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Here's the set list:

Intro Beautiful Day Mix

Reaching Out

Tie Your Mother Down

Fat Bottomed Girls - Paul screwed this song up badly and his voice just couldn't do it.

I Want to Break Free

Take Love

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Love of My Life - Brian sang acoustic in memory of Freddie, saying he believed Freddie would have liked this and that Freddie was here

Hammer to Fall

Feel Like Makin' Love

Let There Be Drums - about a 15 minute drum solo, Roger didn't play fast, but he kept a beautifully perfect rhythm

I'm in Love with My Car

Guitar solo - about 20 minutes, one of the most awesome and hypnotic guitar solos I have ever heard. I must say BRIAN MAY IS FAR FAR UNDER-RATED IN HIS GUITAR ABILITIES. Sheer blood and guts and such a touch, one could only hope a lover could touch them in the way Brian touches that guitar.

Last Horizon

Bad Company

Can't Get Enough

These Were the Days of Our Lives - Roger sang solo dedicated to Freddie- montage of all 4 Queen when starting out. Excellently done and Roger's voice covered it beautifully. Very touching tribute to the 2 men who weren't there.

Radio Ga Ga

Dragon Attack - into'd as a new song and for the first and only time, both Queen and Paul sounded on the same page with the energy and soul from both sides showing well.

Another One Bites the Dust - wouldn't be a Queen concert without it but Paul Rodgers destroyed the song

Under Pressure

The Show Must Go On

Bohemian Rhapsody - Freddie is shown on the piano and it ends up being a Freddie montage.
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We Will Rock You

All Right Now

We Are the Champions

God Save the Queen

It was a 2 1/2 hour show and Brian May is truly under rated as a guitarist, as is Roger Taylor on drums and voice.

Paul was good but he doesn't have the Freddie voice or showmanship. And there were a few songs where his voice was detrimental to the songs.... "We are The Champions" "Fat Bottomed Girls" "Boh. Rhap." (The final few rocking verses). He tried desperately (maybe too much so) to make the Queen songs sound like Bad Company .... which I'm sorry they had a few hits but Bad Company was NOT a great band.

I got the feeling Paul tended to look at this as an oppurtunity to cash in and had no true respect for the music at all. Perhaps it was only natural to put more feeling into your own music (Bad Company, All Right Now, etc) but there were times when it was like he strained to get some feeling out.

I truly don't want to turn this into a Freddie memorial, but when the crowd noise is deafening and one bawls like a baby upon seeing this montage of Freddie.... it shows what kind of charisma hold he has over the audience even in death.

Overall, a great rocking show worth every cent. Brian May and Roger Taylor definately could have carried this off by themselves, if their voices could have held it.

I look forward to seeing them again, perhaps it would be better without Paul Rodgers, next time. Hopefully, the next vocalist, while having his own take on the songs, will have a deeper respect and love for Freddie and the boys' lyrics and music.

A good fit in all honesty, David Bowie..... that would be my choice.

But I also realize that when they were in their prime with Freddie, the fucking shows they gave had to be beyond belief, cause even with Paul Rogers, this show ranks among the greatest I have ever seen. WOW..... I must have missed a lot not being a Queen fan in their heyday.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"