Footage from the Budapest Concert Featured in Queen’s New Music Video

Freddie Mercury’s death in 1991 effectively ended Queen, after which the surviving members only released Made in Heaven in 1995, a reworking of old recordings. Recently, however, they have been releasing new videos of their old hits, reports Magyar Nemzet.

For the second time in recent weeks, they have treated fans to a new video, this time for “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” edited from footage of Queen’s performance in Budapest 38 years ago.

The legendary band made their first appearance across the Iron Curtain in Hungary on July 27, 1986, in what was a landmark moment in the history of rock for the entire Eastern Bloc.

The world-famous British band’s concert at the Népstadion (People’s Stadium, now Ferenc Puskás Stadium) was attended by 70,000 fans.

The story of Queen was made into a feature film, which was released in 2018, titled Bohemian Rhapsody. In addition, a film of the 1986 Budapest concert was made at the expense of the Hungarian state. The original title was Queen Live In Budapest. The premiere of the film was also in the Hungarian capital in December 1986. In 2012, the concert film was made available worldwide on Blu-ray and DVD for the first time, with a new title: Hungarian Rhapsody: Queen Live in Budapest.

The Budapest concert in 1986, was part of the band’s final tour with original lead singer Freddie Mercury, The Magic Tour.

To make the concert even more special, Mercury learned and performed one of the most beautiful and well-known Hungarian folksongs, “Tavaszi szél vizet áraszt“ (“Spring Wind Floods Water”).

Fact

Queen is a British rock band formed in London in 1970, by Freddie Mercury, Brian May, and Roger Taylor, later joined by John Deacon. Their third album, A Night at the Opera, released in 1975, brought them international success. By the early 1980s, Queen was one of the biggest rock bands in the world. In 1991, Freddie Mercury died from a complication of AIDS. One more album was released featuring Mercury’s vocals, 1995’s Made in Heaven. John Deacon retired in 1997, while May and Taylor continued to make sporadic appearances together. Since 2004, they have toured as “Queen +”, with vocalists Paul Rodgers and Adam Lambert.

John Deacon, Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury, and Brian May (L-R). Photo via Facebook/Queen

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