Queen - Live In Paris 01-03-1979 (Best Source Merge)

Taken from Chinwonder2 on Queenzone since his video was blocked on YouTube.

Brian May greets the audience in French after the second song, telling them it's the 63rd and last show of the tour, much to their delight. He then continues in English, "This is the last concert and we're gonna have some fun. Chantez!"

This is the first time Freddie addresses the audience as "brothers and sisters" before the familar piano intro to Somebody To Love, as he would famously do at the Milton Keynes '82 show. There are many other great moments on this night, the last of the European tour.

After the third song, Freddie says, "Yeah, I hope you got your bicycle bells tonight." He lets a few audience members ring away for a brief moment, and he responds, "Ah yeah, they sound great!" He continues, "We have a hell of a lot of music for you tonight. I don't know which order they're gonna come in. We'll see."

He wasn't kidding, as this would turn out to be the longest Queen show ever, clocking in at about 140 minutes. Although they play Fat Bottomed Girls next, they would also play If You Can't Beat Them later in the set (they usually played only one or the other). Freddie does some great adlibs at the end of Fat Bottomed Girls tonight.

Freddie, before the medley: "This next song is about a really dirty old man, as you know. We seem to get a lot of those guys. Yes, we really do. This is called Death On Two Legs." They play the medley as usual, but for the last night's sake, the band stop for a moment after Bicycle Race to let audience members ring their bicycle bells.

Some fans continue to ring their bicycle bells during other songs, but it becomes an annoyance for others. Near the end of Get Down Make Love, on the audience recording a fan is heard saying, "I wish they'd stop ringing those bloody bells!"

Freddie throws in a quick reference to Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode, shouting "Go Johnny!" during the Now I'm Here instrumental. He would do this plenty of times over the next few years.

The band's instrumental prowess shows in the end section of Spread Your Wings.

During the intro jam to Dreamers Ball, Freddie says, "We're gonna take you to New Orleans right now. Quick fling from Paris [in a French accent]."

It's unfortunate that If You Can't Beat Them wasn't included on Live Killers, as this version would have been an ideal candidate. Everyone sounds very strong, particularly Brian, who offers a great guitar solo at the end.

It's Late is a fantastic version, with a perfect May solo. Freddie's vocals leading into it are wonderful.

Tonight is also probably the longest (and surely one of the loosest versions of) Keep Yourself Alive ever played, as the intro is over a minute and a half long, and the song clocks in at 5:30. Later, a great version of Jailhouse Rock is thrown in for the last night's sake, along with Big Spender. The latter wouldn't be performed again until 1986.

Segments of Get Down Make Love and Brighton Rock from this show are featured on Live Killers. See the Live Killers analysis for more details.

This entire show likely exists on film in Queen's vaults, and much of the footage has become available over the years. See this table for details.

Some bits of footage from this show were used for the promo video of Love Of My Life (the bits with Freddie in red suspenders). The bulk of the footage comes from Japan. See Tokyo '79 for details.

In November 2009, the band posted some concert videos from the 70s on their website in conjunction with the release of their "Absolute Greatest" compilation, including Dreamers Ball from this show. While it is still the single camera and mono audio, the picture and sound quality are exquisite. The audio from this track was released on a Japanese bootleg called "Rare Cuts Vol. 3" in late 2011.

Pro footage of Big Spender was shown at the 2012 UK fan club convention.

Setlist:
00:00 We Will Rock You (fast)
04:10 Let Me Entertain You
07:42 Somebody To Love
14:47 Fat Bottomed Girls
19:57 Death On Two Legs
23:26 Killer Queen
25:20 Bicycle Race
27:05 I'm In Love With My Car
29:18 Get Down Make Love
34:41 You're My Best Friend
37:12 Now I'm Here
46:00 Don't Stop Me Now
50:51 Mustapha (intro)
51:12 If You Can't Beat Them
56:29 Spread Your Wings
1:02:51 Dreamers Ball
1:07:25 Love Of My Life
1:11:53 '39
1:15:15 It's Late
1:22:45 Brighton Rock
1:37:24 Keep Yourself Alive
1:42:50 Bohemian Rhapsody
1:48:14 Tie Your Mother Down
1:51:26 Sheer Heart Attack
1:57:23 Big Spender
1:58:46 Jailhouse Rock
2:02:18 We Will Rock You
2:04:44 We Are The Champions
2:08:03 God Save The Queen

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