LIVE IN HYDE PARK 1976

2 CD & 2DVD
Label: Masterworks
Country: Japan.
Released: September 2023.
Recorded: Hyde Park, London England  September 18th 1976.
Sound: I guess very good & excellent sound, but not as good as officially live recording.
Comments:  Again a release from 'Masterworks' with the Hyde Park 1976 free concert. I don't have this bootleg, but look's like a nice release. I found some info of the gig on Wikipedia, see below.
The full concert was filmed & recorded, but so far not released officially in any format.
A 'raw' video was made out to shown on early Queen UK fan club convention's in the late 80'ies & early 90'ies. The quality wasn't so good on this video.
As far as I know, the convention video seems to be the masters of later bootleg releasing's.

As I see it, this Masterworks production seems to be the best release of this concert so far.
Roots: I guess as mention above, from a Queen fan club convention video.
Time:  

Front cover
CD 1 
Complete Soundboard New Remaster AI Stereo Edition.

1. Intro: 'A Day At The Races' Theme  (tape)
2. Bohemian Rhapsody  (Opera & Rock Section)
3. Ogre Battle
4. Sweet Lady
5. White Queen (As It Began)
6. Flick Of The Wrist
7. You're My Best Friend
8. Medley: Bohemian Rhapsody  ~
9.              Killer Queen  ~
10.            The March Of The Black Queen  ~
11.            Bohemian Rhapsody  (end rock part)
12. Bring Back That Leroy Brown
13. Brighton Rock
14. Son And Daughter
15. '39
16. You Take My Breath Away
17. The Prophet's Song
18. Stone Cold Crazy
19. Keep Yourself Alive
20. Liar
21. In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited
22. Ending  (edited)
  CD 2
 MATRIX Audience Recording Master.

1. Intro: 'A Day At The Races' Theme  (tape)
2. Bohemian Rhapsody  (Opera & Rock Section)
3. Ogre Battle
4. Sweet Lady
5. White Queen (As It Began)
6. Flick Of The Wrist
7. You're My Best Friend
8. Medley: Bohemian Rhapsody  ~
9.              Killer Queen  ~
10.            The March Of The Black Queen  ~
11.            Bohemian Rhapsody  (end rock part)
12. Bring Back That Leroy Brown
13. Brighton Rock
14. Son And Daughter
15. '39
16. You Take My Breath Away
17. The Prophet's Song
18. Stone Cold Crazy
19. Keep Yourself Alive
20. Liar
21. In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited
22. Ending  (edited)
DVD 1
WIDE SCREEN 16:9 NEW REMASTER AI STEREO EDITION

Opening -  'A Day At The Races' theme on tape.
Bohemian Rhapsody  (Opera-tape, and Rock Section-live)
Ogre Battle
Sweet Lady
White Queen  (As It Began)
Flick Of The Wrist
You're My Best Friend
Medley: Bohemian Rhapsody  ~
             Killer Queen  ~
             The March Of The Black Queen  ~
             Bohemian Rhapsody  (rock end part)
Bring Back That Leroy Brown
Brighton Rock
Son And Daughter
'39
You Take My Breath Away
The Prophet's Song
Stone Cold Crazy
Keep Yourself Alive
Liar
In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited
Ending....

Live at Hyde Park, London, U.K. September 18, 1976
1=Enhanced Stereo Remaster LPCM

EXTRAS
EDITED VIDEO COLLECTION

Bohemian Rhapsody  (Opening Edited)
Ogre Battle  (Edited)
You're My Best Friend  (Edited)
Bohemian Rhapsody  (Edited)
'39  (Edited)
The Prophet's Song  (Edited)

ARCHIVES I
Sweet Lady  (Complete Alternate Version)
Keep Yourself Alive  (Alternate Angle)
Sweet Lady  (Alternate Film Transfer)

HYDE PARK - MEMORIES
(Keep Yourself Alive / Flick Of  The Wrist / '39 - Edited)

HYDE PARK - LOOKING BACK
Sweet Lady  (Video Comparison)
8MM FILM FOOTAGES

NTSC 16:9 Dolby Digital Stereo time approx.83+29=112min.
 DVD 2
ORIGINAL FILM MASTERS 4:3 STANDARD EDITION
(uncropped with alternate-angle)

Opening -  'A Day At The Races' theme on tape.
Bohemian Rhapsody  (Opera-tape, and Rock Section-live)
Ogre Battle
Sweet Lady
White Queen  (As It Began)
Flick Of The Wrist
You're My Best Friend
Medley: Bohemian Rhapsody  ~
             Killer Queen  ~
             The March Of The Black Queen  ~
             Bohemian Rhapsody  (rock end part)
Bring Back That Leroy Brown
Brighton Rock
Son And Daughter
'39
You Take My Breath Away
The Prophet's Song
Stone Cold Crazy
Keep Yourself Alive
Liar
In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited
Ending....

Live at Hyde Park, London, U.K. September 18, 1976

EXTRAS
ARCHIVES II
HYDE PARK 1976 FILM OUTTAKES

Bohemian Rhapsody  (Top Of The Pops TV 1976 Version)
Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
(Top Of The Pops TV 1977 Re-Broadcast Version)

HYDE PARK BBC TV NEWS
HYDE PARK BBC TV REPORT
QUEEN THE GREATEST LIVE EPISODE

NTSC 16:9 (4:3) Dolby Digital Stereo time approx.83+38=121min.


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Back cover

Review from WIKIPEDIA.

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 organised 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 went 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.