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Pavillion de Paris 1979  We Will Rock You (fast)  Let Me Entertain You  Somebody To Love  Fat Bottomed Girls  You’re My Best Friend  Now I’m Here  Don’t Stop Me Now  If You Can’t Beat Them  Spread Your Wings  Dreamers Ball  Bohemian Rhapsody  Tie Your Mother Down  Sheer Heart Attack

Bodokan Hall, Tokyo 1979:  We Will Rock You (fast)  Let Me Entertain You  Killer Queen  Bicycle Race  I’m In Love With My Car  Teo Torriatte  Keep Yourself Alive  Don’t Stop Me Now  Bohemian Rhapsody (cut)  We Will Rock You  We Are The Champions

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All three Paris concerts were videotaped by QTV and edited together with some footage being used for a documentary.  AS list this as being from March 1st.  Many of the tracks are but ”Somebody To Love,” “If You Can’t Beat Them” (with the “Mustapha” introduction coming from the March 1st show), “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Tie Your Mother Down,” and “Sheer Heart Attack” come from the February 28th show.  It is strange that, for a professionally videotaped concert, only one camera was used and sometimes the one manning the camera didn’t know how to tape them.  During “Now I’m Here” the camera follows Freddie around the stage during May’s guitar solo and during ”Don’t Stop Me Now” the camera is trained on May through the verses, only capturing Freddie while singing the middle part and end. 

The performances are fantastic with the fast “We Will Rock You” and “Let Me Entertain You” being among the strongest openings for a Queen concert.  “If You Can’t Beat Them” with the short “Mustapha” introduction sounds much more exciting live than in the studio and turns out to be an underrated number.  “Don’t Stop Me Now” is dedicated to the road crew who have been so good during the tour “but don’t let it get to your heads, girls.”  The final song on the tape is “Sheer Heart Attack” taken at what seems double time.  May busts a string early in the song but doesn’t let that stop him, playing guitar lines that are unique to this show. 

The second half of the DVD contains a thirty-two minute television broadcast from the April 25th concert.  Fifteen minutes of this footage was broadcast in Japanese television in the ’80’s but in 2002 almost double the amount was broadcast on television.  This first surfaced on silver DVD in the Pride And Joy(Wardour-047) set that also has audience recordings for the April 14th and 23rd Tokyo shows.  The video quality is extremely good and the sound quality is excellent and it is great to have such rare footage commercially available.  The songs are mostly edited in one way or another but what is present is great.  The most spectacular visual is seeing Freddie sitting on the shoulders of Superman dressed in a campy red-rhinestone studded short suit! 

It is unfortunate that by this point in the tour Freddie’s voice was almost completely shot and every song suffers as a result.  The rest of the band play great though, and both of these documents convey the dark nihilism that is Queen’s Jazz tour.  Apocalypse  Sound did a good job in pairing these two shows together into one package since footage from this era is hard to come by.  This is presented in the NTSC format region zero to be compatible with all DVD players.  The packaging is a cardboard DVD digipack with many photos from the Killers era and a photo from the “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” video shoot (Deacon wearing the Bike It T-shirt!)  This is worth having for all Queen collectors.