The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert
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An open air concert on Easter Monday, April 20th 1992 at London's Wembley Stadium, televised live to over one billion people. The profit of the concert was used to launch The Mercury Phoenix Trust.
In February 1992 at the annual BRIT awards ceremony, Brian May and Roger Taylor announced plans for an open air concert to celebrate Freddie Mercury's life. The tickets went on sale the next day and all 72,000 tickets sold out in just six hours, even though nobody knew who would play apart from remaining members of Queen.
This show marked bassist John Deacon's final concert with the band.
In April 2002 the concert was released on DVD and entered the UK charts at number 1.
The performances included:
- Metallica - Enter Sandman, Sad But True, Nothing Else Matters
- Extreme - Queen Medley, More Than Words
- Def Leppard - Let's Get Rocked, Animal, Now I'm Here (w/Brian May)
- Bob Geldof - Too Late God
- Spinal Tap - Majesty of Rock
- Guns N' Roses - Paradise City, Knockin' On Heaven's Door
- Elizabeth Taylor - Speech
Following Elizabeth Taylor's speech, the remaining members of Queen were joined onstage by Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath playing rhythm guitar until Robert Plant's arrival.
- Note: Plant performed Innuendo at the concert but would not allow it be on the DVD, explaining that his voice was in very poor condition, and most agree it was off. Also, when the concert aired on MTV, U2 dedicated a live performance via satellite from California of "Until The End Of The World" to Freddie.
- Joe Elliott/Slash - Tie Your Mother Down
- Roger Daltrey - I Want It All
- Gary Cherone - Hammer To Fall
- James Hetfield - Stone Cold Crazy
- Robert Plant - Introduction to 'Thank You', Crazy Little Thing Called Love
- Brian May - Too Much Love Will Kill You
- Paul Young - Radio Ga Ga
- Seal - Who Wants To Live Forever
- Lisa Stansfield - I Want To Break Free
- David Bowie/Annie Lennox - Under Pressure
- Ian Hunter/David Bowie/Mick Ronson/Joe Elliot/Phil Collen - All The Young Dudes
- David Bowie/Mick Ronson - Heroes
- George Michael - '39
- George Michael/Lisa Stansfield - These Are The Days Of Our Lives
- George Michael - Somebody To Love
- Elton John/Axl Rose - Bohemian Rhapsody
- Elton John - The Show Must Go On
- Axl Rose - We Will Rock You
- Liza Minnelli/Cast - We Are The Championsde:Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert