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Label:	Soundcraft Records 2025.
Country:	Europe.
Released:	September 2025.
Recorded:	Hyde Park, London, England September 18th 1976.
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Cover:	Color cover.
Comments:	From the 'Free In The Park' festival day in Hyde Park London. This concert was not a part of a proper tour. The band played at 3 summer festivals in the UK this summer. Total 4 concerts. 2 day's festival at Playhouse Theatre in Edinburgh, 1 at Cardiff Castle in Cardiff, and this in Hyde Park, London. This Queen concert was filmed and audio recorded. But, so far only a few songs have been used as bonus tracks, on official releases in recent years. This 2lp contains the full concert. There's a handful of other bootlegs of this concert released over the years. To much to mention. The source of most of them comes from a raw video version, which was shown on early UK Queen conventions in the late 80ies and early 90ies. The sound & picture on this video, can not be compared with officially releasing's. 100 numbered copies on BLUE vinyl. 100 numbered copies on ORANG vinyl. 100 numbered copies on GOLD vinyl, with special embossed golden title included only for this version. Also for the gold version a 20x30 original repro flyer on cardboard paper. A limited BLACK version of test pressing disc, is also released. Unsure how many available. I'm so far, unsure of the sound source used on this 2lp. I will guess from the mention video, since I have never come over any complete audience recording of this concert.
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GOLD vinyl with special embossed golden
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ONLY on GOLD version, a 20x30 original
repro flyer on cardboard paper.

SIDE 1 Intro: 'A Day At The Races' Theme (tape) Bohemian Rhapsody (opera & rock section) Ogre Battle Sweet Lady White Queen (As It Began) Flick Of The Wrist	SIDE 2 You're My Best Friend Medley: Bohemian Rhapsody ~ Killer Queen ~ The March Of The Black Queen ~ Bohemian Rhapsody (reprise) Bring Back That Leroy Brown Brighton Rock
SIDE 3 Son And Daughter '39 You Take My Breath Away (played for first time) The Prophet's Song Stone Cold Crazy	SIDE 4 Keep Yourself Alive Liar In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Queen live in Hyde Park 1976 was a concert by the band Queen. The concert took place on 18 September 1976 in Hyde Park, London. It was part of a brief summer tour of the UK by the band; they also played in Edinburgh and Cardiff on this tour. The Hyde Park gig was a free concert, which drew in a crowd of over 150,000, which was one of the largest audiences for any concert in London. The free concert was organized by Richard Branson, an entrepreneur at the time.
The band intended to perform their usual encores of Now I'm Here, Big Spender and Jailhouse Rock, but the show had run a half hour past its scheduled ending time (a curfew strictly enforced by the authorities).
The police threatened to arrest the band if they tried to go back on stage to play the encores, and Freddie was later quoted saying how he would prefer not to be stuck in a jail cell in his leotard, so the show was over after in the Lap of the Gods... Revisited.

There is more than one audio source of this concert as well as a video. According to Roger Taylor, the drummer of Queen, the complete show was supposed to be shown on TV in early 1977 but was never aired. Since then, the full show has leaked out to the Internet, though in terrible quality. Over the years, some of the footage has been shown in various documentaries and there are rumors of a future official release. The 2011 reissue of A Day at the Races includes a performance of "You Take My Breath Away" from this date.

The rest of the day's music was provided by The Kiki Dee Band, Supercharge, The Rich Kids (not to be confused with Midge Ure's band of the same name), Broken Wreck Chords and Steve Hillage. Elton John did not appear duetting with Kiki Dee for "Don't Go Breaking My Heart". She sang to a 2/3 life-sized cardboard cut-out of Elton instead.

A post-concert review by Record Mirror linked the performance, and especially Brian May's appearance and style, to the death of Jimi Hendrix, exactly six years earlier on 18 September 1970, but stating that "Queen aren't Hendrix,...they're Freddie Mercury."

The concert was shot on videotape, then kinescoped onto 16 mm film. Reportedly, the film negatives have been damaged. However, snippets from a high quality videotape source appeared on the A Night at the Opera 30th Anniversary DVD.