The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness was a

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held on

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, 20 April 1992, at

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, United Kingdom for an audience of 72,000. The concert was produced for television by

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, directed by David Mallet and broadcast live on television and radio to 76 countries around the world, with an audience of up to one billion. The concert was a tribute to

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's lead vocalist,

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, who

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on 24 November 1991. The show marked bassist

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's final full-length concert with Queen (save a short live appearance with

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in 1997). The profits from the concert were used to launch the

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, an AIDS charity organization.

History

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, to organise a concert to celebrate the life and legacy of Mercury, and to raise money for AIDS research and spread awareness about the disease. In the 1992

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ceremony, May and Taylor announced plans for the concert. When tickets finally went on sale, all 72,000 tickets sold out in just three hours, even though no performers were announced apart from the remaining members of

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Concert

The concert opened with a message from the three remaining members of Queen in tribute to Mercury. The music then commenced with short sets from artists that were influenced by the music of Queen, including

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, Extreme (playing a Queen medley),

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(who brought

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. Between bands, several video clips honouring Freddie Mercury were shown while

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changed the stage for the following act's performance.

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then gave an AIDS prevention speech, which was followed by a compilation of Mercury's various interactions with audiences. The second half of the concert featured the three remaining Queen members –

(on bass),

(on guitar) and

(on drums) – along with guest singers and guitarists, including

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, and others. Via satellite from Sacramento, California, U2 dedicated a live performance of "

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" to Mercury.

Home releases

The concert was originally released in VHS form (usually in two-tape releases worldwide), but due to time limitations, "Love of My Life" and "More Than Words" by Extreme, "Animal" and "Let's Get Rocked" by Def Leppard, Spinal Tap's "The Majesty of Rock", U2's "Until The End of the World",

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's " Special Star" and

's version of "Innuendo" were removed from the original release. The US release also omitted

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's performance of "Too Late God", and

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's performance of "

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". In April 2002, for the 10th anniversary of the Mercury Phoenix Trust, the second half of the concert (featuring the performances by the surviving members of Queen) was released on DVD and entered the UK charts at No. 1. "

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" was not included on the DVD, at Plant's request. In addition, the original 4:3 footage had been cropped down to widescreen. The DVD was certified Gold in Poland. On 24 June 2013, Queen announced on their

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page that a new remastered version of the concert would be released in late 2013 on

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. The DVD and Blu-ray was released on 2 September 2013. Like the earlier VHS release, this version excludes Extreme's "Love of My Life" and "More Than Words", Def Leppard's "Animal" and "Let's Get Rocked", performance by Spinal Tap, U2 and Mango Groove from the opening acts segment, and Plant's "Innuendo" from the Queen+ segment. It was certified Platinum in the UK. Clips of rehearsals and of Metallica's set (as well as James Hetfield's performance of "Stone Cold Crazy" with Queen and Tony Iommi) were featured in the 1992 documentary '' A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica''. In May 2020, Queen announced that they would be premiering the concert on

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to raise money for the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund. It was available for 48 hours. In April 2022, Queen streamed the concert again to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the concert as well as the Mercury Phoenix Trust. Several songs from the concert have also been released in audio-only format: *Metallica's three-song performance was made into a UK tour edition single for "Nothing Else Matters", entitled ''Live at Wembley Stadium'' and released in Europe just one week after the concert, on 27 April 1992. *Guns N' Roses' performance of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" was released in May 1992 as a double A-side, with the band's studio recording of the song; it was also featured on their album '' Live Era '87–'93''. The single entered the UK charts at No. 2. *Def Leppard released their version of "Now I'm Here" (with May) from the concert, as a B-side to their single "

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'' in April 1993. It entered the UK singles chart at No. 1. *the Queen + Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson, David Bowie and Def Leppard performance of the song "All the Young Dudes" was released on the Mick Ronson album 'Heaven and Hull'. *the Queen + David Bowie performances of the songs "All the Young Dudes" and "Heroes" were released on the soundtrack album to the 2018 film ''Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story''.

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", " Another One Bites The Dust", "

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– " Special Star" – played via satellite from Johannesburg, South Africa #

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– compilation of various interactions with the audience

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and

– "

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– "

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–

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

tambourine The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though ...

, backing vocals, co-lead vocals (on "Tie Your Mother Down" with Brian May on 1st chorus, and on "

" as a trio with

and

on choruses). *

–

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

, backing vocals

Guest musicians

– piano on "

" *

– electric guitar on "

" *

– electric guitar on " Heaven and Hell" (intro), " Pinball Wizard" (intro), " I Want It All", "

Hammer to Fall "Hammer to Fall" is a 1984 song by the British rock band Queen. Written by guitarist Brian May, the song is the eighth track on their 1984 album '' The Works''.

", "

" and "

" * Ian Hunter – electric guitar on "

" *

– electric guitar on "

" and "

" *

– alto saxophone on "

" *

– backing vocals on "

" *

– backing vocals on "

Backing musicians

Queen were backed by the following musicians: *

– keyboards, piano, backing vocals * Mike Moran – piano on "

" and " Somebody to Love" *

Josh Macrae Joshua J Macrae (born 1964 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an English drummer, audio engineer and record producer. Starting with a snare drum & hi hat in Primrose Hill Primary orchestra then from school punk band in Cornwall "Inconvenience" he left sc ...

– percussion in some Queen tracks * Chris Thompson – backing vocals, acoustic guitar on " I Want It All", "

" and "

", additional percussion *

Maggie Ryder Maggie Ryder is an English singer/songwriter and musician, principally known as a backing singer for bands such Queen and Eurythmics. Career In her early career, Ryder was the keyboard player with British funk/rock band Krakatoa. She co-wr ...

– backing vocals *

Miriam Stockley Miriam Arlene Stockley (born 15 April 1962) is a British singer. She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and her work is influenced by the African music of her home country. Her distinctive ''vocal warm up#Vocalise, vocalise'' style gained in ...

– backing vocals *

London Community Gospel Choir The London Community Gospel Choir is Britain's first renowned contemporary "performance touring, inspirational gospel choir band", fusing gospel with multi-genres of music, including pop, soul, jazz, R&B, and classical. It was founded in 198 ...

– backing vocals on " Somebody to Love" and "

" * John Jones – organ and backing vocals on "

Certifications and sales

References

External links

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Transcript of the DVD edition
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