1 00:00:02,500 --> 00:00:05,900 This programme contains strong language. 2 00:00:05,900 --> 00:00:10,940 In the summer of 2017, Queen embarked on a sell-out tour of North America. 3 00:00:16,100 --> 00:00:20,820 It followed in the footsteps of their breakthrough tour from 40 years before, 4 00:00:20,820 --> 00:00:23,940 revisiting many of the same cities and once again 5 00:00:23,940 --> 00:00:28,940 performing songs that are now amongst the biggest in rock history. 6 00:00:29,220 --> 00:00:30,740 # We will, we will rock you... # 7 00:00:33,140 --> 00:00:35,100 You know, it's incredible. 8 00:00:35,100 --> 00:00:40,140 About 40 years ago, four precocious boys came from England 9 00:00:40,140 --> 00:00:43,020 to see what we could do in this beautiful country of yours. 10 00:00:44,260 --> 00:00:47,940 We were here in 1977, maybe some of you were too, right? 11 00:00:47,940 --> 00:00:50,060 CHEERING You remember? 12 00:00:56,340 --> 00:01:00,100 Back in 1977, as a young BBC music presenter, 13 00:01:00,100 --> 00:01:04,100 I was asked to make a film about the band as they recorded and toured 14 00:01:04,100 --> 00:01:07,020 their sixth album, News Of The World. 15 00:01:07,020 --> 00:01:08,940 Bob and Freddie, take seven. 16 00:01:08,940 --> 00:01:11,260 That film was never put together, 17 00:01:11,260 --> 00:01:14,220 but now to mark the album's 40th anniversary, 18 00:01:14,220 --> 00:01:17,780 we've uncovered and restored this long-lost footage. 19 00:01:17,780 --> 00:01:19,660 I'll have to sing it, go on, and again. 20 00:01:19,660 --> 00:01:23,900 The News Of The World tour was to be Queen's most ambitious yet, 21 00:01:23,900 --> 00:01:28,860 playing 26 concerts across North America in just six weeks. 22 00:01:28,860 --> 00:01:32,620 I was wondering, what targets do you have left to achieve? 23 00:01:32,620 --> 00:01:34,460 Number one album in America. 24 00:01:34,460 --> 00:01:37,980 We were given unprecedented behind-the-scenes access. 25 00:01:37,980 --> 00:01:40,340 Oh, you've caught me in a good mood! 26 00:01:40,340 --> 00:01:44,020 I'd watched the band grow over the previous few years, 27 00:01:44,020 --> 00:01:48,340 topping the UK charts and playing every conceivable venue. 28 00:01:48,340 --> 00:01:51,540 They rocked Britain, but could they rock the world? 29 00:01:51,540 --> 00:01:56,620 # We will, we will rock you... # 30 00:01:59,820 --> 00:02:04,900 By 1977, Queen were a successful headliner act with a loyal fan base. 31 00:02:05,580 --> 00:02:09,140 MUSIC: Somebody To Love 32 00:02:10,620 --> 00:02:15,420 Their two most recent albums were a tour de force of multi-part harmonies and 33 00:02:15,420 --> 00:02:17,300 technical complexity, 34 00:02:17,300 --> 00:02:21,700 which required unprecedented recording time in the studio. 35 00:02:21,700 --> 00:02:24,740 # But I just can't get no relief 36 00:02:24,740 --> 00:02:25,780 # Lord, somebody 37 00:02:25,780 --> 00:02:26,820 #Somebody 38 00:02:26,820 --> 00:02:27,860 # Somebody 39 00:02:27,860 --> 00:02:28,860 #Somebody 40 00:02:28,860 --> 00:02:30,300 # Can anybody find me...? # 41 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:32,340 Despite achieving a number of hits, 42 00:02:32,340 --> 00:02:35,580 they were battling an increasingly hostile press. 43 00:02:39,940 --> 00:02:44,180 And dealing with the music scene that was being altered by the arrival of punk. 44 00:02:50,820 --> 00:02:54,220 The whole punk movement was said to be a reaction against 45 00:02:54,220 --> 00:02:57,580 people like us, you know, who had raised their art to a high point. 46 00:02:59,140 --> 00:03:01,820 I thought when we went into News Of The World, you know, 47 00:03:01,820 --> 00:03:05,020 we couldn't reinvent ourselves as a punk band. 48 00:03:05,020 --> 00:03:06,820 But we wanted it a little bit more 49 00:03:06,820 --> 00:03:09,940 simple because we thought maybe these really grandiose things 50 00:03:09,940 --> 00:03:12,220 weren't really quite what was happening then, 51 00:03:12,220 --> 00:03:15,340 and to be more of the time, I guess. 52 00:03:15,340 --> 00:03:17,300 We made a more straightforward record. 53 00:03:17,300 --> 00:03:20,340 It was just that we had gone as far as we possibly could into this sort 54 00:03:20,340 --> 00:03:25,180 of baroque, complex, incredibly elaborate arrangements stuff, and we thought, 55 00:03:25,180 --> 00:03:28,420 well, it would be fun to go back to the way we used to play when we first 56 00:03:28,420 --> 00:03:31,420 started. Which would be quite simple, guitar, bass 57 00:03:31,420 --> 00:03:34,420 and drums and vocals as well. 58 00:03:34,420 --> 00:03:35,820 I really like News Of The World. 59 00:03:35,820 --> 00:03:37,580 It's one of my favourites, I think. 60 00:03:39,980 --> 00:03:43,060 And of course, it had two monster singles on it, 61 00:03:43,060 --> 00:03:45,060 We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions. 62 00:03:45,060 --> 00:03:47,740 We always thought of them as a pair. 63 00:03:47,740 --> 00:03:49,980 We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions 64 00:03:49,980 --> 00:03:52,220 had a very sort of definite genesis. 65 00:03:52,220 --> 00:03:55,700 We played this great hall in the Midlands, and it was packed, 66 00:03:55,700 --> 00:03:57,860 it was heaving. You know, those gigs that you love. 67 00:03:57,860 --> 00:03:59,220 It's all sweaty and hot. 68 00:03:59,220 --> 00:04:01,300 The atmosphere is great. Everybody's in it. 69 00:04:01,300 --> 00:04:03,780 Everybody's jumping up and down, making a noise. 70 00:04:03,780 --> 00:04:05,740 And what they were doing was singing along. 71 00:04:06,980 --> 00:04:10,020 They didn't stop. They sang every note of every song. 72 00:04:11,300 --> 00:04:14,980 And when we went offstage, they sang You'll Never Walk Alone to us. 73 00:04:14,980 --> 00:04:18,700 Now, in those days, it was really new, I have to tell you. 74 00:04:18,700 --> 00:04:23,020 You just didn't go to concerts where people sang to rock bands. 75 00:04:23,020 --> 00:04:26,260 So we went home that night thinking, "What do we do here? 76 00:04:26,260 --> 00:04:28,540 "What does this mean? What does this mean for our future?" 77 00:04:28,540 --> 00:04:31,740 Obviously the audience is as big a part of the show as we are now. 78 00:04:31,740 --> 00:04:33,780 So let's embrace it. 79 00:04:33,780 --> 00:04:36,460 What can an audience do? What could you ask them to do? 80 00:04:36,460 --> 00:04:39,340 They're all crammed in there, they can't do much, you know, 81 00:04:39,340 --> 00:04:42,740 but they can stamp their feet and they can clap their hands and they can sing. 82 00:04:42,740 --> 00:04:45,820 And they would be leading the song rather than the singer. 83 00:04:45,820 --> 00:04:48,020 So I woke up with We Will Rock You in my head. 84 00:04:50,580 --> 00:04:53,140 MUSIC: We Will Rock You 85 00:04:53,140 --> 00:04:56,620 I sang the song to Freddie and he went, "Yeah. 86 00:04:56,620 --> 00:04:59,580 "It's going to work." He twigged that it was a kind of rallying song. 87 00:04:59,580 --> 00:05:01,180 # Buddy, you're a boy 88 00:05:01,180 --> 00:05:02,780 # Make a big noise playing in the street 89 00:05:02,780 --> 00:05:05,060 # Gonna be a big man someday 90 00:05:05,060 --> 00:05:06,700 # You got mud on your face 91 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:08,300 # You big disgrace 92 00:05:08,300 --> 00:05:10,900 # Kickin' your can all over the place 93 00:05:10,900 --> 00:05:12,580 # Singin' we will, we will... # 94 00:05:12,580 --> 00:05:16,420 In my head, it was a song of the three Ages of Man. 95 00:05:16,420 --> 00:05:20,100 The first age is the boy who thinks he can change the world. 96 00:05:20,100 --> 00:05:23,380 The second stage is the man who thinks he is changing the world. 97 00:05:23,380 --> 00:05:26,020 # Buddy, you're a young man, hard man shouting in the street 98 00:05:26,020 --> 00:05:28,660 # Gonna take on the world someday 99 00:05:28,660 --> 00:05:30,300 # You got blood on your face 100 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:31,660 # A big disgrace 101 00:05:31,660 --> 00:05:35,060 # Waving your banner all over the place... # 102 00:05:35,060 --> 00:05:38,980 And the third stage is the old man coming to terms with the fact that 103 00:05:38,980 --> 00:05:41,060 there's only a certain amount he can do. 104 00:05:41,060 --> 00:05:43,940 It's like the serenity prayer, you know, change what you can change, 105 00:05:43,940 --> 00:05:46,740 but get used to it that you can't achieve everything. 106 00:05:46,740 --> 00:05:48,740 # Buddy, you're an old man 107 00:05:48,740 --> 00:05:50,300 # Poor man pleadin' with your eyes 108 00:05:50,300 --> 00:05:52,580 # Gonna make you some peace someday 109 00:05:52,580 --> 00:05:53,980 # You got mud on your face 110 00:05:53,980 --> 00:05:55,260 # Big disgrace 111 00:05:55,260 --> 00:05:58,020 # Somebody better put you back into your place 112 00:05:58,020 --> 00:06:02,540 # We will, we will rock you... # 113 00:06:02,540 --> 00:06:05,300 Sing it! 114 00:06:05,300 --> 00:06:07,220 So I came up with We Will Rock You, 115 00:06:07,220 --> 00:06:09,740 and Freddie came up with We Are The Champions. 116 00:06:13,980 --> 00:06:16,140 Do you enjoy record production, Fred? 117 00:06:16,140 --> 00:06:18,260 Do you enjoy working in the studio? 118 00:06:18,260 --> 00:06:23,300 Erm, yes. You can get sick of it, though. 119 00:06:23,340 --> 00:06:25,220 Especially now. 120 00:06:25,220 --> 00:06:29,180 We've decided that on our albums, 121 00:06:29,180 --> 00:06:33,020 we wouldn't spend as much time as we've done in the past. 122 00:06:33,020 --> 00:06:36,260 Because I just think that, 123 00:06:36,260 --> 00:06:39,580 especially with News Of The World, 124 00:06:39,580 --> 00:06:44,140 I think we actually did decide before we went in that it was going to be a short album. 125 00:06:44,140 --> 00:06:46,420 As far as Queen standards are concerned. 126 00:06:46,420 --> 00:06:49,300 So that was like two months instead of four. 127 00:06:49,300 --> 00:06:53,460 We had something like a week and a half to two weeks to actually write all the material. 128 00:06:53,460 --> 00:06:57,180 And it was nice. We didn't fall into this thing of it being over-ripe 129 00:06:57,180 --> 00:06:58,820 before we actually recorded it. 130 00:07:09,580 --> 00:07:11,580 A Day At The Races, we spent five or 131 00:07:11,580 --> 00:07:14,180 six months in the studio, and very long hours. 132 00:07:14,180 --> 00:07:16,860 So, just physically, you couldn't be in the studio all the time. 133 00:07:16,860 --> 00:07:20,740 News Of The World leads back to a more spontaneous 134 00:07:20,740 --> 00:07:22,940 kind of creation of an album. 135 00:07:22,940 --> 00:07:24,860 Because of the nature of the way that we did it, 136 00:07:24,860 --> 00:07:28,060 we were all in the studio at the same time for an amount of the time. 137 00:07:28,060 --> 00:07:31,060 And it was more of a group thing than perhaps A Day At The Races was. 138 00:07:32,980 --> 00:07:35,060 It was easy, because it was so simple. 139 00:07:35,060 --> 00:07:38,380 After what we'd been doing, learning the stuff on News Of The World, 140 00:07:38,380 --> 00:07:41,940 it was almost de rigueur to do it quick because you didn't want to mess 141 00:07:41,940 --> 00:07:44,500 around with it too much. You didn't want to polish it too much, 142 00:07:44,500 --> 00:07:46,380 you wanted to keep the rawness there. 143 00:07:46,380 --> 00:07:48,580 MUSIC: We Are The Champions (backing track) 144 00:09:01,500 --> 00:09:08,500 # We are the champions 145 00:09:08,500 --> 00:09:11,300 # No time for losers... # 146 00:09:11,300 --> 00:09:13,500 Especially a group in our stage of career 147 00:09:13,500 --> 00:09:16,900 can fall into the trap where we can have as much time as we want in the 148 00:09:16,900 --> 00:09:18,900 studio. And you can just go and say, "Look, 149 00:09:18,900 --> 00:09:21,020 "I'd like to try another area of this." 150 00:09:21,020 --> 00:09:25,220 But now I think it's up to us to decide, from the very onset, 151 00:09:25,220 --> 00:09:28,340 that this is the decision, this is what we're going to arrive at, 152 00:09:28,340 --> 00:09:30,900 before we got there. And we were going to say, "OK, this is it." 153 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:32,900 And I feel I did that. 154 00:09:32,900 --> 00:09:37,340 I mean, OK, I could forever go around saying that I could have done, say, We Are The Champions 155 00:09:37,340 --> 00:09:40,740 a bit better. But I think I quite actually liked saying, "Look, 156 00:09:40,740 --> 00:09:43,300 "I've made my sort of decision now. 157 00:09:43,300 --> 00:09:46,780 "And we're going to stick to it." And it's worked out pretty well. 158 00:09:56,940 --> 00:09:59,820 That was a lovely feel. That's exactly how it should be. 159 00:09:59,820 --> 00:10:02,340 Can I have another cup of coffee? Sorry. Sounding quite nice. 160 00:10:02,340 --> 00:10:05,260 OK, cup of coffee coming, anybody else want anything? 161 00:10:05,260 --> 00:10:06,580 Yes, please, I'll have a cup. 162 00:10:06,580 --> 00:10:08,260 I'll have a cup with one sugar, please. 163 00:10:08,260 --> 00:10:11,780 Right, that's three coffees, with one sugar, one of them. 164 00:10:11,780 --> 00:10:14,620 One and three-sevenths sugars, please. 165 00:10:14,620 --> 00:10:16,580 Three sugars? 166 00:10:16,580 --> 00:10:18,780 No, one and three-sevenths. Seven sugars? 167 00:10:18,780 --> 00:10:20,180 One and three-sevenths! 168 00:10:20,180 --> 00:10:22,340 Is this on? 169 00:10:22,340 --> 00:10:24,140 Test, test. Knock, knock. Hello? 170 00:10:24,140 --> 00:10:25,220 DRUMS PLAY 171 00:10:43,900 --> 00:10:46,660 Think we got a hundred... That's better. 172 00:10:46,660 --> 00:10:50,060 How does the studio situation work, Freddie? 173 00:10:50,060 --> 00:10:53,820 You mean, amongst us? Yes. 174 00:10:53,820 --> 00:10:55,860 Between us? Yeah. If I write a song, 175 00:10:55,860 --> 00:10:59,580 and I sort of take it upon myself from the actual writing stages 176 00:10:59,580 --> 00:11:02,540 to the rehearsing, to the routining, and to the recording, 177 00:11:02,540 --> 00:11:05,660 as being my project, so I sort of handle that. 178 00:11:05,660 --> 00:11:09,340 With my kind of songs, I seem I sort of, more or less, 179 00:11:09,340 --> 00:11:10,740 have everything rehearsed. 180 00:11:10,740 --> 00:11:12,500 I mean, everything sort of written out. 181 00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:14,860 # I've taken my bows 182 00:11:14,860 --> 00:11:18,020 # And my curtain calls... # 183 00:11:19,460 --> 00:11:21,500 It's still repeating. 184 00:11:21,500 --> 00:11:23,140 # You brought me fame and fortune 185 00:11:23,140 --> 00:11:24,980 # And everything that goes with it... # 186 00:11:24,980 --> 00:11:27,740 I want it on a pan. What, the echo, yeah? 187 00:11:27,740 --> 00:11:29,860 So that I can... Yeah, yeah. It will be. 188 00:11:29,860 --> 00:11:32,700 He had a vision and he was 189 00:11:32,700 --> 00:11:35,740 very driven and he was very good on the desk, you know? 190 00:11:35,740 --> 00:11:40,820 And very good moving the faders, balancing the harmonies and getting the things 191 00:11:40,820 --> 00:11:44,100 to do what he wanted. But then we would pitch in with each other's songs, 192 00:11:44,100 --> 00:11:47,220 and then sometimes we'd all get together to mix it. 193 00:11:47,220 --> 00:11:50,300 When did you begin to get to a stage where you felt, between you, 194 00:11:50,300 --> 00:11:53,100 that you could take over the desk yourselves completely? 195 00:11:53,100 --> 00:11:56,580 It comes to a stage where all you really need is an engineer, really, 196 00:11:56,580 --> 00:12:00,860 because the idea of balancing sounds you want, you know, it's... 197 00:12:00,860 --> 00:12:04,780 An artist or musician should really know what they want, you know? 198 00:12:04,780 --> 00:12:07,780 And the only person needed to implement that is an engineer, 199 00:12:07,780 --> 00:12:10,980 really, in a way. And when you're doing a mix, you know, 200 00:12:10,980 --> 00:12:13,620 and you're mixing down the track from the tapes. 201 00:12:13,620 --> 00:12:15,740 I mean, it's setting it up. 202 00:12:15,740 --> 00:12:19,580 And then we actually sit down and work the controls as well, you know... 203 00:12:19,580 --> 00:12:22,380 Yeah. Can you remember which vocals, which solos we used? 204 00:12:23,540 --> 00:12:25,460 Well, if I hear, then I'll know. 205 00:12:26,580 --> 00:12:29,300 Because here, we've got three tracks, four tracks of vocals. 206 00:12:29,300 --> 00:12:31,940 One with a solo guitar and then that's got "end bit solo". 207 00:12:31,940 --> 00:12:34,900 Well, listen to them, darling, that's the only way we can do it. 208 00:12:39,620 --> 00:12:43,300 That's your writing, isn't it, that one? No, it's all, it's all... 209 00:12:43,300 --> 00:12:45,220 ..Mike's. 210 00:12:45,220 --> 00:12:49,420 What are you doing now? I'm just going to get a rough balance, OK? OK. 211 00:12:52,540 --> 00:12:54,500 MUSIC PLAYS 212 00:13:20,100 --> 00:13:22,940 There must be more than this. 213 00:13:22,940 --> 00:13:26,220 Must be more what? Oh, that's the one, I think. 214 00:13:26,220 --> 00:13:29,020 There are two guitars. 215 00:13:35,380 --> 00:13:37,780 Yeah. But there's two guitars. 216 00:13:37,780 --> 00:13:39,540 One crosses over. 217 00:13:39,540 --> 00:13:41,020 Right... 218 00:13:41,020 --> 00:13:42,980 Do you remember? Yes, I remember. 219 00:13:42,980 --> 00:13:45,860 That one is... Go back to the other place and we'll find out. 220 00:13:46,940 --> 00:13:49,140 Just the last chorus of the note? See if you could use... 221 00:13:49,140 --> 00:13:51,500 Do you want to do a guitar or something? I suppose we could. 222 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:52,660 It would sound different. 223 00:13:52,660 --> 00:13:56,940 Do you want to do a guitar bit in there, squeeze it in? 224 00:13:56,940 --> 00:13:59,540 Work out your guitar so you can mix... 225 00:13:59,540 --> 00:14:01,940 Roger, do you want to come in here and just do... 226 00:14:01,940 --> 00:14:03,580 The kit? Yeah. 227 00:14:03,580 --> 00:14:06,020 MUSIC PLAYS 228 00:14:30,380 --> 00:14:32,220 More bass, please. 229 00:14:32,220 --> 00:14:33,820 Erm... Back to cylinders. 230 00:14:33,820 --> 00:14:37,100 What do you think for sounds? I mean, I think we should just... 231 00:14:37,100 --> 00:14:38,900 Yeah, it sounds all right to me. 232 00:14:38,900 --> 00:14:43,900 He's only done drum sounds at the moment. 233 00:14:43,900 --> 00:14:47,220 That's right. Oh, that's why it sounds all right to me. 234 00:14:48,660 --> 00:14:50,300 Let's open a bottle of wine. 235 00:14:50,300 --> 00:14:53,140 Yes, where is the screwdriver? 236 00:14:53,140 --> 00:14:56,300 Congratulations, you're number one on the Hit Line at the moment. 237 00:14:56,300 --> 00:14:57,820 How's that for loyalty? 238 00:14:57,820 --> 00:15:00,820 I think it's great. It's a very good instant reaction 239 00:15:00,820 --> 00:15:03,140 to what we put out. 240 00:15:03,140 --> 00:15:06,900 And only Queen could come up with the title, We Are The Champions. 241 00:15:06,900 --> 00:15:08,420 I mean, where's the modesty gone? 242 00:15:08,420 --> 00:15:12,060 Well, there isn't any. There's no modesty whatsoever. 243 00:15:12,060 --> 00:15:16,620 After the slaggings off that we get from the English music press, well, who cares? 244 00:15:16,620 --> 00:15:18,740 So we've got nothing to lose now. 245 00:15:18,740 --> 00:15:22,540 Because pulling We Are The Champions, off the new album, 246 00:15:22,540 --> 00:15:25,860 that seems to me to have thoughts and sentiments in it that you must've 247 00:15:25,860 --> 00:15:28,540 been wanting to express for some time. 248 00:15:28,540 --> 00:15:32,540 Is that true? Oh, I'm a cold, heartless bugger. 249 00:15:32,540 --> 00:15:33,900 No, it has absolutely nothing. 250 00:15:33,900 --> 00:15:36,580 It's just pure commercial, call it what you like. 251 00:15:36,580 --> 00:15:40,940 Can you go easy on the stage lights because they're so fucking hot? 252 00:15:42,100 --> 00:15:44,980 Oh, that's a bit better for now. 253 00:15:44,980 --> 00:15:48,180 It's the most egotistical and arrogant song I've ever written. 254 00:15:48,180 --> 00:15:49,180 Was it? 255 00:15:49,180 --> 00:15:50,420 HE BLOWS A RASPBERRY 256 00:15:50,420 --> 00:15:53,860 I was kind of quite shocked because I thought, "Are we really 257 00:15:53,860 --> 00:15:56,940 "going to stand up and say we are the champions as opposed to every other group 258 00:15:56,940 --> 00:15:59,060 "and every other person on the face of this Earth?" 259 00:15:59,060 --> 00:16:02,060 You know, and he says, "Actually that's not what it is." 260 00:16:02,060 --> 00:16:04,300 And he said rock and roll is the only place 261 00:16:04,300 --> 00:16:07,060 where everybody has a feeling of, like, being in a team, 262 00:16:07,060 --> 00:16:08,980 but you're not fighting anybody. 263 00:16:08,980 --> 00:16:11,740 It'd work if you could dodge down a bit lower even still. Oh, but... 264 00:16:11,740 --> 00:16:14,900 Then you can't see, there's no way you'll see the notes. 265 00:16:14,900 --> 00:16:17,780 There's no way you will see them. I can't... It doesn't work, huh? 266 00:16:17,780 --> 00:16:19,020 Yeah. 267 00:16:19,020 --> 00:16:20,940 The only way is to put a sheet over my head. 268 00:16:20,940 --> 00:16:22,620 Have you got a black card, or...? 269 00:16:22,620 --> 00:16:25,180 Or just a bit of black drape that we can put in front. 270 00:16:25,180 --> 00:16:26,460 Black drape? Yeah. 271 00:16:27,500 --> 00:16:29,980 Basically, it is a participation thing. 272 00:16:29,980 --> 00:16:32,540 I've been... I'm just thinking in terms of how 273 00:16:32,540 --> 00:16:35,100 maybe we're going to sort of adapt it on stage, 274 00:16:35,100 --> 00:16:36,460 and how people are going to... 275 00:16:36,460 --> 00:16:38,300 It's a public... 276 00:16:39,300 --> 00:16:42,220 ..public/group thing, really. Yeah. 277 00:16:42,220 --> 00:16:45,180 We're going to be finishing off filming for We Are The Champions, 278 00:16:45,180 --> 00:16:48,700 which, of course, you know is the new single from the band, yeah? 279 00:16:48,700 --> 00:16:50,740 I don't know whether you've heard it, first of all. 280 00:16:50,740 --> 00:16:52,300 Have you heard it on the radio? 281 00:16:52,300 --> 00:16:53,380 AUDIENCE CHEERS 282 00:16:54,460 --> 00:16:57,860 I understand it's number two on the Hit Line on Capital Radio tonight... 283 00:16:57,860 --> 00:17:00,340 AUDIENCE CHEERS 284 00:17:04,340 --> 00:17:09,220 We'd like your involvement, if you would, towards the end, 285 00:17:09,220 --> 00:17:12,820 because if you've got any banners that you can wave towards the end... 286 00:17:12,820 --> 00:17:16,180 Hundreds, hundreds. I knew it. 287 00:17:16,180 --> 00:17:19,980 Get those out, shout and scream and sing with the band. 288 00:17:23,140 --> 00:17:25,700 # It's been no bed of roses 289 00:17:26,900 --> 00:17:29,100 # No pleasure cruise 290 00:17:30,580 --> 00:17:34,220 # I consider it a challenge before the whole human race 291 00:17:34,220 --> 00:17:37,140 # And I ain't gonna lose 292 00:17:37,140 --> 00:17:40,900 # And I mean to go on and on and on and on 293 00:17:40,900 --> 00:17:45,980 # We are the champions, my friends 294 00:17:49,060 --> 00:17:54,100 # And we'll keep on fighting till the end 295 00:17:56,700 --> 00:18:04,060 # We are the champions 296 00:18:04,060 --> 00:18:07,420 # No time for losers 297 00:18:07,420 --> 00:18:12,420 # Cos we are the champions of the world 298 00:18:15,100 --> 00:18:19,260 # We are the champions, my friends 299 00:18:20,540 --> 00:18:25,540 # And we'll keep on fighting till the end 300 00:18:27,540 --> 00:18:32,100 # Oh, we are the champions 301 00:18:32,100 --> 00:18:35,940 # We are the champions 302 00:18:35,940 --> 00:18:39,140 # No time for losers 303 00:18:39,140 --> 00:18:43,780 # Cos we are the champions... # 304 00:18:45,860 --> 00:18:48,500 I think Queen fans will be surprised 305 00:18:48,500 --> 00:18:51,820 because it's far more kind of raw than any other album, 306 00:18:51,820 --> 00:18:53,740 and also shorter tracks. 307 00:18:53,740 --> 00:18:57,900 I'm glad you said raw, cos that was exactly, really, what we wanted. 308 00:18:57,900 --> 00:18:59,500 OK, are you ready to rock 'n' roll? 309 00:19:01,340 --> 00:19:03,460 Most of that album is quite stripped down. 310 00:19:03,460 --> 00:19:05,620 There isn't a Bohemian Rhapsody on that album. 311 00:19:05,620 --> 00:19:07,580 It's very powerful, it's very raw. 312 00:19:07,580 --> 00:19:10,900 So, in a sense, we went a little bit sort of punky ourselves, I suppose. 313 00:19:10,900 --> 00:19:13,340 You get involved in quite a lot of music outside of the band, 314 00:19:13,340 --> 00:19:15,180 and outside of the band's style, don't you? 315 00:19:15,180 --> 00:19:17,580 I mean, I remember you talking really in the very early days, 316 00:19:17,580 --> 00:19:19,420 for example, about The Sex Pistols. 317 00:19:19,420 --> 00:19:21,180 If you hear something that's... 318 00:19:21,180 --> 00:19:24,420 ..or hear of something that's exciting... There's simply so few. 319 00:19:24,420 --> 00:19:28,780 # Well, you're just 17 and all you wanna do is disappear 320 00:19:30,380 --> 00:19:33,860 # You know what I mean - there's a lot of space between your ears 321 00:19:33,860 --> 00:19:35,700 # The way that you touch... # 322 00:19:35,700 --> 00:19:37,620 Roger was much more aware than the rest of us. 323 00:19:37,620 --> 00:19:39,660 He kept in touch with what was going on around him. 324 00:19:39,660 --> 00:19:42,060 I remember him talking about The Sex Pistols very early on 325 00:19:42,060 --> 00:19:43,660 and getting excited about it. 326 00:19:43,660 --> 00:19:45,860 I thought, you know, "This is so fresh," 327 00:19:45,860 --> 00:19:49,380 and I thought we needed a little bit of that kind of sensibility. 328 00:19:49,380 --> 00:19:51,700 Sheer Heart Attack, which is a song of Roger's 329 00:19:51,700 --> 00:19:53,820 which he'd been trying to get on an album at that time, 330 00:19:53,820 --> 00:19:55,860 we thought, "Oh, it makes sense in this context." 331 00:19:55,860 --> 00:19:57,540 Something simple and energetic. 332 00:19:57,540 --> 00:20:02,580 # Sheer heart attack... # 333 00:20:04,060 --> 00:20:06,900 It was sort of written a few years before, 334 00:20:06,900 --> 00:20:09,100 and I thought, "This fits perfectly, 335 00:20:09,100 --> 00:20:11,220 "this really fits in with what we're trying to do now," 336 00:20:11,220 --> 00:20:13,020 so we put it on that album - 337 00:20:13,020 --> 00:20:14,780 and it became a live staple. 338 00:20:16,260 --> 00:20:18,260 Murder to play on stage, it's so fast. 339 00:20:19,500 --> 00:20:23,860 # I feel so inar, inar, inar, inar inar, inar... 340 00:20:23,860 --> 00:20:28,900 # ..inar, inar, inar, inar inarticulate. # 341 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:32,180 We were making this album in north London, 342 00:20:32,180 --> 00:20:34,780 and in another studio just nearby was this young group 343 00:20:34,780 --> 00:20:36,060 called The Sex Pistols. 344 00:20:36,060 --> 00:20:38,020 We were literally next door for months. 345 00:20:38,020 --> 00:20:39,460 Sid Vicious came in. 346 00:20:39,460 --> 00:20:41,060 Sid was a moron, you know? 347 00:20:41,060 --> 00:20:42,900 He was an idiot. 348 00:20:42,900 --> 00:20:44,180 Fred played him a few things. 349 00:20:44,180 --> 00:20:46,180 He played him Sheer Heart Attack, actually. 350 00:20:46,180 --> 00:20:48,100 I think he said, "It sounds like The Cortinas." 351 00:20:48,100 --> 00:20:50,020 And there was the moment when Sid said, 352 00:20:50,020 --> 00:20:52,860 "Are you bringing ballet to the masses, then?" 353 00:20:52,860 --> 00:20:57,820 Fred just said, "Oh, Mr Ferocious, we're trying our best, dear." 354 00:20:58,980 --> 00:21:02,540 # Do you know, do you know, do you know just how I feel? 355 00:21:03,860 --> 00:21:08,620 # Do you know, do you know, do you know just how I feel? 356 00:21:08,620 --> 00:21:13,660 # Sheer heart attack 357 00:21:15,420 --> 00:21:20,500 # Sheer cardiac... # 358 00:21:23,340 --> 00:21:25,020 How are the rehearsals going, Brian? 359 00:21:25,020 --> 00:21:27,620 Very well up to now, up to the usual standard, I think. 360 00:21:27,620 --> 00:21:31,460 Which is usually slow up to the last minute, and then panic. 361 00:21:31,460 --> 00:21:32,820 But it's going OK. 362 00:21:32,820 --> 00:21:34,900 How much time have you put aside this time? 363 00:21:34,900 --> 00:21:39,660 We have a full week here in Shepperton, where we are now. 364 00:21:39,660 --> 00:21:43,580 Um... Which is without the PA, but we have the monitors, 365 00:21:43,580 --> 00:21:47,460 so our stage environment is more or less as it will be, 366 00:21:47,460 --> 00:21:50,460 and we have a mock-up of how the lights will be... 367 00:21:52,100 --> 00:21:55,100 ..and then the stuff is dismantled and goes to the States, 368 00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:57,060 and we follow it out a week later, 369 00:21:57,060 --> 00:22:00,500 and then we have three or four days with everything, 370 00:22:00,500 --> 00:22:02,900 and with John working the PA and everything. Mm. 371 00:22:02,900 --> 00:22:05,740 How much of News Of The World are you going to do this time? 372 00:22:05,740 --> 00:22:08,140 News Of The World will feature heavily. 373 00:22:08,140 --> 00:22:10,900 Partly because it's easy to do. 374 00:22:10,900 --> 00:22:15,380 Most of the stuff is fairly simple in terms of instrumentation... 375 00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:20,620 ..and it was built around stuff which is easy to do on stage, 376 00:22:20,620 --> 00:22:23,660 which really is the first time we've done that since the first album. 377 00:22:23,660 --> 00:22:24,860 So there'll be a lot of it. 378 00:22:24,860 --> 00:22:27,620 We've already been through five or six numbers off the new album. 379 00:22:47,580 --> 00:22:50,700 It must be interesting finding that exact balance 380 00:22:50,700 --> 00:22:53,580 between new material and old material, too, Brian. 381 00:22:53,580 --> 00:22:54,900 Definitely, yes. 382 00:22:55,980 --> 00:22:59,740 Cos a lot of people come to see a show for the familiar things... 383 00:23:01,100 --> 00:23:04,500 ..and always at the end of any artist's show, generally, 384 00:23:04,500 --> 00:23:06,260 when he starts doing the old stuff, 385 00:23:06,260 --> 00:23:08,540 people respond in a completely different way. 386 00:23:09,780 --> 00:23:11,340 Um... So you have, as you say, 387 00:23:11,340 --> 00:23:13,020 you have to strike the balance 388 00:23:13,020 --> 00:23:15,660 between doing the things which people want to hear 389 00:23:15,660 --> 00:23:18,540 and doing the things which you think you ought to be introducing them to. 390 00:23:18,540 --> 00:23:20,740 Strangely enough, the things that people notice most 391 00:23:20,740 --> 00:23:22,300 are the beginning and the end. 392 00:23:22,300 --> 00:23:25,140 I think it starts getting too much. It's the start they've come to see. 393 00:23:25,140 --> 00:23:27,460 They want to see what we're going to do. 394 00:23:27,460 --> 00:23:28,660 This is a new show. 395 00:23:28,660 --> 00:23:30,860 This is something... What are we going to perform? 396 00:23:30,860 --> 00:23:34,020 I think it worked great as an encore. I think we should do it, 397 00:23:34,020 --> 00:23:37,820 but the whole thing with We Will Rock You is stating that... 398 00:23:37,820 --> 00:23:39,900 Do you see what I mean? Yeah. 399 00:23:39,900 --> 00:23:41,940 There's no point saying, "We will rock you," 400 00:23:41,940 --> 00:23:44,700 after we've rocked them all night long at the end of the show. 401 00:23:44,700 --> 00:23:45,780 Yeah. 402 00:23:45,780 --> 00:23:47,820 MUSIC: We Will Rock You 403 00:23:52,660 --> 00:23:55,380 We love designing these sort of dramatic openings, 404 00:23:55,380 --> 00:23:57,700 and particularly, the beginning and the end of a show, 405 00:23:57,700 --> 00:23:59,780 there's a great opportunity to do something special, 406 00:23:59,780 --> 00:24:02,580 and We Will Rock You, I think, in my head, 407 00:24:02,580 --> 00:24:04,860 was partly conceived as an opener, anyway. 408 00:24:04,860 --> 00:24:06,420 I thought, "Wouldn't that be great 409 00:24:06,420 --> 00:24:08,940 "just to start off with this very stark stamping and clapping? 410 00:24:08,940 --> 00:24:11,020 "It'll be like the audience is starting the show." 411 00:24:11,020 --> 00:24:14,820 # We will, we will rock you 412 00:24:14,820 --> 00:24:19,220 # We will, we will rock you... # 413 00:24:19,220 --> 00:24:22,500 So Freddie would go out and do his thing, all on his own, you know. Hero. 414 00:24:22,500 --> 00:24:24,620 # Buddy, you're a boy, make a big noise 415 00:24:24,620 --> 00:24:27,780 # Playin' in the street, gonna be a big man someday 416 00:24:27,780 --> 00:24:29,460 # Mud on your face 417 00:24:29,460 --> 00:24:30,980 # Big disgrace 418 00:24:30,980 --> 00:24:33,540 # Kickin' your can all over the place 419 00:24:33,540 --> 00:24:37,580 # We will, we will rock you Yes, sir 420 00:24:37,580 --> 00:24:42,700 # We will, we will rock you 421 00:24:43,300 --> 00:24:45,340 # All right 422 00:24:45,340 --> 00:24:50,300 # We will, we will rock you Yes, sir 423 00:24:50,940 --> 00:24:53,820 # We will, we will rock you... # 424 00:24:53,820 --> 00:24:56,540 And I would go out on the other side, do the guitar solo, hero. 425 00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:20,100 But then it's like, "What do we play now?" 426 00:25:20,100 --> 00:25:22,940 You know, when we get to the end of the guitar solo, what happens? 427 00:25:35,100 --> 00:25:36,860 There's this huge kind of anticipation 428 00:25:36,860 --> 00:25:38,180 at the beginning of a show. 429 00:25:38,180 --> 00:25:39,580 You've got to be high energy, 430 00:25:39,580 --> 00:25:42,220 you've got to fulfil that kind of expectation - 431 00:25:42,220 --> 00:25:44,380 and on the record, you go into We Are The Champions, 432 00:25:44,380 --> 00:25:45,580 but that wouldn't be right, 433 00:25:45,580 --> 00:25:48,540 because We Are The Champions really cries out to be the end of a show. 434 00:25:48,540 --> 00:25:50,260 So we thought, "What do we do here?" 435 00:25:50,260 --> 00:25:52,500 And for some reason, I thought, "Well, a fast version 436 00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:54,620 "of We Will Rock You would be really interesting." 437 00:26:04,140 --> 00:26:06,140 # Ooh, yeah... # 438 00:26:09,100 --> 00:26:10,700 And it was very effective. 439 00:26:10,700 --> 00:26:13,100 It was just all very simple, very high energy, 440 00:26:13,100 --> 00:26:16,020 and the audience could kind of bang their heads and get into it 441 00:26:16,020 --> 00:26:18,500 and feel that their energy was being harnessed. 442 00:26:20,420 --> 00:26:23,380 # Buddy, you're a boy, make a big noise 443 00:26:23,380 --> 00:26:25,780 # Playin' in the street, gonna be a big man someday 444 00:26:25,780 --> 00:26:27,380 # Got mud on your face 445 00:26:27,380 --> 00:26:28,780 # Big disgrace 446 00:26:28,780 --> 00:26:31,540 # Kickin' your can all over the place 447 00:26:31,540 --> 00:26:36,060 # We will, we will rock you 448 00:26:36,060 --> 00:26:38,180 # Tonight 449 00:26:38,180 --> 00:26:41,460 # We will, we will rock you 450 00:26:41,460 --> 00:26:43,260 # Buddy, you're a young man, hard man 451 00:26:43,260 --> 00:26:46,660 # Shoutin' in the street, gonna take on the world someday 452 00:26:46,660 --> 00:26:48,020 # Got mud on your face 453 00:26:48,020 --> 00:26:49,540 # Big disgrace 454 00:26:49,540 --> 00:26:53,020 # Wavin' your banner all over the place 455 00:26:53,020 --> 00:26:57,100 # We will, we will rock you 456 00:26:59,100 --> 00:27:03,500 # We will, we will rock 457 00:27:28,060 --> 00:27:29,620 # Oh, yeah 458 00:27:43,260 --> 00:27:47,860 # We will, we will rock you 459 00:27:49,620 --> 00:27:53,340 # We will, we will rock 460 00:27:53,340 --> 00:27:55,420 # Buddy, you're an old man, poor man 461 00:27:55,420 --> 00:27:58,900 # Pleadin' with your eyes, gonna get you some peace someday 462 00:27:58,900 --> 00:28:00,580 # Got mud on your face 463 00:28:00,580 --> 00:28:01,900 # Big disgrace 464 00:28:01,900 --> 00:28:05,140 # Somebody better put you back into your place 465 00:28:05,140 --> 00:28:09,820 # We will, we will rock you 466 00:28:11,300 --> 00:28:15,660 # We will, we will rock you 467 00:28:15,660 --> 00:28:17,460 # Rock you, rock you, rock you 468 00:28:17,460 --> 00:28:20,940 # We will, we will rock... # 469 00:28:42,060 --> 00:28:43,700 AUDIENCE CHEERS 470 00:28:48,660 --> 00:28:49,980 America's great. 471 00:28:49,980 --> 00:28:54,060 You feel like America is the centre of rock music, somehow. 472 00:28:54,060 --> 00:28:57,940 There's a real family which surrounds music in America. 473 00:28:57,940 --> 00:29:00,020 You go there and you feel that you're part of it. 474 00:29:04,940 --> 00:29:07,700 # You say you love me... # 475 00:29:09,220 --> 00:29:12,660 America was regarded as sort of the grail of the rock scene 476 00:29:12,660 --> 00:29:14,540 in those days, and, obviously, 477 00:29:14,540 --> 00:29:17,700 when you sort of smell success in America, you go for it. 478 00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:20,100 America was so geared up for rock and roll, 479 00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:23,300 much more so than any place else at that time. 480 00:29:23,300 --> 00:29:28,260 It had an amazing, thriving community which we plugged into, 481 00:29:28,420 --> 00:29:31,420 and, in a sense, we created our audience, 482 00:29:31,420 --> 00:29:33,860 but in a sense, they created us. 483 00:29:33,860 --> 00:29:36,260 They're a very formative influence on us. 484 00:29:36,260 --> 00:29:37,940 And it was a riot, it was amazing. 485 00:29:37,940 --> 00:29:41,940 The energy that would be in those American halls was outstanding. 486 00:29:41,940 --> 00:29:44,980 I think we grew up on those American tours as a band, 487 00:29:44,980 --> 00:29:48,780 and you start to think of yourself as artists, in a sense. 488 00:29:48,780 --> 00:29:51,540 # It's late 489 00:29:51,540 --> 00:29:54,260 # But I'm bleeding deep inside 490 00:29:54,260 --> 00:29:56,220 # It's late 491 00:29:56,220 --> 00:29:59,780 # Is it just my sickly pride? 492 00:29:59,780 --> 00:30:01,300 # Too late 493 00:30:01,300 --> 00:30:04,860 # Even now the feeling seems to steal away 494 00:30:04,860 --> 00:30:06,340 # So late 495 00:30:06,340 --> 00:30:10,220 # Though I'm crying I can't help but hear you say 496 00:30:10,220 --> 00:30:14,100 # It's late, it's late, it's late 497 00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:17,020 # But not too late 498 00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:25,700 # Mm, yeah 499 00:30:25,700 --> 00:30:28,780 # The way you love me 500 00:30:30,220 --> 00:30:32,900 # Is the sweetest love around 501 00:30:36,300 --> 00:30:39,500 # But after all this time 502 00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:42,380 # The more I'm trying 503 00:30:42,380 --> 00:30:45,260 # The more I seem to let you down... # 504 00:30:46,460 --> 00:30:48,660 Are you going to make sure that the whole... 505 00:30:48,660 --> 00:30:51,780 ..all the lights... all these gaps are filled? 506 00:30:51,780 --> 00:30:52,940 Oh, yeah. 507 00:30:52,940 --> 00:30:56,500 You must aim for maximum effect, both aurally and visually. 508 00:30:56,500 --> 00:31:00,100 We're just trying to put out the music and the visual aspect 509 00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:02,660 as effectively as we can to as many people as we can. 510 00:31:04,900 --> 00:31:07,340 We think it should be a real event every time we play. 511 00:31:07,340 --> 00:31:09,900 People are paying money to come and see you... 512 00:31:09,900 --> 00:31:11,980 As far as we're concerned, we're putting on a show. 513 00:31:11,980 --> 00:31:13,820 It's not just another rendition of an album. 514 00:31:13,820 --> 00:31:16,020 If that was the case, we might as well just have 515 00:31:16,020 --> 00:31:18,300 sort of cardboard cut-outs and just play the album. 516 00:31:18,300 --> 00:31:19,620 # It's late 517 00:31:21,020 --> 00:31:23,500 # But it's driving me so mad 518 00:31:23,500 --> 00:31:24,780 # It's late 519 00:31:24,780 --> 00:31:28,660 # Yes, I know but don't try to tell me that... 520 00:31:28,660 --> 00:31:30,060 # It's too late 521 00:31:30,060 --> 00:31:33,780 # Save our love, you can't turn out the lights 522 00:31:33,780 --> 00:31:35,140 # So late 523 00:31:35,140 --> 00:31:39,140 # I've been wrong but I'll learn to be right 524 00:31:39,140 --> 00:31:44,180 # It's late, it's late, it's late, it's late, it's late 525 00:31:45,900 --> 00:31:50,980 # It's late, it's late 526 00:31:52,860 --> 00:31:55,740 # It's all too late 527 00:32:00,660 --> 00:32:02,860 # Oh, let's do it 528 00:32:02,860 --> 00:32:04,420 # Right on! 529 00:32:06,140 --> 00:32:10,060 # Mm, late, oh, late 530 00:32:10,060 --> 00:32:11,620 # Oh, yeah 531 00:32:13,340 --> 00:32:17,740 # Whoo! # 532 00:32:27,780 --> 00:32:30,700 I had to tell everyone to go home, cos he stayed standing there. 533 00:32:30,700 --> 00:32:32,860 I know! I didn't realise he was playing! 534 00:32:33,900 --> 00:32:35,980 Oh, blood, blood, sue the management! 535 00:32:35,980 --> 00:32:37,900 We are! I bled, as well. 536 00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:38,900 Shit! 537 00:32:39,940 --> 00:32:42,180 I haven't got that blood. 538 00:32:42,180 --> 00:32:43,700 Peter, sue the management! 539 00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:50,740 Get off my trousers. 540 00:32:50,740 --> 00:32:52,140 Fucking get out! 541 00:32:53,860 --> 00:32:56,220 We did stay pretty connected. 542 00:32:56,220 --> 00:32:57,980 Generally, we sort of found a big place 543 00:32:57,980 --> 00:32:59,660 where we could get ready together, 544 00:32:59,660 --> 00:33:03,100 and we would kind of joke around and talk about stuff. 545 00:33:03,100 --> 00:33:06,820 So we had a good kind of camaraderie, which kept us alive. 546 00:33:06,820 --> 00:33:09,500 Arnold! Sorry... Oh, my God... 547 00:33:12,660 --> 00:33:15,140 Oh, shit, I threw my whistle away, actually. 548 00:33:15,140 --> 00:33:16,500 HE PLAYS WHISTLE 549 00:33:19,540 --> 00:33:21,900 I bet you can't blow 'em like that. 550 00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:24,420 I hesitated, actually, I did, and I thought - I threw it. 551 00:33:24,420 --> 00:33:26,580 I thought, "I've thrown it, should I ask for it back?" 552 00:33:26,580 --> 00:33:28,300 I want it back. 553 00:33:28,300 --> 00:33:32,020 You threw my best fucking pair of maracas away the first day. 554 00:33:32,020 --> 00:33:33,420 Great-sounding maracas! 555 00:33:33,420 --> 00:33:35,700 I mean, it took me hours to steal them. 556 00:33:36,820 --> 00:33:38,820 Now they know I'm going to throw those things... 557 00:33:38,820 --> 00:33:39,860 He just goes... 558 00:33:40,940 --> 00:33:43,380 Actually, they were wonderful, I must say, I'm sorry. 559 00:33:43,380 --> 00:33:45,660 Now they know I'm going to throw them in the audience, 560 00:33:45,660 --> 00:33:47,380 they give me these horrible things 561 00:33:47,380 --> 00:33:49,420 with about two peas inside, you know? 562 00:33:49,420 --> 00:33:51,380 They just rattle, rattle, rattle. 563 00:33:51,380 --> 00:33:52,740 I feel such a berk, going... 564 00:33:52,740 --> 00:33:54,820 Nothing happening. So I just throw it away. 565 00:33:54,820 --> 00:33:56,060 Lovely colours, as well. 566 00:33:56,060 --> 00:33:58,140 Lovely colours, lovely kitsch colours. 567 00:33:58,140 --> 00:33:59,660 Real height of bad taste. 568 00:33:59,660 --> 00:34:01,580 Really? 569 00:34:01,580 --> 00:34:03,940 You could throw me in the audience! 570 00:34:03,940 --> 00:34:06,180 Don't give him ideas. 571 00:34:06,180 --> 00:34:08,500 You don't rattle as good. 572 00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:11,540 Are you happy with the response on the tour so far? 573 00:34:11,540 --> 00:34:13,700 Very much so, I think. Yes. 574 00:34:13,700 --> 00:34:15,860 See, I think it's worth pointing out, really, 575 00:34:15,860 --> 00:34:18,260 that it's the most successful tour on the road right now. 576 00:34:18,260 --> 00:34:20,380 Isn't it? If you say so, it is. 577 00:34:21,460 --> 00:34:23,060 It is. 578 00:34:23,060 --> 00:34:27,100 We wouldn't want to keep abreast of it, but, yes. Yes, it is. 579 00:34:27,100 --> 00:34:30,460 There's a lot of competition around. I mean, there is... 580 00:34:30,460 --> 00:34:33,940 How many groups on the road? Well, I don't know. 581 00:34:33,940 --> 00:34:37,540 Of the sort of halls we're playing, no more than half a dozen. 582 00:34:37,540 --> 00:34:40,260 But people here are just geared to going to... 583 00:34:40,260 --> 00:34:42,300 ..to actually seeing so many rock concerts 584 00:34:42,300 --> 00:34:45,380 that, I mean, it's kind of a way of life, really, isn't it? 585 00:34:45,380 --> 00:34:47,660 Particularly what strikes me on this tour 586 00:34:47,660 --> 00:34:51,380 is how well put together the stage is, how well designed it is, 587 00:34:51,380 --> 00:34:53,620 and how well the stage show works. 588 00:34:53,620 --> 00:34:56,900 Can you describe the opening and how you got the idea for it, Freddie? 589 00:34:58,300 --> 00:35:00,100 How did I get the idea for it? What do you mean, 590 00:35:00,100 --> 00:35:01,980 how HE got the idea for it?! 591 00:35:01,980 --> 00:35:05,180 I don't know, usually, I just kind of... 592 00:35:05,180 --> 00:35:07,900 How did it start? Somebody comes up with an idea 593 00:35:07,900 --> 00:35:09,940 and it's immediately rejected - 594 00:35:09,940 --> 00:35:11,940 but it kind of sort of seeps in after a while, 595 00:35:11,940 --> 00:35:14,740 once it's kind of thrown about. They want to get a row on film, you see. 596 00:35:14,740 --> 00:35:17,260 Oh, they want to get a row - you should've been there yest... 597 00:35:17,260 --> 00:35:19,860 Well, you were there yesterday, but the cameras weren't rolling. 598 00:35:19,860 --> 00:35:21,460 I'm playing what I always play. 599 00:35:22,660 --> 00:35:25,100 I'm playing exactly what is on the record, Fred. 600 00:35:25,100 --> 00:35:27,940 Did you slow down? Oh, fuck slowing down. 601 00:35:27,940 --> 00:35:30,180 Did he slow down? That's hardly the point. 602 00:35:30,180 --> 00:35:33,500 Give us a bit more tea, and we might try and join in with you. 603 00:35:33,500 --> 00:35:36,820 Well, you're expecting all of us to be perfect 604 00:35:36,820 --> 00:35:38,660 before you even attempt to do anything. 605 00:35:38,660 --> 00:35:40,340 Oh, don't be so fucking ridiculous. 606 00:35:43,780 --> 00:35:45,380 Don't take it down. 607 00:35:45,380 --> 00:35:48,060 That's all right. 608 00:35:48,060 --> 00:35:49,660 It's not coming out on mine. 609 00:35:49,660 --> 00:35:51,060 I want to hear it. 610 00:35:51,060 --> 00:35:52,860 I hear we split up last week, 611 00:35:52,860 --> 00:35:54,540 according to the NME or something. 612 00:35:54,540 --> 00:35:56,900 Actually, we must develop that. 613 00:35:56,900 --> 00:35:59,420 Just to a point. 614 00:35:59,420 --> 00:36:01,740 How did that develop, those rumours? 615 00:36:01,740 --> 00:36:02,940 Oh, it's... 616 00:36:04,060 --> 00:36:05,540 It's so... 617 00:36:07,180 --> 00:36:09,380 A lot of trivia, it's not even worth talking about. 618 00:36:09,380 --> 00:36:12,100 Was there any basis in fact for that speculation at all? 619 00:36:12,100 --> 00:36:13,540 Not as far as I know, really. 620 00:36:13,540 --> 00:36:15,260 Breaking up, when we're doing so well? 621 00:36:15,260 --> 00:36:16,740 Yeah. You must be kidding. 622 00:36:16,740 --> 00:36:21,540 I think the most important thing is, for a band - basically, it has to be good, 623 00:36:21,540 --> 00:36:24,820 and it also has to stick together, I think, 624 00:36:24,820 --> 00:36:26,540 and know each other backwards. 625 00:36:26,540 --> 00:36:30,020 You know, you've almost got to know what the other person is thinking. 626 00:36:30,020 --> 00:36:31,380 A band has to stick together 627 00:36:31,380 --> 00:36:34,060 until there's no longer any point in them sticking together, 628 00:36:34,060 --> 00:36:35,140 if you see what I mean. 629 00:36:35,140 --> 00:36:36,580 But mind you, when it is all over 630 00:36:36,580 --> 00:36:38,860 and there's not really much coming out of it any more, 631 00:36:38,860 --> 00:36:40,780 you've got to quit then, I think. 632 00:36:40,780 --> 00:36:42,940 I'm sure we will when that happens. 633 00:36:42,940 --> 00:36:45,860 Should we do something out front? 634 00:36:45,860 --> 00:36:48,660 See if the fucking monitor's working. 635 00:36:48,660 --> 00:36:53,700 We did, in a sense, become a little less cohesive, I suppose. 636 00:36:53,980 --> 00:36:57,620 But I think the great thing for us was that we always did soundchecks. 637 00:36:57,620 --> 00:36:59,900 We did long soundchecks every day - 638 00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:02,620 and so much happened in the soundchecks. 639 00:37:02,620 --> 00:37:06,700 We would talk to each other, look at each other, discuss things. 640 00:37:06,700 --> 00:37:08,620 We'd figure out what was good about last night, 641 00:37:08,620 --> 00:37:10,300 what wasn't good about last night, 642 00:37:10,300 --> 00:37:11,660 and you know, "Let's try this. 643 00:37:11,660 --> 00:37:13,580 "Let's see if we can get this song together," 644 00:37:13,580 --> 00:37:15,620 and try out things, and have a bit of fun. 645 00:37:17,300 --> 00:37:19,380 It's a kind of dedication, really, 646 00:37:19,380 --> 00:37:20,860 but, boy, it pays off! 647 00:37:20,860 --> 00:37:24,580 So I think that saved us from getting fragmented and disconnected. 648 00:37:24,580 --> 00:37:26,140 # Get your party gown 649 00:37:26,140 --> 00:37:28,060 # Get your pigtail down 650 00:37:28,060 --> 00:37:31,220 # Get your heart beatin', baby 651 00:37:31,220 --> 00:37:33,220 # Get your timin' right 652 00:37:33,220 --> 00:37:35,300 # Get your act all tight 653 00:37:35,300 --> 00:37:38,340 # It's gotta be tonight, my little schoolbabe 654 00:37:38,340 --> 00:37:39,980 # Momma says you don't 655 00:37:39,980 --> 00:37:41,660 # Daddy says you won't 656 00:37:41,660 --> 00:37:43,460 # And I'm boilin' up inside 657 00:37:43,460 --> 00:37:46,100 # No way I'm gonna lose out this time 658 00:37:51,860 --> 00:37:55,620 # Tie your mother down 659 00:37:55,620 --> 00:37:56,820 # Lock your daddy out of doors 660 00:37:56,820 --> 00:37:58,820 # I don't need him nosing around 661 00:37:58,820 --> 00:38:00,500 # Tie your mother down 662 00:38:00,500 --> 00:38:02,140 # Tie your mother down... # 663 00:38:12,700 --> 00:38:14,620 Just try and give me a touch more vocal. 664 00:38:19,460 --> 00:38:23,060 One, two. One, two, one, two. 665 00:38:23,060 --> 00:38:25,900 # Sammy was low 666 00:38:25,900 --> 00:38:28,380 # Just watching the show 667 00:38:28,380 --> 00:38:31,900 # Over and over again... # 668 00:38:33,180 --> 00:38:36,260 One, two, one, two. 669 00:38:36,260 --> 00:38:38,460 # Sammy was low 670 00:38:38,460 --> 00:38:40,620 # Just watching the show 671 00:38:41,940 --> 00:38:46,460 # Over and over again 672 00:38:46,460 --> 00:38:49,700 # Knew it was time 673 00:38:49,700 --> 00:38:52,300 # He'd made up his mind 674 00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:56,220 # To leave his dead life behind 675 00:38:58,100 --> 00:39:00,140 # His boss said to him 676 00:39:00,140 --> 00:39:03,340 # Boy, you'd better begin 677 00:39:03,340 --> 00:39:08,380 # To get those crazy notions right out of your head 678 00:39:09,140 --> 00:39:14,220 # Sammy, who do you think that you are? 679 00:39:14,620 --> 00:39:19,700 # You should've been sweeping up the Emerald Bar 680 00:39:22,980 --> 00:39:28,060 # Spread your wings and fly away 681 00:39:28,660 --> 00:39:33,300 # Fly away, far away 682 00:39:33,300 --> 00:39:36,420 # Spread your little wings and fly away... # 683 00:39:36,420 --> 00:39:38,820 If, individually, you went off - 684 00:39:38,820 --> 00:39:41,420 I'm not talking about the band break-up at all. Mm. 685 00:39:41,420 --> 00:39:43,260 Oh, no! If you made individual solo albums... 686 00:39:43,260 --> 00:39:44,700 Yeah. Oh, I'd make a lot of money! 687 00:39:44,700 --> 00:39:46,300 ..and I'll ask you individually this - 688 00:39:46,300 --> 00:39:47,820 what sort of album would you make? 689 00:39:47,820 --> 00:39:49,140 Rog? No idea. 690 00:39:50,820 --> 00:39:53,540 I don't know yet. Haven't done it yet. 691 00:39:53,540 --> 00:39:55,260 Er, a good one. 692 00:39:55,260 --> 00:39:59,500 I'd like to make it naked and raw. 693 00:39:59,500 --> 00:40:01,780 Fred? I really haven't thought in those terms, really. 694 00:40:01,780 --> 00:40:05,860 I mean, probably my solo album would consist of me singing with Roger, 695 00:40:05,860 --> 00:40:08,060 Brian and John backing me! 696 00:40:08,060 --> 00:40:10,860 Most of the things that I want to do, I would want to use the group, 697 00:40:10,860 --> 00:40:13,580 cos that's partly - we sort of use each other, in a way, 698 00:40:13,580 --> 00:40:17,940 if we have ideas, and that is the big thing about a group, 699 00:40:17,940 --> 00:40:19,340 that you have a group of people 700 00:40:19,340 --> 00:40:21,420 who understand each other's ways of working 701 00:40:21,420 --> 00:40:23,460 and you can get the maximum out of each other. 702 00:40:23,460 --> 00:40:26,540 So there are things which, perhaps, at a particular time 703 00:40:26,540 --> 00:40:29,500 you don't want to do for the group, but mainly the group is the vehicle. 704 00:40:29,500 --> 00:40:31,180 That's what I'm trying to say. Yeah. 705 00:40:31,180 --> 00:40:33,060 And it's the best vehicle that we have. 706 00:40:33,060 --> 00:40:35,740 John? Um, I'd never do one, no. 707 00:40:35,740 --> 00:40:36,940 I can't sing! 708 00:40:40,340 --> 00:40:41,740 So how do each of you, then, 709 00:40:41,740 --> 00:40:43,860 musically pull the band in certain directions? 710 00:40:43,860 --> 00:40:45,820 I mean, I'm thinking of your songs, for example, 711 00:40:45,820 --> 00:40:47,660 which always strike me as being so melodic... 712 00:40:47,660 --> 00:40:49,500 Yes. ..John, and add that input into the...? 713 00:40:49,500 --> 00:40:53,220 Yes, yeah. Well, that just obviously comes from the type of songs 714 00:40:53,220 --> 00:40:54,620 that the individuals write, 715 00:40:54,620 --> 00:40:57,220 you know, I mean, because we are four... 716 00:40:57,220 --> 00:40:59,260 ..you know, four individuals, really. 717 00:40:59,260 --> 00:41:03,020 I mean, we are quite different in our musical taste, as well. 718 00:41:03,020 --> 00:41:06,380 Mine tend to be slightly lighter. 719 00:41:06,380 --> 00:41:08,780 I don't think I could ever write a heavy song, you know? 720 00:41:08,780 --> 00:41:11,100 It's, you know, it's not in me. Mm. 721 00:41:11,100 --> 00:41:13,060 # Come on, honey 722 00:41:13,060 --> 00:41:15,580 # Come fly with me... # 723 00:41:24,620 --> 00:41:26,860 Oh, it's got an awful ridge on it. 724 00:41:26,860 --> 00:41:28,700 Is there another one? 725 00:41:30,140 --> 00:41:31,420 Ow, ow, ow. 726 00:41:33,380 --> 00:41:35,300 I've lost my shoe! 727 00:41:35,300 --> 00:41:36,420 Cinderella. 728 00:41:36,420 --> 00:41:38,540 I like to think that I can do different things. 729 00:41:38,540 --> 00:41:40,860 I mean, I don't like to just think, "OK, rock and roll, 730 00:41:40,860 --> 00:41:42,540 "so therefore I'm going to go up there, 731 00:41:42,540 --> 00:41:44,460 "put on my high-heeled shoes and play the songs." 732 00:41:44,460 --> 00:41:47,460 I like to think that we do so many different types of songs 733 00:41:47,460 --> 00:41:49,420 that then when we try and put them over 734 00:41:49,420 --> 00:41:51,220 they require a different format. 735 00:41:51,220 --> 00:41:54,900 And within that is a wide area. 736 00:41:54,900 --> 00:41:57,780 Why don't you do a nice picture of Roger's legs? 737 00:41:57,780 --> 00:41:59,100 Away! 738 00:42:02,620 --> 00:42:04,180 Oh, but I don't do my own! 739 00:42:06,060 --> 00:42:07,780 Dave! 740 00:42:07,780 --> 00:42:09,700 Do, do, do. 741 00:42:09,700 --> 00:42:12,780 I feel a lot of people now realise when they come to see our show 742 00:42:12,780 --> 00:42:15,460 that they're going to get a lot of contrasts. 743 00:42:15,460 --> 00:42:17,820 We're not scared of trying out different ideas, you know? 744 00:42:17,820 --> 00:42:20,900 I think one of the things we really steer clear of 745 00:42:20,900 --> 00:42:23,420 is trying to sort of repeat the same formula. 746 00:42:24,700 --> 00:42:26,660 That's not the thing done in rock and roll! 747 00:42:26,660 --> 00:42:28,500 Can you imagine it? 748 00:42:29,620 --> 00:42:31,100 As the albums have progressed, 749 00:42:31,100 --> 00:42:33,140 I mean, our sort of songwriting has progressed. 750 00:42:33,140 --> 00:42:35,780 We've sort of ventured into different areas. 751 00:42:35,780 --> 00:42:37,460 When people hear them on the records, 752 00:42:37,460 --> 00:42:38,780 we like to do them on stage. 753 00:42:38,780 --> 00:42:41,060 We'd like to try out something very different right now. 754 00:42:41,060 --> 00:42:45,100 This is from the new album, the News Of The World. 755 00:42:45,100 --> 00:42:46,980 Have you got it yet? The album, that is. 756 00:42:46,980 --> 00:42:49,100 AUDIENCE CHEERS 757 00:42:49,100 --> 00:42:51,380 OK, you might just about recognise this one. 758 00:42:51,380 --> 00:42:54,220 This is called My Melancholy Blues. 759 00:43:03,940 --> 00:43:07,100 # Another party's over 760 00:43:07,100 --> 00:43:10,220 # And I'm left cold sober 761 00:43:10,220 --> 00:43:15,260 # My baby left me for somebody new 762 00:43:18,180 --> 00:43:22,460 # I don't wanna talk about it 763 00:43:22,460 --> 00:43:26,060 # Want to forget about it 764 00:43:26,060 --> 00:43:31,060 # Wanna be intoxicated with that special brew 765 00:43:35,260 --> 00:43:37,820 # So come me... # Bluh-bluh-bluh! 766 00:43:39,500 --> 00:43:43,020 # Let me 767 00:43:56,060 --> 00:44:00,300 # Oh, don't expect me 768 00:44:01,340 --> 00:44:04,860 # To behave perfectly 769 00:44:04,860 --> 00:44:08,540 # And wear that sunny smile 770 00:44:08,540 --> 00:44:13,540 # My guess is I'm in for a cloudy and overcast 771 00:44:15,820 --> 00:44:18,900 # Don't try and stop me 772 00:44:18,900 --> 00:44:23,940 # Cos I'm heading for that stormy weather soon 773 00:44:27,340 --> 00:44:30,980 # I'm causing a mild sensation 774 00:44:30,980 --> 00:44:34,420 # With this new occupation 775 00:44:34,420 --> 00:44:36,820 # I'm permanently glued 776 00:44:36,820 --> 00:44:41,820 # To this extraordinary mood so now move over 777 00:44:42,500 --> 00:44:47,340 # And let me take over 778 00:44:47,340 --> 00:44:52,420 # With my melancholy blues 779 00:45:22,980 --> 00:45:26,180 # I'm causing a mild sensation 780 00:45:26,180 --> 00:45:30,220 # With this new occupation 781 00:45:30,220 --> 00:45:32,300 # I'm in the news 782 00:45:32,300 --> 00:45:37,300 # I'm just getting used to my new exposure 783 00:45:41,060 --> 00:45:46,100 # So, come into my enclosure 784 00:45:46,540 --> 00:45:51,620 # And meet my melancholy blues. # 785 00:46:19,780 --> 00:46:20,780 AUDIENCE CHEERS 786 00:46:25,260 --> 00:46:27,820 We are halfway through the tour with Queen now, 787 00:46:27,820 --> 00:46:28,940 and it's proving to be, 788 00:46:28,940 --> 00:46:32,380 relative to everything else that's on the road this autumn, 789 00:46:32,380 --> 00:46:34,220 a very, very successful tour. 790 00:46:34,220 --> 00:46:36,900 We've just come back from a gig at the Atlanta Stadium... 791 00:46:38,260 --> 00:46:39,900 ..and we're just going up... 792 00:46:39,900 --> 00:46:43,260 I've already got one. ..to the bar to get another drink. 793 00:46:47,420 --> 00:46:50,420 On the table, and kick it! I don't want to... 794 00:46:50,420 --> 00:46:52,820 On the table, and kick it! What? Oh, right. 795 00:46:57,300 --> 00:46:59,860 The Midwest could get on your nerves, 796 00:46:59,860 --> 00:47:02,180 because of the sheer repetition of it, 797 00:47:02,180 --> 00:47:04,860 and every town looks so much like the other - 798 00:47:04,860 --> 00:47:08,100 and you did feel like you were in a culture vacuum sometimes. 799 00:47:08,100 --> 00:47:09,140 Sorry. 800 00:47:10,420 --> 00:47:15,420 All we have is bad televisions, vibrating beds, even worse, 801 00:47:15,860 --> 00:47:19,620 and bad food - but it was still a lot of fun. 802 00:47:19,620 --> 00:47:20,740 HE CHUCKLES 803 00:47:22,060 --> 00:47:24,140 There was loads of sex and drugs! 804 00:47:24,140 --> 00:47:27,100 No, there really wasn't much sex and... 805 00:47:27,100 --> 00:47:28,700 Well, there wasn't much drugs. 806 00:47:48,300 --> 00:47:57,340 # Get down Make love 807 00:47:58,540 --> 00:48:01,340 # Get down Make love 808 00:48:02,860 --> 00:48:06,460 # You take my body 809 00:48:06,460 --> 00:48:09,460 # I give you heat 810 00:48:09,460 --> 00:48:13,140 # You say you're hungry 811 00:48:13,140 --> 00:48:16,540 # I give you meat 812 00:48:16,540 --> 00:48:19,220 # You suck my mind 813 00:48:20,460 --> 00:48:22,740 # I blow your head 814 00:48:24,540 --> 00:48:26,540 # Make love 815 00:48:26,540 --> 00:48:28,780 # Inside your bed 816 00:48:28,780 --> 00:48:32,700 # Everybody get down, make love 817 00:48:32,700 --> 00:48:36,420 # Get down, make love 818 00:48:36,420 --> 00:48:42,260 # Get down Make love 819 00:48:43,380 --> 00:48:45,260 # Every time I get high 820 00:48:45,260 --> 00:48:47,020 # You wanna come down 821 00:48:47,020 --> 00:48:48,540 # Every time I get hot 822 00:48:48,540 --> 00:48:49,940 # You say you wanna cool down 823 00:48:49,940 --> 00:48:51,580 # You say it's enough 824 00:48:51,580 --> 00:48:53,060 # In fact it's too much 825 00:48:53,060 --> 00:48:57,820 # Every time I wanna get down, get down, get down. # 826 00:48:57,820 --> 00:48:59,700 Your eye. 827 00:48:59,700 --> 00:49:01,940 Dry your eye. Get your eyepiece. 828 00:49:03,500 --> 00:49:05,500 Horrible use of space. 829 00:49:05,500 --> 00:49:06,940 You are going to start taking. 830 00:49:06,940 --> 00:49:08,380 I got a photograph of him tonight. 831 00:49:08,380 --> 00:49:10,540 Really? Smiling? 832 00:49:10,540 --> 00:49:12,660 How did you get that? 833 00:49:12,660 --> 00:49:15,300 He even managed to get on the video. 834 00:49:15,300 --> 00:49:18,060 Me? I fucking tripped... 835 00:49:19,140 --> 00:49:22,140 I came hurtling on in Now I'm Here, 836 00:49:22,140 --> 00:49:25,260 in the darkness, went arse over tit. 837 00:49:25,260 --> 00:49:27,540 Did you see that? That's why I came sort of... 838 00:49:27,540 --> 00:49:30,100 I kind of slipped and I went hurtling on and did all this. 839 00:49:31,820 --> 00:49:33,620 It really puts you off, for real. 840 00:49:38,540 --> 00:49:40,660 I thought it seemed to get together tonight. 841 00:49:40,660 --> 00:49:42,220 I enjoyed tonight. 842 00:49:42,220 --> 00:49:43,300 We're not together. 843 00:49:43,300 --> 00:49:48,340 Brian broke a string in, well, the most awkward spot, 844 00:49:48,380 --> 00:49:51,700 in the middle of Liar, where there's a crescendo, and it comes to a lull, 845 00:49:51,700 --> 00:49:53,940 and then he has to give it a cue, so we're all waiting, 846 00:49:53,940 --> 00:49:55,020 and he broke a string! 847 00:49:57,580 --> 00:50:00,340 So he's changing. I'm standing in this spotlight, I mean... 848 00:50:00,340 --> 00:50:01,580 Fuck! 849 00:50:06,780 --> 00:50:09,020 Anyway, we've been in worse things. 850 00:50:09,020 --> 00:50:10,860 How were the audience? 851 00:50:10,860 --> 00:50:13,740 They were good, yeah. It's been different this time. 852 00:50:13,740 --> 00:50:17,660 I don't know. Last time, the places were smaller, much smaller, 853 00:50:17,660 --> 00:50:19,700 but they were more...up. 854 00:50:19,700 --> 00:50:22,500 This time, I suppose, they brought their mums and dads. 855 00:50:26,100 --> 00:50:29,140 # I was nothing but a city boy 856 00:50:29,140 --> 00:50:32,140 # My trumpet was my only toy 857 00:50:33,260 --> 00:50:35,380 # I've been blowing my horn 858 00:50:35,380 --> 00:50:37,140 # Since I knew I was born 859 00:50:37,140 --> 00:50:40,380 # But there isn't nobody wants to know 860 00:50:40,380 --> 00:50:44,220 # I've been sleeping on the sidewalk 861 00:50:44,220 --> 00:50:46,900 # Rollin' down the road 862 00:50:47,900 --> 00:50:49,940 # I may get hungry 863 00:50:49,940 --> 00:50:52,580 # But I sure don't wanna go home. # 864 00:50:55,420 --> 00:50:57,580 What's happening when we get back to London, 865 00:50:57,580 --> 00:51:00,620 going to be presumably looking at your whole business situation 866 00:51:00,620 --> 00:51:01,860 and reviewing it. 867 00:51:01,860 --> 00:51:04,420 Let's face it, we're going to sort of try and sort out 868 00:51:04,420 --> 00:51:06,620 a lot of business... so-called business problems, 869 00:51:06,620 --> 00:51:10,220 and, I think, the Queen... the so-called Queen Empire, 870 00:51:10,220 --> 00:51:13,980 it's pretty large now, we've all got subsidiary companies and things, 871 00:51:13,980 --> 00:51:17,100 and it needs a lot of handling! 872 00:51:18,420 --> 00:51:19,780 # I may get hungry 873 00:51:19,780 --> 00:51:22,380 # But I sure don't wanna go home. # 874 00:51:25,300 --> 00:51:27,100 We didn't get a penny of record royalties 875 00:51:27,100 --> 00:51:28,340 from the first three albums 876 00:51:28,340 --> 00:51:30,380 so, basically, we got out of that one, right, 877 00:51:30,380 --> 00:51:33,180 by re-signing with a guy called John Reid. 878 00:51:33,180 --> 00:51:35,260 We signed with him for three years, right, 879 00:51:35,260 --> 00:51:38,060 which finishes in about September next year. 880 00:51:38,060 --> 00:51:39,860 What we are looking, at that point in time, 881 00:51:39,860 --> 00:51:41,780 is basically to just look after ourselves 882 00:51:41,780 --> 00:51:43,700 and, you know, do it completely on our own. 883 00:51:43,700 --> 00:51:46,220 TAYLOR: It's the long road to artistic and financial freedom, 884 00:51:46,220 --> 00:51:49,460 you know, which is so hard to find if you're successful to any degree, 885 00:51:49,460 --> 00:51:51,540 cos there's a million sharks out there. 886 00:51:56,620 --> 00:51:59,220 You've achieved so much, now, over the last five or six years, 887 00:51:59,220 --> 00:52:03,580 and I was wondering now what targets you have left to achieve, really. 888 00:52:03,580 --> 00:52:07,340 Number one album in America would be nice. 889 00:52:07,340 --> 00:52:10,740 Yeah, we've never had a number one over here. 890 00:52:10,740 --> 00:52:13,780 We've had very successful sort of two-million-selling albums, 891 00:52:13,780 --> 00:52:15,460 but we haven't had a number one album. 892 00:52:15,460 --> 00:52:19,340 I don't know. And also, we could be a bigger draw than we are, you know? 893 00:52:19,340 --> 00:52:21,820 Yes, I mean, we haven't... 894 00:52:21,820 --> 00:52:25,420 The wrong thing to do is to actually sort of see ourselves... 895 00:52:25,420 --> 00:52:27,420 ..with a particular goal to meet, you know? 896 00:52:27,420 --> 00:52:29,180 I mean, to say, "This is where I want to go." 897 00:52:29,180 --> 00:52:32,860 It's got to be so wide that... 898 00:52:32,860 --> 00:52:34,540 I mean, you just keep going. 899 00:52:34,540 --> 00:52:37,900 I mean, it's endless, really. 900 00:52:37,900 --> 00:52:39,580 You're going to take some time off 901 00:52:39,580 --> 00:52:42,180 when you get back to London, aren't you? That's the plan, yeah. 902 00:52:42,180 --> 00:52:44,100 You have to get refreshed every now and again, 903 00:52:44,100 --> 00:52:46,660 and we haven't really had a holiday for the last four years or so. 904 00:52:46,660 --> 00:52:48,780 We've always said, "This is time off," 905 00:52:48,780 --> 00:52:51,220 but then it isn't, because you get involved in projects. 906 00:52:51,220 --> 00:52:54,380 Certainly, for me, I'm going to get as far away as I can. 907 00:52:54,380 --> 00:52:56,540 I think we really deserve it. 908 00:52:56,540 --> 00:52:58,100 I think... 909 00:52:58,100 --> 00:52:59,540 Oh, we bloody well do! 910 00:52:59,540 --> 00:53:03,820 I think we've been kind of sort of putting it off and putting it off 911 00:53:03,820 --> 00:53:05,820 for the last six years, really, 912 00:53:05,820 --> 00:53:09,660 and I think the time has come where we can kind of ease off a bit 913 00:53:09,660 --> 00:53:10,900 and just... 914 00:53:12,100 --> 00:53:15,420 I mean, on this tour, I've been surviving on just jabs. 915 00:53:15,420 --> 00:53:18,420 I mean... I don't mean that, in that sense! 916 00:53:18,420 --> 00:53:19,900 Oh, please, mother! 917 00:53:19,900 --> 00:53:20,940 No! 918 00:53:21,900 --> 00:53:24,220 But, um...the show goes on. 919 00:53:28,860 --> 00:53:30,780 MUSIC: We Will Rock You 920 00:53:37,860 --> 00:53:41,540 # We will, we will rock you 921 00:53:41,540 --> 00:53:42,860 # All right! 922 00:53:42,860 --> 00:53:46,860 # We will, we will rock you 923 00:53:46,860 --> 00:53:48,460 # OK! 924 00:53:48,460 --> 00:53:52,380 # We will, we will rock you 925 00:53:54,220 --> 00:53:58,580 # We will, we will rock you... # 926 00:54:07,380 --> 00:54:09,420 As filming came to an end, 927 00:54:09,420 --> 00:54:13,780 News Of The World reached number three in the US Billboard charts, 928 00:54:13,780 --> 00:54:16,740 their most successful album in America to date. 929 00:54:17,940 --> 00:54:21,780 The double A-side We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions 930 00:54:21,780 --> 00:54:26,500 reached number four, just missing out on the top spot they craved. 931 00:54:33,540 --> 00:54:36,300 # I've paid my dues 932 00:54:36,300 --> 00:54:40,060 # Time after time 933 00:54:40,060 --> 00:54:42,340 # I've done my sentence... # 934 00:54:42,340 --> 00:54:45,540 It was to be another two years before their singles 935 00:54:45,540 --> 00:54:49,460 Crazy Little Thing Called Love and Another One Bites The Dust 936 00:54:49,460 --> 00:54:53,300 finally got them their American number one - 937 00:54:53,300 --> 00:54:57,340 but the huge appeal of We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions 938 00:54:57,340 --> 00:55:00,940 was to be pivotal in cementing Queen's relationship 939 00:55:00,940 --> 00:55:02,980 with the American audience - 940 00:55:02,980 --> 00:55:06,300 a relationship that endures to this day. 941 00:55:06,300 --> 00:55:11,420 # We are the champions, my friends 942 00:55:13,980 --> 00:55:18,940 # And we'll keep on fighting till the end 943 00:55:22,020 --> 00:55:29,740 # We are the champions 944 00:55:29,740 --> 00:55:33,900 # No time for losers 945 00:55:33,900 --> 00:55:38,940 # Cos we are the champions of the world... # 946 00:55:45,180 --> 00:55:47,820 I'm feeling very thankful and grateful and blessed 947 00:55:47,820 --> 00:55:49,580 just to be among you folks again, 948 00:55:49,580 --> 00:55:52,300 cos it's something you can't take for granted. 949 00:55:52,300 --> 00:55:55,660 This is an amazing moment for me, to be back here. 950 00:55:55,660 --> 00:55:57,020 Thank you. AUDIENCE CHEERS 951 00:55:58,580 --> 00:56:02,460 It seems quite incredible that old Roger and me are back here, 952 00:56:02,460 --> 00:56:06,340 and it's even more incredible that you guys are here to see us! 953 00:56:06,340 --> 00:56:09,380 # It's been no bed of roses 954 00:56:10,460 --> 00:56:13,100 # No pleasure cruise... # 955 00:56:14,620 --> 00:56:17,460 I don't think either Roger or I ever thought that this would happen. 956 00:56:17,460 --> 00:56:20,620 We thought it was kind of done, in the old days, when we lost Freddie - 957 00:56:20,620 --> 00:56:22,540 and it's wonderful that we have Adam. 958 00:56:22,540 --> 00:56:24,380 You need an extraordinary figurehead, 959 00:56:24,380 --> 00:56:25,580 and we do have it in Adam. 960 00:56:25,580 --> 00:56:30,620 # We are the champions, my friends 961 00:56:33,420 --> 00:56:38,380 # We'll keep on fighting till the end... # 962 00:56:40,940 --> 00:56:43,220 I didn't even think we'd ever get to this age. 963 00:56:43,220 --> 00:56:45,260 You don't think of it, you know? 964 00:56:45,260 --> 00:56:48,260 We spent half our lives building up this legacy of songs 965 00:56:48,260 --> 00:56:50,300 and sort of contact with an audience, 966 00:56:50,300 --> 00:56:51,940 and now we can still be Queen. 967 00:56:51,940 --> 00:56:53,740 In some ways, it's a miracle. 968 00:56:53,740 --> 00:56:58,220 # Cos we are the champions 969 00:57:00,060 --> 00:57:05,100 # We are the champions, my friends 970 00:57:07,740 --> 00:57:12,860 # And we'll keep on fighting till the end 971 00:57:15,980 --> 00:57:23,700 # We are the champions 972 00:57:23,700 --> 00:57:27,460 # No time for losers 973 00:57:27,460 --> 00:57:32,420 # Cos we are the champions 974 00:57:47,540 --> 00:57:50,260 # Remember 975 00:57:50,260 --> 00:58:04,380 # We are the champions of... 976 00:58:05,900 --> 00:58:11,020 # ..of the world. #