Queen - Live in Sun City - 19th October 1984 (2025 QLR Remaster)

Original upload:    • Queen - Live in Sun City (October 19th, 19...   Tour:    • The Works Tour (1984 - 1985)   | Leg 2: Sun City Date: 19th October 1984 Venue: Sun City Superbowl City: Bophuthatswana, South Africa Attendance: 6,000 Used recording(s): • Soundboard recording (A+/A): SBD ► ? ► Maxell XLII Cassettes ► MiniDisc ► PC (Audacity) ► MP3 (160kbs) ► MediaMonkey 5 ► FLAC Level 8 ► foobar2000 (tracks merged into one) ► iZotope RX 10 (De-clip, De-hum, EQ, Spectral De-noise, Manual De-click, Azimuth alignment) ► Audacity (Skipping errors restored, Volume fluctuations/channel imbalances repaired, Speed corrected) ► CUE Tools (tracks re-split) ► FLAC level 8 2025 Remaster by @queenliverarities Just a few days after the end of the European Tour, Queen would play nine show at the Sun City Superbowl in Bophuthatswana, a (mostly unrecognised) independent state from the current South Africa; mainly to give the Sun City Group unlimited access to gambling and other questionable free time activities that were banned in South Africa. In condemnation of the apartheid regime in the country, the United Nations had imposed a boycott on South Africa (which included Sun City), trying to prevent bands to support the regime by playing long residencies in Sun City. As a lot of money was offered to acts in order to convince them of ignoring the boycott, several bands and musicians gave in and played there anyway, earning them public criticism, fines and an inclusion on the UN's blacklist. Unfortunately, one of these bands was Queen. Officially stating that they were "an unpolitical band" and would "play for anyone who wanted to see them", the band at least tried to ensure they were playing to mixed audiences, giving away free tickets to the black community. In the end, this plan wouldn't work out as well as intended and the band received lots of backlash, making at least some of the band members regret this somewhat short-sighted decision. Almost like it was bad karma, Freddie faced severe vocal issues during the first few shows with one concert (on 7th October) even being ended early after just about 20 minutes! Freddie was given steroids afterwards to ensure the following shows would go ahead. This soundboard recording is from the penultimate show in Sun City and shows both Freddie and the band in fantastic shape, giving one of the best performances of the entire year and tour. Unfortunately, it"s missing the solo spots and with no other recordings or sources existing, it is currently unknown if "Stone Cold Crazy", "Great King Rat" and the keyboard solo were still performed in Sun City. Rub was so kind to finally remaster this soundboard to take it to the next level soundwise and allowed me to upload it to my channel. Please also consider supporting him by checking out the original upload and his channel! 00:00:00 - 01. Machines (Or 'Back to Humans') (tape) 00:01:41 - 02. Tear It Up 00:03:24 - 03. Tie Your Mother Down 00:07:13 - 04. Under Pressure 00:10:46 - 05. Somebody to Love / The March of the Black Queen / My Fairy King 00:15:29 - 06. Killer Queen 00:17:33 - 07. Seven Seas of Rhye 00:18:50 - 08. Keep Yourself Alive 00:21:05 - 09. Liar 00:23:41 - 10. Impromptu 00:28:50 - 11. It's a Hard Life 00:33:47 - 12. Dragon Attack 00:38:29 - 13. Now I'm Here / Johnny B. Goode 00:44:24 - 14. Is This the World We Created...? 00:47:49 - 15. Love of My Life (cut) 00:49:56 - 16. Another One Bites the Dust 00:54:03 - 17. We Will Rock You / Hammer to Fall 01:00:15 - 18. Crazy Little Thing Called Love 01:05:47 - 19. Bohemian Rhapsody 01:11:22 - 20. Radio Ga Ga e n c o r e (cut) 01:17:06 - 21. I Want to Break Free 01:20:23 - 22. Jailhouse Rock e n c o r e (cut) 01:23:02 - 23. We Will Rock You 01:25:28 - 24. We Are the Champions (fades out) You can download every show I"ve uploaded either on queenboots.live or the Queen Forum (queenchat.boards.net)!