Queen - Save Me (Live in San Diego, California, USA) [July 5, 1980]

After coming off of the Crazy Tour six months earlier which is regarded as the best for Freddie's voice, he continues the momentum into the US leg of the Game Tour where he sounds just as good! San Diego now takes over Phoenix as the earliest recording from the tour, and boy oh boy, what a show! One of my new favourites for sure. Huge thank you to John Purlia for recording and graciously sharing this gem, and everyone else who made this possible!

For the longest time, Oakland was undoubtedly ranked as the top version of Save Me from the Game Tour and rightfully so. But that all changed when this San Diego tape emerged recently! The band are just as tight on this rendition and Freddie hits all the incredible high notes he hit in Oakland. What sets this one apart is Freddie's beautiful tone, reminiscent of his outstanding performances on the previous tour. With Freddie's vocals on par with the aforementioned Crazy Tour versions and the band putting in their best showing for the song to date, this ranks as a top 2-3 version of all time (at the very least)!

NOTE: This video does not come from the same night as the audio. They have been synced together to give us an idea of how the actual performance would have looked if it were professionally recorded.

The visuals are from the Sao Paulo 20/03/1981 show (huge thanks to Chief Mouse for the restoration) and the audio is from the best-sounding audience recording available.

You are more than welcome to take these videos for personal use (in compliance with copyright laws), but if you do, please give credit as finding the best possible video & audio sources, syncing them together in-time and rendering takes a lot of time.

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