This week’s episode of Queen The Greatest Live takes fans back to July 1986, when the band were on their Magic Tour.
This would be the last time both Freddie Mercury and John Deacon would tour with Queen.
Footage this time around is taken from one of their two sold-out Wembley Stadium concerts, performing to 72,000 people at a time.
The focus is on Is This The World We Created, a moving and emotional piece sung by Freddie with Brian May on acoustic guitar, following on from the explosive opening of One Vision and Tie Your Mother Down.
An accompanying caption on the video reads: “With Brian writing the music and Freddie penning most of the lyric – the pair having watched an agonising documentary on the African famine of the ’80s – this contemplative ballad from 1984’s The Works album also proved a live favourite, taking a pumped-up crowd to an entirely different headspace. And as we can see, the audience are just as captivated here, as at any other point in the show.
“A year earlier at the same venue, Is This The World We Created…? had been a highlight of the Live Aid benefit concert’s finale. Now, this stunning duet from the band’s own ’86 Wembley show lays the song beautifully bare, with Brian’s deft fingerstyle on a nylon-string classical guitar carrying Freddie’s yearning vocal.”
