This is the Friday show, the first of the two legendary nights at Wembley. Queen "Live at Wembley Stadium": July 11, 1986. (*Ripped and uploaded by Fabio Tosti)
I was a 70's/80's kid and kind of always took Queen for granted. It's funny how you never know when you are seeing true greatness until they are gone. This is simply godlike.
Dave Rindone - Dave I couldn't have said it better as to your view Queen and their level of "GOD LIKE GREATNESS." I was born in 1975 and man through the 80s did I EVER take this genius group for granted and had I had a chance to go back ... I would have FOUND a way to see Queen ... now Freddie and the band are my absolute favourite rock group... love you Freddie .... a true Music God... 🙏🏻
I am a huge Led Zeppelin fan and love Robert Plant but IMO there will probably NEVER be a front as good as Freddie Mercury. He was simply a showman extraordinaire!
@@nascarfantasyadvice7954 NAH JUST DIFFERENT PLANT...PLANTS MELODIES ALONE, EVEN IMPROVISED, WERE BRILLIANT AS WAS HIS PHRASING....HAD VOCAL SURGERY CAUSE HE HURT HIS VOICE EARLY ON BUT PLANT 68-73 UNREAL
You're right. I saw Queen at Madison Square Garden and it was an unbelievable show. Freddy held everyone in the palm of his hand and you left feeling like the show was just for you. Oh, the opener was a little known guy named Billy Squire.....
Wow I love this clip of Hammer to fall with the Spikey Guitar playing at 2:00 , Brilliant perfomance, Brought a tear to eyes as he creep up behind Brian May, This great performance goes down in History in my books, Freddie is the King of Rock n Roll.
The sound of the guitars here is so much better than the other day on Wembley. Brian here is not too overtreble. Also liked he played the pre-solo in the key of C instead of just riffing he did the other day. So this version is my favorite of two 86 Wembleys
agreed, and seconded. Brian May and Eric Clapton are Gods on how to transition into, through and out of a solo live and in the studio versions of their music.
Mister Edney really does have the look of someone who's like, "Wow, I'm on stage with QUEEN." This is not a bad thing, by the way. Though if he'd known he'd be playing with at least two of these guys for over twenty years...
I bet if someone had said to him before he joined you'll be playing with a legendary rock band such as Queen for over twenty years he'd have thought them crazy
Freddie is sick there, struggling alittle ...but that fucker is putting EVERYTHING out there...glad to have seen in the 70's and at Live Aid...though on a screen in Philly...there will NEVER be anyone as good...
Don is right; Jim Hutton and several others said that Freddie was experiencing fatigue well before Wembley. Fatigue or not: he was a phenomenon. From another planet. Nobody could captivate an audience and steal hearts like Fred. Long live the Queen!
Hammer to Fall has alot of places to rest. Check the Radio Gaga performance, he isn't singing many of the high notes he usually did, even compared to live aid just a year prior. He also seems to sound a bit stuffy on some of the notes there as well. It is on the back end of the concert though, so non-HIV related fatigue would be in play by that point and make him seem worse than he actually felt.
@@rickysld I saw them 4 times, all in St. Louis, USA Queen - Sheet Heart Attack Tour 1975 Queen - A Night at the Opera 1976 Queen - Day at the Races 1977 Queen - Jazz Tour 1978 The first time was the most impressive during their Sheer Heart Attack Tour. If you watch the “Live At The Rainbow '74” or the 1975 “A Night At The Odeon“ DvDs, they sounded a lot like that. The version of “Seven Seas Of Rhye” on the 1974 DvD comes closest to what I remember. Perhaps the best concert I’ve ever been terms of performance and sound. Freddie’s voice was great, almost unbelievable. Brian May is the most consistently great rock guitar player I’ve ever seen live. More so than Jimmy Page for sure, who sounded awful when I saw Zep in ’77 in the same arena I saw Queen perform at. They were so good live that rock magazines at the time hinted at rumors that Queen was lip-syncing to tape, but there is no evidence of that. They did however leave the stage during the middle part of “Bohemian Rhapsody” because that is too complicated to do live. I think they were at their peak for live performances during the mid 1970s: Queen- Seven Seas of Rhye (Live 1974): ua-cam.com/video/38xkDA_Q9rU/v-deo.html Queen - Keep Yourself Alive (Live At The Rainbow): ua-cam.com/video/wBrb0jIR2_8/v-deo.html
Probably the first vocally perfect version of this song in 86! Sadly Brian’s solos are really underwhelming compared to gigs like Brussels or Newcastle 86… it could've been one of the best Magic tour versions, dammit!
As I have said in other UA-cam vids...Queen was the best. Saw them live in 1985 (Works tour - Melbourne). Freddy and the band were amazing. Even the Stones weren't as good live.
Didn't exactly JOIN Queen, he was just a touring member. Freddie just wanted to be able to run around on stage while someone else handled the keyboards on some songs.
Spike Edney. The same guy who's playing rhythm guitar next to Brian May. Sometimes called the "fifth member of Queen"... and basically got upgraded to _third_ member when Freddie died and Deacy retired.
Yeah, he was added when Freddie wanted to do more straight-up vocals in shows, and run around more. It's weird, actually, because touring members of bands _never_ get focused on. From Chuck Leavell and Daryl Jones of the Stones to whoever that was playing in the back of the Neon Trees concert that wasn't Chris Allen when I saw them live, nobody calls attention to people that aren't big names and aren't main members of the band. (That performance also had me going, "Wow, Elaine is so MASCULINE today", and it was the third song before Tyler said "oh, by the way, Elaine's taking maternity leave" and I don't remember if he even said the guy's name.)
![Queen - Hammer To Fall [Rock In Rio '85]](/img/n.gif)
I was a 70's/80's kid and kind of always took Queen for granted. It's funny how you never know when you are seeing true greatness until they are gone. This is simply godlike.
Dave Rindone - Dave I couldn't have said it better as to your view Queen and their level of "GOD LIKE GREATNESS." I was born in 1975 and man through the 80s did I EVER take this genius group for granted and had I had a chance to go back ... I would have FOUND a way to see Queen ... now Freddie and the band are my absolute favourite rock group... love you Freddie .... a true Music God... 🙏🏻
I am a huge Led Zeppelin fan and love Robert Plant but IMO there will probably NEVER be a front as good as Freddie Mercury. He was simply a showman extraordinaire!
Robert was like the Grand Wizard Viking Blues Seducer - lol Freddie was just the f'ing Commander Queen. LOL
Edward Anthony Leone plant couldn’t carry his mustache trim kit
@@nascarfantasyadvice7954 NAH JUST DIFFERENT PLANT...PLANTS MELODIES ALONE, EVEN IMPROVISED, WERE BRILLIANT AS WAS HIS PHRASING....HAD VOCAL SURGERY CAUSE HE HURT HIS VOICE EARLY ON BUT PLANT 68-73 UNREAL
You're right. I saw Queen at Madison Square Garden and it was an unbelievable show. Freddy held everyone in the palm of his hand and you left feeling like the show was just for you.
Oh, the opener was a little known guy named Billy Squire.....
Paul Stanley of KISS is in this category as well as David Lee Roth. Same presence.
The best version of QUEEN ever
Love how Spike Edney is just getting into the performance
Wow I love this clip of Hammer to fall with the Spikey Guitar playing at 2:00 , Brilliant perfomance, Brought a tear to eyes as he creep up behind Brian May, This great performance goes down in History in my books, Freddie is the King of Rock n Roll.
The sound of the guitars here is so much better than the other day on Wembley. Brian here is not too overtreble. Also liked he played the pre-solo in the key of C instead of just riffing he did the other day. So this version is my favorite of two 86 Wembleys
Yeah this version's much better than the 2nd night's crap (literally one of the WORST versions ever if you have heard the unoverdubbed version)
I really loved the way Freddie said - “ hammer to fall “ at the beginning ❤️
i love how when he sings "lock your door cos rain is pouring" it begins to rain :D
gotDAM i LOVE this song. And especially this video, I daresay it might be the best ever version of the song. --- Brian and Spike ❤️❤️❤️ - BEASTS!!!!
Brian May and Spike Edney at 2.16 simply magnificent!!!!!
Brian is so gorgeous when he smiles.
I noticed that too !
Because this is the song he wrote that's why Bri smiles
He looks like a proud Dad, you know? Lol!
Love you then and Love you still forever Freddie
Saw them in 78 in Oakland..Fan for 45 years
"I think everybody knows I can't play the fucking guitar, we all know that." 😂😂😂
Nunca me cansao de escuchar hamer to fall es una leyenda del rock🎉🎉❤❤
I love the solo at 2:27.
agreed, and seconded.
Brian May and Eric Clapton are Gods on how to transition into, through and out of a solo live and in the studio versions of their music.
Johan P Absolitelt, they both posess excellent technical finesse and tastefulness.
The instrumentals solo like dude on the drums plus guitar all really MAKES it for me just awesome LOVE this.
laJah575 SO TRUE- ME 2
Seen them at MCFC's Maine Road that tour/year, 16.07.1986 Magic Tour, absolutely outstanding!
You can see the struggle of freddie singing. But still a slaying legend!!
Mostly cos he was suffering from flu I believe whilst doing this show. Budapest was the following show, seemed to have no issue.
I'm falling in love with queen!
Mister Edney really does have the look of someone who's like, "Wow, I'm on stage with QUEEN." This is not a bad thing, by the way. Though if he'd known he'd be playing with at least two of these guys for over twenty years...
I bet if someone had said to him before he joined you'll be playing with a legendary rock band such as Queen for over twenty years he'd have thought them crazy
Spike Edney is the unofficial fifth member of the band. He plays for long time with Queen and plays for today :)
awesome guitarist Brian May
Poor John. No one ever talks about him
Better than the second night
This one is not overdubbed
And Freddie's voice is really good. Top
one of the guys best songs Rip Freddie🙏🙏🙏🙏
Queen live was amazing
Epic performance!!!
Roger on fire!! Fantastic.
Freddie is the king 🤴 of rock n roll
Fab show best in the 80s Freddie rock it 💯🤘
Grandissimo Freddie.
Queen es una bendición en la música
Una sola palabra ellos son QUEEN y su alma creativa y voz unica FREDDIE MERCURY ❤
Freddie's voice was so powerful it could knock a hole in the side of a house. The Friday show is *massively* better than the Saturday show!!!
Paul CooperMusic wasn't the Saturday show longer
@@jacobpotts2498 Yeah it's probably why his voice suffered.
Roger amazing
Ham-mer to - ham-mer to- Ham-mer to... FALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Freddie is sick there, struggling alittle ...but that fucker is putting EVERYTHING out there...glad to have seen in the 70's and at Live Aid...though on a screen in Philly...there will NEVER be anyone as good...
+Don Kernan Sick how? Yes, he has HIV but he doesn't have AIDS yet.
Back then HIV made you sick...Freddie was symptomatic at that time
Don is right; Jim Hutton and several others said that Freddie was experiencing fatigue well before Wembley. Fatigue or not: he was a phenomenon. From another planet. Nobody could captivate an audience and steal hearts like Fred. Long live the Queen!
Don Kernan
Don't see where Freddie is sick in this performance.
Hammer to Fall has alot of places to rest. Check the Radio Gaga performance, he isn't singing many of the high notes he usually did, even compared to live aid just a year prior. He also seems to sound a bit stuffy on some of the notes there as well. It is on the back end of the concert though, so non-HIV related fatigue would be in play by that point and make him seem worse than he actually felt.
Simplesmente o melhor.....
Happy Birthday freddie ! You're the best !
classic song I love it I think one of my favorites
Wait...both shows were recorded?! Having been a die-hard Queen fan for most of my life, I am shocked that I did not know this.
4:51 What a voice
only Freddie could wear a shirt like that and still be cool :)
I love your clothes!
Gotta love spike
Magnific song the band the rock Queen
Siempre Freddie! ❤❤ el mejor cantante del mundo, y Queen la mejor banda
I’m so sad I never got to see them live :(
We are just waiting for the Hammer To Fall!
+Ricardo Grande It fell
The legend,the King. The Queen 😊🤘🤘🤘🤘
4:00 top!!!
we miss you freddie
Tickets for this gig were only £14.50. I know that's 1986 prices but even still that's only £43 in today's money, fantastic value for money
The best rendition of this song..recorded properly
No… the best recorded version was Tokyo 5/11/1985 & Stuttgart 1984 (and they’re the top 2 HTF performances of all time)
Freddie Mercury, Forever the of best World
Spike Edney used to help out on guitar, but at the Tribute Concert For AIDS Awareness, he didn't have to. They had Tony Iommi instead.
Rock and Roll Thunder at it's best at 2:45 ... they really did sound great live..saw them 4 times...
Lucky you! Where and when did you see them? Could you share more of your experience?
@@rickysld I saw them 4 times, all in St. Louis, USA
Queen - Sheet Heart Attack Tour 1975
Queen - A Night at the Opera 1976
Queen - Day at the Races 1977
Queen - Jazz Tour 1978
The first time was the most impressive during their Sheer Heart Attack Tour. If you watch the “Live At The Rainbow '74” or the 1975 “A Night At The Odeon“ DvDs, they sounded a lot like that. The version of “Seven Seas Of Rhye” on the 1974 DvD comes closest to what I remember. Perhaps the best concert I’ve ever been terms of performance and sound. Freddie’s voice was great, almost unbelievable. Brian May is the most consistently great rock guitar player I’ve ever seen live. More so than Jimmy Page for sure, who sounded awful when I saw Zep in ’77 in the same arena I saw Queen perform at. They were so good live that rock magazines at the time hinted at rumors that Queen was lip-syncing to tape, but there is no evidence of that. They did however leave the stage during the middle part of “Bohemian Rhapsody” because that is too complicated to do live. I think they were at their peak for live performances during the mid 1970s:
Queen- Seven Seas of Rhye (Live 1974):
ua-cam.com/video/38xkDA_Q9rU/v-deo.html
Queen - Keep Yourself Alive (Live At The Rainbow):
ua-cam.com/video/wBrb0jIR2_8/v-deo.html
Probably the first vocally perfect version of this song in 86! Sadly Brian’s solos are really underwhelming compared to gigs like Brussels or Newcastle 86… it could've been one of the best Magic tour versions, dammit!
Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
roger taylors voice hahaha ;) 3:44 the best solo ..... hammer to roll and and beers for all!!!
haha the ending is great :D
John's short shorts bahahaha
ROCK ON !
QUEEN FOREVER !
VICKI S
THANK YOU FOR THAT # 1 !
HAMMER TO FALL -
FREDDIE MERCURY (QUEEN)
LIVE AT WEMBLEY STADIUM 1986
anyone like freddie you are were will be the only one sos grande fred we miss you
Major Spike Edney on rhythm guitar.
Yes
гениально!
Freedy one and only
3:59
Deacon John why you no wear pants?
+Caitlin Belforti He was wearing shorts..................
'cause I'm a f*@#%n rock star and I can! ;)
He is....he just borrowed a pair of short shorts from John Stockton.
He was wearing shorts but because how long the t-shirt was
Spike Edney looks like a coolest guy!
5:40 how funny Freddie can be hahaha!
He is Spike Edney
en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Spike_Edney (Copy the link without the space)
As I have said in other UA-cam vids...Queen was the best. Saw them live in 1985 (Works tour - Melbourne). Freddy and the band were amazing. Even the Stones weren't as good live.
Greatest front man ever, not in order, Elvis, Freddie, Michael Jackson, Little Richard
Freddye Mercury eterno : uma lenda !!!
I mean the rain is visible...
I ADORE Freddie, but Brian really stole it at the end there didnt he...
Queendouthenthdieswithmiigh
On another night at Wembley, with Spike, they did a MUCH better rendition of this....check it out!
That’s your opinion. I think this is better and the other night is over dubbed and his voice this Show is stronger.
Wait who's that guy who is playing guitar with Brian?????????
Ann Marie Milligan Spike Edny
Wait why would spike join queen????, it's supposed to be 4 members not 5!!!!!!
Didn't exactly JOIN Queen, he was just a touring member. Freddie just wanted to be able to run around on stage while someone else handled the keyboards on some songs.
Hi
1:27 ...oh Deaks :3
what is this man Brian at 2:05 next? :)
Freddie was a tiger 🐯 prancing
HAMMER TO FALL - FREDDIE MERCURY - QUEEN
LIVE AT WEMBLEY STADIUM 1986 (LONDON)
QUEEN FANS
THANK YOU FOR THAT # 1 !
HAMMER TO FALL !
HAMMER TO FALL AND
CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE
BACK TO BACK !
QUEEN LIVE AT WEMBLEY 1986
VICKI S
THANK YOU FOR THAT 2ND # 1 !
HAMMER TO FALL -
FREDDIE MERCURY (QUEEN)
LIVE AT WEMBLEY STADIUM 1986
HAMMER TO FALL
FREDDIE MERCURY - QUEEN
LIVE AT WEMBLEY STADIUM 1986
@luiaug07
Sure
Spike Edney
Great performance. Maybe a little less energy than when they played this song in live aid.
This one was a tad slower; Live Aid was timed, they had to get through it
Who's playing keyboard?
Spike Edney. The same guy who's playing rhythm guitar next to Brian May. Sometimes called the "fifth member of Queen"... and basically got upgraded to _third_ member when Freddie died and Deacy retired.
John Wozniak ah, thanks, I've been wondering who that was. He's in so many live shows but very few know of him.
Yeah, he was added when Freddie wanted to do more straight-up vocals in shows, and run around more.
It's weird, actually, because touring members of bands _never_ get focused on. From Chuck Leavell and Daryl Jones of the Stones to whoever that was playing in the back of the Neon Trees concert that wasn't Chris Allen when I saw them live, nobody calls attention to people that aren't big names and aren't main members of the band. (That performance also had me going, "Wow, Elaine is so MASCULINE today", and it was the third song before Tyler said "oh, by the way, Elaine's taking maternity leave" and I don't remember if he even said the guy's name.)
And it seems like he's still with them, as I've seen him in keyboards with Lambert.
Heesmakingafoolofyui
Tes
live aid was better. just sayin
No
i sometimes think john deacon was the gay one shorts on stage the quite one at the back
Jaleadspks what a stupid thing to say..
It was never him
❤Queen❤