeah
Hey
Talk to me, talk to me
Oh get on down here
Wow
Oh get on down
Get on down
Get on down
Hey
Get on down
Get on down
Back chat, back talk
Back, back, back, back, back, back, back chat

Hey
Get on down
Get on down
Go for it
Go for it
Go for it
Hey
Take care
Ow
Back chat

Get Down, Make Love


Disc 2, Track 1. Track length 3:40, song length 3:37.
This track segues into Brian's guitar solo.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'News Of The World' album page.

Lyrics:
Get down, make love
Get down, make love
Get down, make love
Get down, make love

You take my body - I give you heat
You say you hungry - I give you meat
I suck your mind - you blow my head
Make love inside your bed
Everybody get down, make love
Get down, make love
Get down, make love
Get down, make love

Everytime I get hot - wanna come down
Everytime I get up - you say you wanna cool down
Say it's enough - in fact it's too much
Everytime I wanna
Get down, get down, get down


(Ad-libbed vocal section)

Guitar Solo


Disc 2, Track 2. Track length 6:22.
This track includes Brian's guitar solo (length 5:42), followed by a drum solo (length 0:28).
During the actual concert, Brian's solo is interrupted by a problem with his guitar (at approx CD position 4:40). On the DVD release, there is a break of around 20 seconds, whilst this is edited to around 3 seconds on the CD. Apart from this, the two versions are identical.
The drum solo acts as an introduction, and segues into, 'Under Pressure'.
Details of other guitar solos and drum solos can both be found on the Live Solos & Improvisations page.

Under Pressure


Disc 2, Track 3. Track length 3:48, song length 3:23.
This track segues from Roger's drum solo.
This track was included as a bonus track on the 2004 US 'Greatest HIts' CD, omitting Freddie's dialogue.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'Hot Space' album page.

Lyrics:
Um, boom, bah, bay
Um, boom, bah, bay
Um, boom, bah, do, bah

Pressure pushing down on me
Pushing down on you, no man ask for
Under pressure
That burns a building down
Splits a family in two
Puts people on streets

Um, bah, bah, bay
Um, bah, bah, bay
Eh, day, dah
Eh, day, dah
That's OK

It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends screaming
Let me out
Pray tomorrow - gets me higher
Pressure on people - people on streets

Day, day, day
Day, day, day, day, day

Audience: OK

Chipping around - kick my brains around the floor
These are the days, it never rains but it pours
Eh, doh, day, dee
Eh, da, da, dop
Eh, doh, doh
De, dop

People on streets
Eh, dah, dee, dah, day
People on streets
Eh, dah, dee, dah, dee, dah, dee, dah

It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends screaming
Let me out
Pray tomorrow - higher, higher
Ooooohhh

Turned away from it all like a blind man
Sat on a fence but it don't work
Keep coming up with love but it's so slashed and torn
Why - why - why?

Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking

Can't we give ourselves one more chance
Why can't we give love that one more chance
Why can't we give love, give love, give love
Give love, give love, give love, give love, give love
Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to
Care for the people on the
Edge of the night
And love dares you to
Change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves

Under pressure
Under pressure
Pressure


Freddie: Yeah. OK. OK, um, get your dirty address books out and put this one in, I tell you, this next song.

Fat Bottomed Girls


Disc 2, Track 4. Track length 5:25, song length 4:26.
This track also appears as a bonus video on the 'Jazz' 2011 iTunes LP, and includes Freddie's introduction.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'Jazz' album page.

Lyrics:
Freddie: I have three words to say - Fat Bottomed Girls, yeah

Roger: One, two, three, four

Oh, you gonna take me home tonight
Oh, down beside your red fire light
Oh, you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rocking world go round

I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew life before I left my nursery, huh
Left alone with big fat fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Big woman, you made an asshole out of me
You do that

I've been singing with my band
Across the water across the land
I've seen every blue eyed floozy on the way, hey
But their beauty and their style
Wear kind of smooth after a while
Take me to them dirty ladies every time
Come on

Oh, you gonna take me home tonight
Oh, down beside your red fire light
Oh, you gonna give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rocking world go round
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rocking world go round

Now I've got mortgages on homes
I've got stiffness in my bones
Ain't no beauty queens in this locality
I tell you
Hope that I still got my treasure
Still got my greatest pleasure
Big woman you gonna make a big man of me

Oh, I know, you gonna take me home tonight
Oh, down beside your red fire light
Oh, you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rocking world go round, yeah
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rocking world go round

Get on your bikes and ride

(unknown lyric)
Right on

Oooh, yeah
One more time, yeah
Oooh, yeah
They get me everytime


Freddie: Hey, about, about ten years ago I knew about three chords on the guitar. And now, now in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar. Before, ah, before this wonderful intro that I'm gonna give you, right now, I'd like to a, introduce to you Mr Morgan Fisher on the piano - in that wonderful pink. He's either AC or he's DC, I don't know

Crazy Little Thing Called Love


Disc 2, Track 5. Track length 4:15, song length 3:56.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'The Game' album page.

Lyrics:
Freddie: OK, this is a, for anybody that's crazy out there.

A this thing called love I just can't handle it
This thing called love I must get round to it
I ain't ready
Crazy little thing called love

A this thing (this thing) called love (called love)
It cries (like a baby)
In a cradle all night
It swings (woo, woo)
It jives (woo, woo)
It shakes all over like a jelly fish
I kinda like it
Crazy little thing called love

There goes my baby
She knows how to rock 'n' roll
She drives me crazy
She gives me hot and cold fever
And she leaves me in a cool, cool sweat

I gotta be cool, relax, get hip
And get on my tracks
Take a back seat, hitch hike
Take a long ride on my motorbike
Until I'm ready
Crazy little thing called love

Be cool, relax, get hip
And get on my tracks
Take a back seat, hitch hike
Take a long ride on my motorbike
Until I'm ready (ready Freddie)
Crazy little thing called love

This thing called love I just can't handle it
This thing called love I must get round to it
I ain't ready
Crazy little thing called love
Crazy little thing called love
Crazy little thing called love, mama
Crazy little thing called love, go for it Brian

A yeah, yeah
Crazy little thing called love, huh
Crazy little thing called love, yeah, yeah
Crazy little thing called love, yeah, yeah
Crazy little thing called love, huh, huh
Crazy little thing called love, huh, huh
Crazy little thing called love, mama
Crazy little thing called love, wow
Crazy little thing called love, yeah, yeah
Crazy little thing called love, alright

Bohemian Rhapsody


Disc 2, Track 6. Track length 5:38, song length 5:03.
The song is preceded by a 23 second piano introduction, which is not included in the above time.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'A Night At The Opera' album page.

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?
Oh, baby, can't do this to me baby
Just gotta get out - just gotta get right outta here

Oooh yeah, oooh yeah

Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters to me

Anyway the wind blows

Tie Your Mother Down


Disc 2, Track 7. Track length 4:10, song length 3:33.
This track also appears as a bonus video on the 2004 US 'Greatest Hits' CD and the 'A Day At The Races' 2011 iTunes LP.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'A Day At The Races' album page.

Lyrics:
Freddie: One more

Ooooh, yeah
Got your party gown
Get your pigtail down
Get your heart beating, baby
Got my timing right
I 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 boiling 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 you guys
But you know I don't give a light
Gonna make out all right
Got a sweetheart hand
Stop to all that
Shouting and fighting going 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, yeah, yeah
Tie your mother down
She ain't no friend of mine
Ain't no friend of mine

Give it to me
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Oooh, your mummy and your daddy gonna
Plague me till I die
They don't understand me
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
All your love tonight
Give it to me, give me your love, I want it
All your love tonight
All your love tonight
Shoot out

Another One Bites The Dust


Disc 2, Track 8. Track length 3:49, song length 3:46.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'The Game' album page.

Lyrics:
Hey
Give it to me

Steve walks wearily down the street
Brim pulled way down low
Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet
Machine guns ready to go

Are you ready, hey, are you ready for this
Are you standing on the edge of your seat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat

Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah
Another one bites the dust, sing it

Audience: another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust

Ha, ha
Hey, hey, hey

How do you think I'm gonna get along
Without you when you're gone
You took me for everything that I had
And kicked me out on my own
Are you happy, are you satisfied
How long can you stand the beat
Out the door way the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat

Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust

Ha
Hey, hey
Oh, bite the dust baby, hey
Bite the dust baby
Bite the dust baby
Bite it, bite it, bite it
Bite the dick baby, bite the dick baby
Bite it, bite it, bite it, baby
Get on down, ha
Baby get on down baby
Ooh, yeah, yeah
Oh baby, baby yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right

Boogie on down
Hey, hey, hey
Bite it, baby bite it
Baby bite down, bite it, baby bite down, bite it, big bite
Hey, oh, shake
Ah, shake on down
Baby shake on down
Baby, we, hey
I'm with you, I'm ready
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah

There's plenty of ways that you can hurt a man
And bring him to the ground
You can beat him, you can cheat him
You can treat him bad and leave him when he's down, yeah
But I'm ready, yes I'm ready for you
I'm standing on my own two feet
Out the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Give it

Another one bites the dust, your turn

Audience: another one bites the dust
Ha, and another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust

Shoot out, shoot out, shoot out
Hey, hey, hey
Alright
Alright

Hey, yeah

Sheer Heart Attack


Disc 2, Track 9. Track length 3:26, song length 3:20.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'News Of The World' album page.

Lyrics:
Well, you're just 17 all you wanna do is disappear
You know what I mean there's a lot of space between our ears
The way that you touch
(ad-libbed lyrics)
Hey, hey, hey, hey, it was the D.N.A
Hey, hey, hey, hey, made me this way
Do you know, do you know, do you know just how I feel
Do you know, do you know, do you know just how I feel
Sheer heart attack
Sheer heart attack
Real cardiac

I feel so inar-inar-inar-inar-inar-inar-inar-inar-ticulate
Gotta feeling, gotta feeling, gotta feeling gotta paralyse
It ain't no, it ain't no, it ain't no, it ain't no surprise
Turn on the TV let it drip right down in your eyes
Hey, hey, hey, hey, it was the D.N.A
Hey, hey, hey, hey, that made me this way
Do you know, do you know, do you know just how I feel
Do you know, do you know, do you know just how I feel

Hey, baby make you feel
Baby make you feel alright
Hey, hey
Baby make you feel alright
Oooh, yeah
Get up

Baby make you feel
Baby make you feel alright, alright
Oh

I feel so inar-inar-inar-inar-ticulate-ticulate-ticulate-inar-inar-inar-ticulate-ticulate

We Will Rock You

(slow version)


Disc 2, Track 10. Track length 2:08, song length 2:04.
This track was later included in the 2017 'News Of The World' 40th anniversary boxed set.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'News Of The World' album page.

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


(Audience: we will, we will, rock you) Yeah, give it to me
Audience: 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


Audience: we will, we will, rock you
Audience: we will, we will, rock you

Yeah

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


(Audience: we will, we will, rock you) Yeah, give it to me
Audience: we will, we will, rock you
Yeah
We will, we will, rock you, yeah, yeah
We will, we will, rock you

We Are The Champions


Disc 2, Track 11. Track length 3:29, song length 3:27.
This track was later included in the 2017 'News Of The World' 40th anniversary boxed set. It features audience noise from the end of 'God Save The Queen' to give a longer fade-out to the track.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'News Of The World' album page.

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

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, I can tell you
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
Ooh, 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
Ooh, we are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cos we are the champions
Of the world

God Save The Queen


Disc 2, Track 12. Track length 1:25, song length 1:12.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'A Night At The Opera' album page.

Lyrics:
Freddie: Thank you, goodnight people. Thank you, you've been very special. Thank you for staying with us these last ten years, hey. We appreciate it. Goodnight, God bless you.