Here's my Christmas gift to all of you lovely subscribers! We have the nearly complete audience recording from Queen's first Montreal concert of 1981! With this recording now available, we can now compare it to "We Will Rock You," and "Rock Montreal." It is very interesting: Some of the songs and lines match up with one concert DVD (WWRY or Rock Montreal), and others don't. This raises the question of overdubs on the official releases, and possible patchwork from the second night (though we don't have the audience recording from that night). What we can be sure, is that overdubs done on WWRY, were removed for the Rock Montreal release (some songs match Rock Montreal, but they don't match WWRY, but they match this recording)! Though I am skeptical of this claim, I have read posts concerning that there was "autotune" work done for Rock Montreal. We can debate and comment on the videos about this!

Freddie's voice is in excellent shape on this recording, and he delivers some versions of songs, that are better than the second night (Somebody To Love, Under Pressure, and We Are The Champions being prime examples). Although this is counterbalanced by him flubbing the lyrics in Let Me Entertain You, and oversinging the HELL out of Killer Queen! The quality on this concert is pretty good overall (though the pitch is unstable during the first few minutes), and it's mostly complete (Dragon Attack, the Now I'm Here Reprise, and Love Of My Life are missing)!

ENJOY!!!

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