Freddie Mercury | Planner for the Magic tour, with set list, 1986

Freddie Mercury

Items relating to the 'Magic' tour:

i) Freddie Mercury's planner for the Magic Tour, Europe, June 4-August 9 1986, with brief manuscript annotations, tour ephemera tipped in including a signed postcard, tickets to the Queen concert in Hungary, doodles and manuscript notes on Vienna Marriot Hotel headed paper, with gift cards from Mary to Joe Fanelli, 'Freddie's Copy' to rear cover in silver marker, ringbound, front cover coming loose, well used, lacking plastic protective cover

ii) Freddie Mercury, autograph manuscript set list from the Magic tour, 1 page, 1986, removed from a spiral-bound notebook

The 'Magic' tour ran from June to August 1986 and saw Queen playing across Europe including in Budapest (this was the largest concert by a Western band in the Communist bloc), and culminated with a performance at Knebworth Park in front of a crowd of 125,000. These were Queen's final shows with Freddie Mercury.

The set list inlcuded here reflects the shape of these shows, which included songs from throughout Queen's career as well as a couple of rock and roll classics like 'Tutti Frutti'. 'Radio Ga Ga' was the first encore, and the set ended with 'We Will Rock You', 'Friends Will be Friends' and 'We Are The Champions' (the 'God Save The Queen' solo is here omitted). This is probably a draft setlist written out before the tour commenced: the only concert at which 'Bohemian Rhapsody' was performed midway through the set just after 'I Want To Break Free' was the first concert in Stockholm, after which it was moved to later in the running order. 

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