Name: Live at the Rainbow '74 [Deluxe Edition] [Digipak]
Brand: Virgin
SKU: 57199535
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Live at the Rainbow '74 [Deluxe Edition] [Digipak]

Rating

Album: Live at the Rainbow '74 [Deluxe Edition] [Digipak]
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Procession	More Info...	0:01
2)	Father to Son	More Info...	0:06
3)	Ogre Battle	More Info...	0:05
4)	Son and Daughter	More Info...	0:03
5)	Guitar Solo	More Info...	0:02
6)	Son and Daughter	More Info...	0:02
7)	White Queen (As It Began)	More Info...	0:05
8)	Great King Rat	More Info...	0:07
9)	The Fairy Feller's Master-stroke	More Info...	0:03
10)	Keep Yourself Alive	More Info...	0:02
11)	Drum Solo	More Info...
12)	Keep Yourself Alive (Reprise)	More Info...	0:01
13)	Seven Seas of Rhye	More Info...	0:03
14)	Modern Times Rock 'N' Roll	More Info...	0:02
15)	Medley: Jailhouse Rock/Stupid Cupid/Be Bop a Lula	More Info...	0:04
16)	Liar	More Info...	0:08
17)	See What a Fool I've Been	More Info...	0:05
18)	Stone Cold Crazy	More Info...	0:02
19)	Liar	More Info...	0:08
20)	In the Lap of the Gods... Revisited	More Info...	0:04
21)	Big Spender	More Info...	0:01
22)	Modern Times Rock 'N' Roll	More Info...	0:03
23)	Jailhouse Rock	More Info...	0:04
24)	God Save the Queen	More Info...	0:01

Album: Live at the Rainbow '74 [Deluxe Edition] [Digipak]
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Procession	More Info...	0:01
2)	Father to Son	More Info...	0:06
3)	Ogre Battle	More Info...	0:05
4)	Son and Daughter	More Info...	0:03
5)	Guitar Solo	More Info...	0:02
6)	Son and Daughter	More Info...	0:02
7)	White Queen (As It Began)	More Info...	0:05
8)	Great King Rat	More Info...	0:07
9)	The Fairy Feller's Master-stroke	More Info...	0:03
10)	Keep Yourself Alive	More Info...	0:02
11)	Drum Solo	More Info...
12)	Keep Yourself Alive (Reprise)	More Info...	0:01
13)	Seven Seas of Rhye	More Info...	0:03
14)	Modern Times Rock 'N' Roll	More Info...	0:02
15)	Medley: Jailhouse Rock/Stupid Cupid/Be Bop a Lula	More Info...	0:04
16)	Liar	More Info...	0:08
17)	See What a Fool I've Been	More Info...	0:05
18)	Stone Cold Crazy	More Info...	0:02
19)	Liar	More Info...	0:08
20)	In the Lap of the Gods... Revisited	More Info...	0:04
21)	Big Spender	More Info...	0:01
22)	Modern Times Rock 'N' Roll	More Info...	0:03
23)	Jailhouse Rock	More Info...	0:04
24)	God Save the Queen	More Info...	0:01

Performer Notes

Personnel: Freddie Mercury (vocals, piano); Brian May (guitar, background vocals); John Deacon (bass guitar, background vocals); Roger Taylor (drums, background vocals).
Recording information: The Rainbow (03/31/1974); The Rainbow (11/19/1974).
Photographers: Ian Dickson; Douglas Puddifoot; Jill Furmanovsky; Richard Gray ; Johnny Dewe Mathews ; Mike Putland; Richard Paul-Jones.
Allegedly planned for an official release back in 1974 or 1975 but scrapped by the creation of A Night at the Opera, Live at the Rainbow '74 fills in part of Queen's history: it is the first official live album to capture the band at their pre-Night at the Opera fury. The brief 1989 release, At the Beeb, touched upon the same territory, capturing their two sessions from 1973, but this is something else, a full concert -- and in the case of the double-CD, quadruple vinyl, two full concerts -- that showcases the band's rapidly increasing range, not to mention their brute force. Soon they'd trade winding, fantastical detours for sculpted pomp -- something evident both in composition and in Brian May's guitar solos, which are so lengthy here they're indexed as their own track within the middle of a song -- but here they still feel untrammeled, as if they could stray off the reservation at any second. That they remain relatively focused is a testament to their increasing musicality; they may not control all of their instincts but there's an appeal in hearing a band testing their limits on the verge of becoming great. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine