The film follows the story from Freddie’s last concert to the tribute concert itself which took place on April 20th 1992. The documentary features new interviews with many of those who were closest to him, including Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor, Freddie’s sister Kashmira Bulsara, his friends Anita Dobson and David Wigg and his PA, Peter Freestone. At approximately 23:00 into the 2002 DVD, there is a link to hidden footage of the Elizabeth Taylor Speech, length 4 minutes.

This is a review of the U.S. version of the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert on Blu-ray, released 10/22/13.The concert was broadcast in 76 countries, and about one billion people watched the show live. All proceeds were donated to a specially created AIDS charity organization. Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose Image: picture-allaiance/dpa/empics/R. Paul This is a double DVD set, which contains the first discs from both the ' Greatest Video Hits I' and ' Greatest Video Hits II' DVD's.

Brian: Thank you. OK, thank you. It gives me great pleasure, it gives me real great pleasure to introduce our next guests, there seems to be a certain amount of noise going on here. These guys are real friends, and they're possibly, more than any other group on this planet, the people that understand exactly what Queen have been about all these years, and what Freddie was about all the years. Ladies and gentlemen, please give your best welcome for Paul, Pat, Nuno and Gary - Extreme. Guitarist Brian May admitted that he was extremely nervous before the beginning of the show, butnot so much about the music; he rather feared he would forget to name someone. They didn't all perfectly succeed: The Who's Roger Daltrey couldn't quite reach those high tones on "I Want It All,"Paul Young's "Radio Ga Ga" was less than memorable, and Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant had problems remembering the lyrics to the epic song "Innuendo," which Mercury had composed as a homage to Led Zeppelin. See also the 2003 release ' Greatest Video Hits II' and the 2012 USA release ' Greatest Video Hits'. Rehearsal footage ('Tie Your Mother Down', 'Seven Seas Of Rhye', 'Tear It Up', 'A Kind Of Magic', 'Now I'm Here', 'I Want To Break Free' and 'Bohemian Rhapsody')Sound produced by David Richards assisted by Justin Shirley-Smith, Andre Gauchat, Dominik Tarqua and Ruadhri Cushnan Metallica's three-song performance was made into a UK tour edition single for "Nothing Else Matters", entitled Live at Wembley Stadium and released in Europe just one week after the concert, on 27 April 1992. The band later released in 2021 a re-mixed and re-mastered version of their performance as well as a rendition of Queen's Stone Cold Crazy with James Hetfield and Tony Iommi on the remastered box set of their album Metallica. Even with all that star power, that was just the warm-up act to the core of the program, whenthe remaining members of Queen performed with a series of guest singers. They improved the video quality of the concert and cleaned it up a lot. The picture may look a bit pixelated

Interview with Roger Daltrey, and further concert footage of 'I Want It All', ending with the album version Other critics complained that many of theperforming artists didn't seem connected toFreddie Mercury.Queen membersonly had five months to organize the whole event.David Bowie sang "Under Pressure" with Annie Lennox, who replaced Freddie Mercury in the hit he had recorded with Bowie in 1981. Then, after singing "We Could Be Heroes," Bowie spontaneously went down on his knee and started reciting the Lord's Prayer. That confused the audience - some even started to laugh.Even Bowie later admitted he wasn't quite sure what he was doing: "I felt as if I were being transported by the situation. I was so scared as I was doing it," he said. since you are up-scaling from video to blu-ray, however, it always looked way saturated (especially the reds) Def Leppard released their version of "Now I'm Here" (with May) from the concert, as a B-side to their single " Tonight" in April 1993. Mercury Phoenix Trust Information (' Say It's Not True' by Queen + Paul Rodgers) (2013 reissues only) Roger: OK, they're British, they're number one all over the world right now, please welcome on stage Def Leppard.

The show marked bassist John Deacon's final full-length concert with Queen (save a short live appearance with Brian May, Roger Taylor and Elton John in 1997). The profits from the concert were used to launch the Mercury Phoenix Trust, an AIDS charity organization.

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The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert was attended by over 70,000 people, with over a billion viewers on television. With one collective voice, for four glorious hours, the concert not only celebrated Freddie, but it also placed HIV/AIDS clearly in the spotlight and raised awareness of the disease.