0:00:02 > 0:00:05This programme contains strong language.
0:00:05 > 0:00:11In summer of 2017, Queen embarked on a sell-out tour of North America.
0:00:15 > 0:00:20It followed in the footsteps of their breakthrough tour from 40 years before,
0:00:20 > 0:00:23revisiting many of the same cities and once again
0:00:23 > 0:00:28performing songs that are now amongst the biggest in rock history.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30# We will, we will rock you... #
0:00:32 > 0:00:34You know, it's incredible.
0:00:34 > 0:00:39About 40 years ago, four precocious boys came from England
0:00:39 > 0:00:42to see what we could do in this beautiful country of yours.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47We were here in 1977, maybe some of you were too, right?
0:00:47 > 0:00:49- CHEERING - You remember?
0:00:55 > 0:00:59Back in 1977, as a young BBC music presenter,
0:00:59 > 0:01:03I was asked to make a film about the band as they recorded and toured
0:01:03 > 0:01:06their sixth album, News Of The World.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08Bob and Freddie, take seven.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10That film was never put together,
0:01:10 > 0:01:13but now to mark the album's 40th anniversary,
0:01:13 > 0:01:17we've uncovered and restored this long-lost footage.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19I'll have to sing it, go on, and again.
0:01:19 > 0:01:23The News Of The World tour was to be Queen's most ambitious yet,
0:01:23 > 0:01:28playing 26 concerts across North America in just six weeks.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32I was wondering, what targets do you have left to achieve?
0:01:32 > 0:01:33Number one album in America.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37We were given unprecedented behind-the-scenes access.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39Oh, you've caught me in a good mood!
0:01:39 > 0:01:43I'd watched the band grow over the previous few years,
0:01:43 > 0:01:47topping the UK charts and playing every conceivable venue.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51They rocked Britain, but could they rock the world?
0:01:51 > 0:01:56# We will, we will rock you... #
0:01:59 > 0:02:05By 1977, Queen were a successful headliner act with a loyal fan base.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08MUSIC: Somebody To Love
0:02:10 > 0:02:14Their two most recent albums were a tour de force of multi-part harmonies and
0:02:14 > 0:02:16technical complexity,
0:02:16 > 0:02:21which required unprecedented recording time in the studio.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24# But I just can't get no relief
0:02:24 > 0:02:25# Lord, somebody
0:02:25 > 0:02:26#Somebody
0:02:26 > 0:02:27# Somebody
0:02:27 > 0:02:28#Somebody
0:02:28 > 0:02:29# Can anybody find me...? #
0:02:29 > 0:02:31Despite achieving a number of hits,
0:02:31 > 0:02:35they were battling an increasingly hostile press.
0:02:39 > 0:02:43And dealing with the music scene that was being altered by the arrival of punk.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53The whole punk movement was said to be a reaction against
0:02:53 > 0:02:57people like us, you know, who had raised their art to a high point.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01I thought when we went into News Of The World, you know,
0:03:01 > 0:03:04we couldn't reinvent ourselves as a punk band.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06But we wanted it a little bit more
0:03:06 > 0:03:09simple because we thought maybe these really grandiose things
0:03:09 > 0:03:11weren't really quite what was happening then,
0:03:11 > 0:03:14and to be more of the time, I guess.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16We made a more straightforward record.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19It was just that we had gone as far as we possibly could into this sort
0:03:19 > 0:03:24of baroque, complex, incredibly elaborate arrangements stuff, and we thought,
0:03:24 > 0:03:27well, it would be fun to go back to the way we used to play when we first
0:03:27 > 0:03:31started. Which would be quite simple, guitar, bass
0:03:31 > 0:03:33and drums and vocals as well.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35I really like News Of The World.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37It's one of my favourites, I think.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42And of course, it had two monster singles on it,
0:03:42 > 0:03:44We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47We always thought of them as a pair.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions
0:03:49 > 0:03:51had a very sort of definite genesis.
0:03:51 > 0:03:55We played this great hall in the Midlands, and it was packed,
0:03:55 > 0:03:57it was heaving. You know, those gigs that you love.
0:03:57 > 0:03:58It's all sweaty and hot.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00The atmosphere is great. Everybody's in it.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03Everybody's jumping up and down, making a noise.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05And what they were doing was singing along.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09They didn't stop. They sang every note of every song.
0:04:10 > 0:04:14And when we went offstage, they sang You'll Never Walk Alone to us.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18Now, in those days, it was really new, I have to tell you.
0:04:18 > 0:04:22You just didn't go to concerts where people sang to rock bands.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25So we went home that night thinking, "What do we do here?
0:04:25 > 0:04:28"What does this mean? What does this mean for our future?"
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Obviously the audience is as big a part of the show as we are now.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33So let's embrace it.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36What can an audience do? What could you ask them to do?
0:04:36 > 0:04:38They're all crammed in there, they can't do much, you know,
0:04:38 > 0:04:42but they can stamp their feet and they can clap their hands and they can sing.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45And they would be leading the song rather than the singer.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47So I woke up with We Will Rock You in my head.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52MUSIC: We Will Rock You
0:04:52 > 0:04:56I sang the song to Freddie and he went, "Yeah.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59"It's going to work." He twigged that it was a kind of rallying song.
0:04:59 > 0:05:00# Buddy, you're a boy
0:05:00 > 0:05:02# Make a big noise playing in the street
0:05:02 > 0:05:04# Gonna be a big man someday
0:05:04 > 0:05:06# You got mud on your face
0:05:06 > 0:05:07# You big disgrace
0:05:07 > 0:05:10# Kickin' your can all over the place
0:05:10 > 0:05:12# Singin' we will, we will... #
0:05:12 > 0:05:15In my head, it was a song of the three Ages of Man.
0:05:15 > 0:05:19The first age is the boy who thinks he can change the world.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22The second stage is the man who thinks he is changing the world.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25# Buddy, you're a young man, hard man shouting in the street
0:05:25 > 0:05:28# Gonna take on the world someday
0:05:28 > 0:05:29# You got blood on your face
0:05:29 > 0:05:31# A big disgrace
0:05:31 > 0:05:34# Waving your banner all over the place... #
0:05:34 > 0:05:38And the third stage is the old man coming to terms with the fact that
0:05:38 > 0:05:40there's only a certain amount he can do.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43It's like the serenity prayer, you know, change what you can change,
0:05:43 > 0:05:46but get used to it that you can't achieve everything.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48# Buddy, you're an old man
0:05:48 > 0:05:49# Poor man pleadin' with your eyes
0:05:49 > 0:05:52# Gonna make you some peace someday
0:05:52 > 0:05:53# You got mud on your face
0:05:53 > 0:05:54# Big disgrace
0:05:54 > 0:05:57# Somebody better put you back into your place
0:05:57 > 0:06:02# We will, we will rock you... #
0:06:02 > 0:06:04Sing it!
0:06:04 > 0:06:06So I came up with We Will Rock You,
0:06:06 > 0:06:09and Freddie came up with We Are The Champions.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15Do you enjoy record production, Fred?
0:06:15 > 0:06:17Do you enjoy working in the studio?
0:06:17 > 0:06:22Erm, yes. You can get sick of it, though.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24Especially now.
0:06:24 > 0:06:28We've decided that on our albums,
0:06:28 > 0:06:32we wouldn't spend as much time as we've done in the past.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Because I just think that,
0:06:35 > 0:06:39especially with News Of The World,
0:06:39 > 0:06:43I think we actually did decide before we went in that it was going to be a short album.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45As far as Queen standards are concerned.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48So that was like two months instead of four.
0:06:48 > 0:06:52We had something like a week and a half to two weeks to actually write all the material.
0:06:52 > 0:06:56And it was nice. We didn't fall into this thing of it being over-ripe
0:06:56 > 0:06:58before we actually recorded it.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11A Day At The Races, we spent five or
0:07:11 > 0:07:13six months in the studio, and very long hours.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16So, just physically, you couldn't be in the studio all the time.
0:07:16 > 0:07:20News Of The World leads back to a more spontaneous
0:07:20 > 0:07:22kind of creation of an album.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24Because of the nature of the way that we did it,
0:07:24 > 0:07:27we were all in the studio at the same time for an amount of the time.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30And it was more of a group thing than perhaps A Day At The Races was.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34It was easy, because it was so simple.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37After what we'd been doing, learning the stuff on News Of The World,
0:07:37 > 0:07:41it was almost de rigueur to do it quick because you didn't want to mess
0:07:41 > 0:07:44around with it too much. You didn't want to polish it too much,
0:07:44 > 0:07:45you wanted to keep the rawness there.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48MUSIC: We Are The Champions (backing track)
0:09:01 > 0:09:05# We are the champions
0:09:05 > 0:09:08# We are the champions
0:09:08 > 0:09:10# No time for losers... #
0:09:10 > 0:09:13Especially a group in our stage of career
0:09:13 > 0:09:16can fall into the trap where we can have as much time as we want in the
0:09:16 > 0:09:18studio. And you can just go and say, "Look,
0:09:18 > 0:09:20"I'd like to try another area of this."
0:09:20 > 0:09:24But now I think it's up to us to decide, from the very onset,
0:09:24 > 0:09:27that this is the decision, this is what we're going to arrive at,
0:09:27 > 0:09:30before we got there. And we were going to say, "OK, this is it."
0:09:30 > 0:09:32And I feel I did that.
0:09:32 > 0:09:36I mean, OK, I could forever go around saying that I could have done, say, We Are The Champions
0:09:36 > 0:09:40a bit better. But I think I quite actually liked saying, "Look,
0:09:40 > 0:09:42"I've made my sort of decision now.
0:09:42 > 0:09:46"And we're going to stick to it." And it's worked out pretty well.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59That was a lovely feel. That's exactly how it should be.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01- Can I have another cup of coffee? Sorry.- Sounding quite nice.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04OK, cup of coffee coming, anybody else want anything?
0:10:04 > 0:10:06Yes, please, I'll have a cup.
0:10:06 > 0:10:07I'll have a cup with one sugar, please.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11Right, that's three coffees, with one sugar, one of them.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14One and three-sevenths sugars, please.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16Three sugars?
0:10:16 > 0:10:18- No, one and three-sevenths. - Seven sugars?
0:10:18 > 0:10:19One and three-sevenths!
0:10:19 > 0:10:21Is this on?
0:10:21 > 0:10:23Test, test. Knock, knock. Hello?
0:10:23 > 0:10:24DRUMS PLAY
0:10:43 > 0:10:46- Think we got a hundred... - That's better.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49How does the studio situation work, Freddie?
0:10:49 > 0:10:53- You mean, amongst us?- Yes.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55- Between us?- Yeah.- If I write a song,
0:10:55 > 0:10:59and I sort of take it upon myself from the actual writing stages
0:10:59 > 0:11:02to the rehearsing, to the routining, and to the recording,
0:11:02 > 0:11:05as being my project, so I sort of handle that.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08With my kind of songs, I seem I sort of, more or less,
0:11:08 > 0:11:10have everything rehearsed.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12I mean, everything sort of written out.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14# I've taken my bows
0:11:14 > 0:11:17# And my curtain calls... #
0:11:19 > 0:11:21It's still repeating.
0:11:21 > 0:11:22# You brought me fame and fortune
0:11:22 > 0:11:24# And everything that goes with it... #
0:11:24 > 0:11:27- I want it on a pan. - What, the echo, yeah?
0:11:27 > 0:11:29- So that I can...- Yeah, yeah. It will be.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32He had a vision and he was
0:11:32 > 0:11:35very driven and he was very good on the desk, you know?
0:11:35 > 0:11:40And very good moving the faders, balancing the harmonies and getting the things
0:11:40 > 0:11:43to do what he wanted. But then we would pitch in with each other's songs,
0:11:43 > 0:11:46and then sometimes we'd all get together to mix it.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49When did you begin to get to a stage where you felt, between you,
0:11:49 > 0:11:52that you could take over the desk yourselves completely?
0:11:52 > 0:11:56It comes to a stage where all you really need is an engineer, really,
0:11:56 > 0:12:00because the idea of balancing sounds you want, you know, it's...
0:12:00 > 0:12:04An artist or musician should really know what they want, you know?
0:12:04 > 0:12:07And the only person needed to implement that is an engineer,
0:12:07 > 0:12:10really, in a way. And when you're doing a mix, you know,
0:12:10 > 0:12:13and you're mixing down the track from the tapes.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15I mean, it's setting it up.
0:12:15 > 0:12:19And then we actually sit down and work the controls as well, you know...
0:12:19 > 0:12:22- Yeah.- Can you remember which vocals, which solos we used?
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Well, if I hear, then I'll know.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Because here, we've got three tracks, four tracks of vocals.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31One with a solo guitar and then that's got "end bit solo".
0:12:31 > 0:12:34Well, listen to them, darling, that's the only way we can do it.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42- That's your writing, isn't it, that one?- No, it's all, it's all...
0:12:42 > 0:12:44..Mike's.
0:12:44 > 0:12:48- What are you doing now?- I'm just going to get a rough balance, OK? - OK.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54MUSIC PLAYS
0:13:19 > 0:13:22There must be more than this.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25- Must be more what?- Oh, that's the one, I think.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28There are two guitars.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37- Yeah.- But there's two guitars.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39One crosses over.
0:13:39 > 0:13:40Right...
0:13:40 > 0:13:42- Do you remember?- Yes, I remember.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45That one is... Go back to the other place and we'll find out.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48- Just the last chorus of the note? - See if you could use...
0:13:48 > 0:13:51- Do you want to do a guitar or something?- I suppose we could.
0:13:51 > 0:13:52It would sound different.
0:13:52 > 0:13:56Do you want to do a guitar bit in there, squeeze it in?
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Work out your guitar so you can mix...
0:13:59 > 0:14:01Roger, do you want to come in here and just do...
0:14:01 > 0:14:03- The kit?- Yeah.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:29 > 0:14:31More bass, please.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33- Erm...- Back to cylinders.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36What do you think for sounds? I mean, I think we should just...
0:14:36 > 0:14:38Yeah, it sounds all right to me.
0:14:38 > 0:14:43He's only done drum sounds at the moment.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46- That's right.- Oh, that's why it sounds all right to me.
0:14:48 > 0:14:49Let's open a bottle of wine.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52Yes, where is the screwdriver?
0:14:52 > 0:14:55Congratulations, you're number one on the Hit Line at the moment.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57How's that for loyalty?
0:14:57 > 0:15:00I think it's great. It's a very good instant reaction
0:15:00 > 0:15:02to what we put out.
0:15:02 > 0:15:06And only Queen could come up with the title, We Are The Champions.
0:15:06 > 0:15:07I mean, where's the modesty gone?
0:15:07 > 0:15:11Well, there isn't any. There's no modesty whatsoever.
0:15:11 > 0:15:16After the slaggings off that we get from the English music press, well, who cares?
0:15:16 > 0:15:18So we've got nothing to lose now.
0:15:18 > 0:15:22Because pulling We Are The Champions, off the new album,
0:15:22 > 0:15:25that seems to me to have thoughts and sentiments in it that you must've
0:15:25 > 0:15:28been wanting to express for some time.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32- Is that true?- Oh, I'm a cold, heartless bugger.
0:15:32 > 0:15:33No, it has absolutely nothing.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36It's just pure commercial, call it what you like.
0:15:36 > 0:15:40Can you go easy on the stage lights because they're so fucking hot?
0:15:41 > 0:15:44Oh, that's a bit better for now.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47It's the most egotistical and arrogant song I've ever written.
0:15:47 > 0:15:48Was it?
0:15:48 > 0:15:49HE BLOWS A RASPBERRY
0:15:49 > 0:15:53I was kind of quite shocked because I thought, "Are we really
0:15:53 > 0:15:56"going to stand up and say we are the champions as opposed to every other group
0:15:56 > 0:15:58"and every other person on the face of this Earth?"
0:15:58 > 0:16:01You know, and he says, "Actually that's not what it is."
0:16:01 > 0:16:03And he said rock and roll is the only place
0:16:03 > 0:16:06where everybody has a feeling of, like, being in a team,
0:16:06 > 0:16:08but you're not fighting anybody.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11- It'd work if you could dodge down a bit lower even still.- Oh, but...
0:16:11 > 0:16:14Then you can't see, there's no way you'll see the notes.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17- There's no way you will see them. - I can't...- It doesn't work, huh?
0:16:17 > 0:16:18Yeah.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20The only way is to put a sheet over my head.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Have you got a black card, or...?
0:16:22 > 0:16:24Or just a bit of black drape that we can put in front.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26- Black drape?- Yeah.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29Basically, it is a participation thing.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32I've been... I'm just thinking in terms of how
0:16:32 > 0:16:34maybe we're going to sort of adapt it on stage,
0:16:34 > 0:16:36and how people are going to...
0:16:36 > 0:16:37It's a public...
0:16:38 > 0:16:41- ..public/group thing, really. - Yeah.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44We're going to be finishing off filming for We Are The Champions,
0:16:44 > 0:16:48which, of course, you know is the new single from the band, yeah?
0:16:48 > 0:16:50I don't know whether you've heard it, first of all.
0:16:50 > 0:16:51Have you heard it on the radio?
0:16:51 > 0:16:52AUDIENCE CHEERS
0:16:53 > 0:16:57I understand it's number two on the Hit Line on Capital Radio tonight...
0:16:57 > 0:16:59AUDIENCE CHEERS
0:17:03 > 0:17:08We'd like your involvement, if you would, towards the end,
0:17:08 > 0:17:12because if you've got any banners that you can wave towards the end...
0:17:12 > 0:17:15Hundreds, hundreds. I knew it.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19Get those out, shout and scream and sing with the band.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25# It's been no bed of roses
0:17:26 > 0:17:28# No pleasure cruise
0:17:30 > 0:17:33# I consider it a challenge before the whole human race
0:17:33 > 0:17:36# And I ain't gonna lose
0:17:36 > 0:17:40# And I mean to go on and on and on and on
0:17:40 > 0:17:46# We are the champions, my friends
0:17:48 > 0:17:54# And we'll keep on fighting till the end
0:17:56 > 0:18:00# We are the champions
0:18:00 > 0:18:03# We are the champions
0:18:03 > 0:18:06# No time for losers
0:18:06 > 0:18:14# Cos we are the champions of the world
0:18:14 > 0:18:18# We are the champions, my friends
0:18:20 > 0:18:25# And we'll keep on fighting till the end
0:18:27 > 0:18:31# Oh, we are the champions
0:18:31 > 0:18:35# We are the champions
0:18:35 > 0:18:38# No time for losers
0:18:38 > 0:18:43# Cos we are the champions... #
0:18:45 > 0:18:48I think Queen fans will be surprised
0:18:48 > 0:18:51because it's far more kind of raw than any other album,
0:18:51 > 0:18:53and also shorter tracks.
0:18:53 > 0:18:57I'm glad you said raw, cos that was exactly, really, what we wanted.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59OK, are you ready to rock 'n' roll?
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Most of that album is quite stripped down.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05There isn't a Bohemian Rhapsody on that album.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07It's very powerful, it's very raw.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10So, in a sense, we went a little bit sort of punky ourselves, I suppose.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12You get involved in quite a lot of music outside of the band,
0:19:12 > 0:19:14and outside of the band's style, don't you?
0:19:14 > 0:19:17I mean, I remember you talking really in the very early days,
0:19:17 > 0:19:18for example, about The Sex Pistols.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20If you hear something that's...
0:19:20 > 0:19:23..or hear of something that's exciting... There's simply so few.
0:19:23 > 0:19:28# Well, you're just 17 and all you wanna do is disappear
0:19:29 > 0:19:33# You know what I mean - there's a lot of space between your ears
0:19:33 > 0:19:35# The way that you touch... #
0:19:35 > 0:19:37Roger was much more aware than the rest of us.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39He kept in touch with what was going on around him.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41I remember him talking about The Sex Pistols very early on
0:19:41 > 0:19:43and getting excited about it.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45I thought, you know, "This is so fresh,"
0:19:45 > 0:19:48and I thought we needed a little bit of that kind of sensibility.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51Sheer Heart Attack, which is a song of Roger's
0:19:51 > 0:19:53which he'd been trying to get on an album at that time,
0:19:53 > 0:19:55we thought, "Oh, it makes sense in this context."
0:19:55 > 0:19:57Something simple and energetic.
0:19:57 > 0:20:03# Sheer heart attack... #
0:20:03 > 0:20:06It was sort of written a few years before,
0:20:06 > 0:20:08and I thought, "This fits perfectly,
0:20:08 > 0:20:10"this really fits in with what we're trying to do now,"
0:20:10 > 0:20:12so we put it on that album -
0:20:12 > 0:20:14and it became a live staple.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Murder to play on stage, it's so fast.
0:20:18 > 0:20:23# I feel so inar, inar, inar, inar inar, inar...
0:20:23 > 0:20:29# ..inar, inar, inar, inar inarticulate. #
0:20:29 > 0:20:31We were making this album in north London,
0:20:31 > 0:20:34and in another studio just nearby was this young group
0:20:34 > 0:20:35called The Sex Pistols.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37We were literally next door for months.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39Sid Vicious came in.
0:20:39 > 0:20:40Sid was a moron, you know?
0:20:40 > 0:20:42He was an idiot.
0:20:42 > 0:20:43Fred played him a few things.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45He played him Sheer Heart Attack, actually.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47I think he said, "It sounds like The Cortinas."
0:20:47 > 0:20:49And there was the moment when Sid said,
0:20:49 > 0:20:52"Are you bringing ballet to the masses, then?"
0:20:52 > 0:20:57Fred just said, "Oh, Mr Ferocious, we're trying our best, dear."
0:20:58 > 0:21:02# Do you know, do you know, do you know just how I feel?
0:21:03 > 0:21:08# Do you know, do you know, do you know just how I feel?
0:21:08 > 0:21:14# Sheer heart attack
0:21:14 > 0:21:22# Sheer cardiac... #
0:21:22 > 0:21:24How are the rehearsals going, Brian?
0:21:24 > 0:21:27Very well up to now, up to the usual standard, I think.
0:21:27 > 0:21:31Which is usually slow up to the last minute, and then panic.
0:21:31 > 0:21:32But it's going OK.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34How much time have you put aside this time?
0:21:34 > 0:21:39We have a full week here in Shepperton, where we are now.
0:21:39 > 0:21:43Um... Which is without the PA, but we have the monitors,
0:21:43 > 0:21:46so our stage environment is more or less as it will be,
0:21:46 > 0:21:50and we have a mock-up of how the lights will be...
0:21:51 > 0:21:54..and then the stuff is dismantled and goes to the States,
0:21:54 > 0:21:56and we follow it out a week later,
0:21:56 > 0:21:59and then we have three or four days with everything,
0:21:59 > 0:22:02- and with John working the PA and everything.- Mm.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05How much of News Of The World are you going to do this time?
0:22:05 > 0:22:07News Of The World will feature heavily.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10Partly because it's easy to do.
0:22:10 > 0:22:14Most of the stuff is fairly simple in terms of instrumentation...
0:22:16 > 0:22:20..and it was built around stuff which is easy to do on stage,
0:22:20 > 0:22:23which really is the first time we've done that since the first album.
0:22:23 > 0:22:24So there'll be a lot of it.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27We've already been through five or six numbers off the new album.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50It must be interesting finding that exact balance
0:22:50 > 0:22:53between new material and old material, too, Brian.
0:22:53 > 0:22:54Definitely, yes.
0:22:55 > 0:22:59Cos a lot of people come to see a show for the familiar things...
0:23:00 > 0:23:04..and always at the end of any artist's show, generally,
0:23:04 > 0:23:05when he starts doing the old stuff,
0:23:05 > 0:23:08people respond in a completely different way.
0:23:09 > 0:23:10Um... So you have, as you say,
0:23:10 > 0:23:12you have to strike the balance
0:23:12 > 0:23:15between doing the things which people want to hear
0:23:15 > 0:23:18and doing the things which you think you ought to be introducing them to.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Strangely enough, the things that people notice most
0:23:20 > 0:23:21are the beginning and the end.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24- I think it starts getting too much. - It's the start they've come to see.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26They want to see what we're going to do.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28This is a new show.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30This is something... What are we going to perform?
0:23:30 > 0:23:33- I think it worked great as an encore.- I think we should do it,
0:23:33 > 0:23:37but the whole thing with We Will Rock You is stating that...
0:23:37 > 0:23:39- Do you see what I mean?- Yeah.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41There's no point saying, "We will rock you,"
0:23:41 > 0:23:44after we've rocked them all night long at the end of the show.
0:23:44 > 0:23:45Yeah.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47MUSIC: We Will Rock You
0:23:52 > 0:23:54We love designing these sort of dramatic openings,
0:23:54 > 0:23:57and particularly, the beginning and the end of a show,
0:23:57 > 0:23:59there's a great opportunity to do something special,
0:23:59 > 0:24:02and We Will Rock You, I think, in my head,
0:24:02 > 0:24:04was partly conceived as an opener, anyway.
0:24:04 > 0:24:05I thought, "Wouldn't that be great
0:24:05 > 0:24:08"just to start off with this very stark stamping and clapping?
0:24:08 > 0:24:10"It'll be like the audience is starting the show."
0:24:10 > 0:24:14# We will, we will rock you
0:24:14 > 0:24:18# We will, we will rock you... #
0:24:18 > 0:24:22So Freddie would go out and do his thing, all on his own, you know. Hero.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24# Buddy, you're a boy, make a big noise
0:24:24 > 0:24:27# Playin' in the street, gonna be a big man someday
0:24:27 > 0:24:29# Mud on your face
0:24:29 > 0:24:30# Big disgrace
0:24:30 > 0:24:33# Kickin' your can all over the place
0:24:33 > 0:24:37- # We will, we will rock you - Yes, sir
0:24:37 > 0:24:42# We will, we will rock you
0:24:42 > 0:24:44# All right
0:24:44 > 0:24:50- # We will, we will rock you - Yes, sir
0:24:50 > 0:24:53# We will, we will rock you... #
0:24:53 > 0:24:56And I would go out on the other side, do the guitar solo, hero.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19But then it's like, "What do we play now?"
0:25:19 > 0:25:22You know, when we get to the end of the guitar solo, what happens?
0:25:34 > 0:25:36There's this huge kind of anticipation
0:25:36 > 0:25:37at the beginning of a show.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39You've got to be high energy,
0:25:39 > 0:25:41you've got to fulfil that kind of expectation -
0:25:41 > 0:25:43and on the record, you go into We Are The Champions,
0:25:43 > 0:25:45but that wouldn't be right,
0:25:45 > 0:25:48because We Are The Champions really cries out to be the end of a show.
0:25:48 > 0:25:49So we thought, "What do we do here?"
0:25:49 > 0:25:52And for some reason, I thought, "Well, a fast version
0:25:52 > 0:25:54"of We Will Rock You would be really interesting."
0:26:03 > 0:26:05# Ooh, yeah... #
0:26:08 > 0:26:10And it was very effective.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12It was just all very simple, very high energy,
0:26:12 > 0:26:15and the audience could kind of bang their heads and get into it
0:26:15 > 0:26:18and feel that their energy was being harnessed.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22# Buddy, you're a boy, make a big noise
0:26:22 > 0:26:25# Playin' in the street, gonna be a big man someday
0:26:25 > 0:26:26# Got mud on your face
0:26:26 > 0:26:28# Big disgrace
0:26:28 > 0:26:31# Kickin' your can all over the place
0:26:31 > 0:26:35# We will, we will rock you
0:26:35 > 0:26:37# Tonight
0:26:37 > 0:26:40# We will, we will rock you
0:26:40 > 0:26:42# Buddy, you're a young man, hard man
0:26:42 > 0:26:46# Shoutin' in the street, gonna take on the world someday
0:26:46 > 0:26:47# Got mud on your face
0:26:47 > 0:26:49# Big disgrace
0:26:49 > 0:26:52# Wavin' your banner all over the place
0:26:52 > 0:26:56# We will, we will rock you
0:26:58 > 0:27:03# We will, we will rock
0:27:27 > 0:27:29# Oh, yeah
0:27:42 > 0:27:47# We will, we will rock you
0:27:49 > 0:27:52# We will, we will rock
0:27:52 > 0:27:54# Buddy, you're an old man, poor man
0:27:54 > 0:27:58# Pleadin' with your eyes, gonna get you some peace someday
0:27:58 > 0:28:00# Got mud on your face
0:28:00 > 0:28:01# Big disgrace
0:28:01 > 0:28:04# Somebody better put you back into your place
0:28:04 > 0:28:09# We will, we will rock you
0:28:10 > 0:28:15# We will, we will rock you
0:28:15 > 0:28:17# Rock you, rock you, rock you
0:28:17 > 0:28:20# We will, we will rock... #
0:28:41 > 0:28:43AUDIENCE CHEERS
0:28:48 > 0:28:49America's great.
0:28:49 > 0:28:53You feel like America is the centre of rock music, somehow.
0:28:53 > 0:28:57There's a real family which surrounds music in America.
0:28:57 > 0:28:59You go there and you feel that you're part of it.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07# You say you love me... #
0:29:08 > 0:29:12America was regarded as sort of the grail of the rock scene
0:29:12 > 0:29:14in those days, and, obviously,
0:29:14 > 0:29:17when you sort of smell success in America, you go for it.
0:29:17 > 0:29:19America was so geared up for rock and roll,
0:29:19 > 0:29:22much more so than any place else at that time.
0:29:22 > 0:29:27It had an amazing, thriving community which we plugged into,
0:29:27 > 0:29:30and, in a sense, we created our audience,
0:29:30 > 0:29:33but in a sense, they created us.
0:29:33 > 0:29:35They're a very formative influence on us.
0:29:35 > 0:29:37And it was a riot, it was amazing.
0:29:37 > 0:29:41The energy that would be in those American halls was outstanding.
0:29:41 > 0:29:44I think we grew up on those American tours as a band,
0:29:44 > 0:29:48and you start to think of yourself as artists, in a sense.
0:29:48 > 0:29:51# It's late
0:29:51 > 0:29:53# But I'm bleeding deep inside
0:29:53 > 0:29:55# It's late
0:29:55 > 0:29:59# Is it just my sickly pride?
0:29:59 > 0:30:00# Too late
0:30:00 > 0:30:04# Even now the feeling seems to steal away
0:30:04 > 0:30:05# So late
0:30:05 > 0:30:09# Though I'm crying I can't help but hear you say
0:30:09 > 0:30:13# It's late, it's late, it's late
0:30:13 > 0:30:16# But not too late
0:30:22 > 0:30:25# Mm, yeah
0:30:25 > 0:30:28# The way you love me
0:30:29 > 0:30:32# Is the sweetest love around
0:30:35 > 0:30:39# But after all this time
0:30:39 > 0:30:41# The more I'm trying
0:30:41 > 0:30:44# The more I seem to let you down... #
0:30:45 > 0:30:48Are you going to make sure that the whole...
0:30:48 > 0:30:51..all the lights... all these gaps are filled?
0:30:51 > 0:30:52Oh, yeah.
0:30:52 > 0:30:56You must aim for maximum effect, both aurally and visually.
0:30:56 > 0:30:59We're just trying to put out the music and the visual aspect
0:30:59 > 0:31:02as effectively as we can to as many people as we can.
0:31:04 > 0:31:06We think it should be a real event every time we play.
0:31:06 > 0:31:09People are paying money to come and see you...
0:31:09 > 0:31:11As far as we're concerned, we're putting on a show.
0:31:11 > 0:31:13It's not just another rendition of an album.
0:31:13 > 0:31:15If that was the case, we might as well just have
0:31:15 > 0:31:17sort of cardboard cut-outs and just play the album.
0:31:17 > 0:31:19# It's late
0:31:20 > 0:31:23# But it's driving me so mad
0:31:23 > 0:31:24# It's late
0:31:24 > 0:31:28# Yes, I know but don't try to tell me that...
0:31:28 > 0:31:29# It's too late
0:31:29 > 0:31:33# Save our love, you can't turn out the lights
0:31:33 > 0:31:34# So late
0:31:34 > 0:31:38# I've been wrong but I'll learn to be right
0:31:38 > 0:31:45# It's late, it's late, it's late, it's late, it's late
0:31:45 > 0:31:51# It's late, it's late
0:31:52 > 0:31:55# It's all too late
0:32:00 > 0:32:02# Oh, let's do it
0:32:02 > 0:32:04# Right on!
0:32:05 > 0:32:09# Mm, late, oh, late
0:32:09 > 0:32:11# Oh, yeah
0:32:12 > 0:32:17# Whoo! #
0:32:27 > 0:32:30I had to tell everyone to go home, cos he stayed standing there.
0:32:30 > 0:32:32I know! I didn't realise he was playing!
0:32:33 > 0:32:35Oh, blood, blood, sue the management!
0:32:35 > 0:32:37We are! I bled, as well.
0:32:37 > 0:32:38Shit!
0:32:39 > 0:32:41I haven't got that blood.
0:32:41 > 0:32:43Peter, sue the management!
0:32:48 > 0:32:50Get off my trousers.
0:32:50 > 0:32:51Fucking get out!
0:32:53 > 0:32:55We did stay pretty connected.
0:32:55 > 0:32:57Generally, we sort of found a big place
0:32:57 > 0:32:59where we could get ready together,
0:32:59 > 0:33:02and we would kind of joke around and talk about stuff.
0:33:02 > 0:33:06So we had a good kind of camaraderie, which kept us alive.
0:33:06 > 0:33:09- Arnold! Sorry...- Oh, my God...
0:33:12 > 0:33:14Oh, shit, I threw my whistle away, actually.
0:33:14 > 0:33:16HE PLAYS WHISTLE
0:33:19 > 0:33:21I bet you can't blow 'em like that.
0:33:21 > 0:33:23I hesitated, actually, I did, and I thought - I threw it.
0:33:23 > 0:33:26I thought, "I've thrown it, should I ask for it back?"
0:33:26 > 0:33:27I want it back.
0:33:27 > 0:33:31You threw my best fucking pair of maracas away the first day.
0:33:31 > 0:33:32Great-sounding maracas!
0:33:32 > 0:33:35I mean, it took me hours to steal them.
0:33:36 > 0:33:38Now they know I'm going to throw those things...
0:33:38 > 0:33:39He just goes...
0:33:40 > 0:33:42Actually, they were wonderful, I must say, I'm sorry.
0:33:42 > 0:33:45Now they know I'm going to throw them in the audience,
0:33:45 > 0:33:46they give me these horrible things
0:33:46 > 0:33:49with about two peas inside, you know?
0:33:49 > 0:33:50They just rattle, rattle, rattle.
0:33:50 > 0:33:52I feel such a berk, going...
0:33:52 > 0:33:54Nothing happening. So I just throw it away.
0:33:54 > 0:33:55Lovely colours, as well.
0:33:55 > 0:33:57Lovely colours, lovely kitsch colours.
0:33:57 > 0:33:59Real height of bad taste.
0:33:59 > 0:34:01Really?
0:34:01 > 0:34:03You could throw me in the audience!
0:34:03 > 0:34:05Don't give him ideas.
0:34:05 > 0:34:08You don't rattle as good.
0:34:08 > 0:34:11Are you happy with the response on the tour so far?
0:34:11 > 0:34:13- Very much so, I think.- Yes.
0:34:13 > 0:34:15See, I think it's worth pointing out, really,
0:34:15 > 0:34:17that it's the most successful tour on the road right now.
0:34:17 > 0:34:19- Isn't it?- If you say so, it is.
0:34:21 > 0:34:22It is.
0:34:22 > 0:34:26- We wouldn't want to keep abreast of it, but, yes.- Yes, it is.
0:34:26 > 0:34:30There's a lot of competition around. I mean, there is...
0:34:30 > 0:34:33- How many groups on the road? - Well, I don't know.
0:34:33 > 0:34:37Of the sort of halls we're playing, no more than half a dozen.
0:34:37 > 0:34:39But people here are just geared to going to...
0:34:39 > 0:34:41..to actually seeing so many rock concerts
0:34:41 > 0:34:44that, I mean, it's kind of a way of life, really, isn't it?
0:34:44 > 0:34:47Particularly what strikes me on this tour
0:34:47 > 0:34:50is how well put together the stage is, how well designed it is,
0:34:50 > 0:34:53and how well the stage show works.
0:34:53 > 0:34:56Can you describe the opening and how you got the idea for it, Freddie?
0:34:57 > 0:34:59- How did I get the idea for it? - What do you mean,
0:34:59 > 0:35:01how HE got the idea for it?!
0:35:01 > 0:35:04I don't know, usually, I just kind of...
0:35:04 > 0:35:07How did it start? Somebody comes up with an idea
0:35:07 > 0:35:09and it's immediately rejected -
0:35:09 > 0:35:11but it kind of sort of seeps in after a while,
0:35:11 > 0:35:14- once it's kind of thrown about.- They want to get a row on film, you see.
0:35:14 > 0:35:16Oh, they want to get a row - you should've been there yest...
0:35:16 > 0:35:19Well, you were there yesterday, but the cameras weren't rolling.
0:35:19 > 0:35:21I'm playing what I always play.
0:35:22 > 0:35:24I'm playing exactly what is on the record, Fred.
0:35:24 > 0:35:27- Did you slow down? - Oh, fuck slowing down.
0:35:27 > 0:35:29- Did he slow down? - That's hardly the point.
0:35:29 > 0:35:33Give us a bit more tea, and we might try and join in with you.
0:35:33 > 0:35:36Well, you're expecting all of us to be perfect
0:35:36 > 0:35:38before you even attempt to do anything.
0:35:38 > 0:35:39Oh, don't be so fucking ridiculous.
0:35:43 > 0:35:44Don't take it down.
0:35:44 > 0:35:46That's all right.
0:35:46 > 0:35:47That's all right.
0:35:47 > 0:35:49It's not coming out on mine.
0:35:49 > 0:35:50I want to hear it.
0:35:50 > 0:35:52I hear we split up last week,
0:35:52 > 0:35:54according to the NME or something.
0:35:54 > 0:35:56Actually, we must develop that.
0:35:56 > 0:35:58Just to a point.
0:35:58 > 0:36:01How did that develop, those rumours?
0:36:01 > 0:36:02Oh, it's...
0:36:03 > 0:36:05It's so...
0:36:06 > 0:36:08A lot of trivia, it's not even worth talking about.
0:36:08 > 0:36:11Was there any basis in fact for that speculation at all?
0:36:11 > 0:36:13Not as far as I know, really.
0:36:13 > 0:36:14Breaking up, when we're doing so well?
0:36:14 > 0:36:16- Yeah.- You must be kidding.
0:36:16 > 0:36:21I think the most important thing is, for a band - basically, it has to be good,
0:36:21 > 0:36:24and it also has to stick together, I think,
0:36:24 > 0:36:26and know each other backwards.
0:36:26 > 0:36:29You know, you've almost got to know what the other person is thinking.
0:36:29 > 0:36:30A band has to stick together
0:36:30 > 0:36:33until there's no longer any point in them sticking together,
0:36:33 > 0:36:34if you see what I mean.
0:36:34 > 0:36:36But mind you, when it is all over
0:36:36 > 0:36:38and there's not really much coming out of it any more,
0:36:38 > 0:36:40you've got to quit then, I think.
0:36:40 > 0:36:42I'm sure we will when that happens.
0:36:42 > 0:36:45Should we do something out front?
0:36:45 > 0:36:48See if the fucking monitor's working.
0:36:48 > 0:36:53We did, in a sense, become a little less cohesive, I suppose.
0:36:53 > 0:36:57But I think the great thing for us was that we always did soundchecks.
0:36:57 > 0:36:59We did long soundchecks every day -
0:36:59 > 0:37:02and so much happened in the soundchecks.
0:37:02 > 0:37:06We would talk to each other, look at each other, discuss things.
0:37:06 > 0:37:08We'd figure out what was good about last night,
0:37:08 > 0:37:09what wasn't good about last night,
0:37:09 > 0:37:11and you know, "Let's try this.
0:37:11 > 0:37:13"Let's see if we can get this song together,"
0:37:13 > 0:37:15and try out things, and have a bit of fun.
0:37:16 > 0:37:18It's a kind of dedication, really,
0:37:18 > 0:37:20but, boy, it pays off!
0:37:20 > 0:37:24So I think that saved us from getting fragmented and disconnected.
0:37:24 > 0:37:25# Get your party gown
0:37:25 > 0:37:27# Get your pigtail down
0:37:27 > 0:37:30# Get your heart beatin', baby
0:37:30 > 0:37:32# Get your timin' right
0:37:32 > 0:37:34# Get your act all tight
0:37:34 > 0:37:37# It's gotta be tonight, my little schoolbabe
0:37:37 > 0:37:39# Momma says you don't
0:37:39 > 0:37:41# Daddy says you won't
0:37:41 > 0:37:43# And I'm boilin' up inside
0:37:43 > 0:37:45# No way I'm gonna lose out this time
0:37:51 > 0:37:53# Tie your mother down
0:37:53 > 0:37:55# Tie your mother down
0:37:55 > 0:37:56# Lock your daddy out of doors
0:37:56 > 0:37:58# I don't need him nosing around
0:37:58 > 0:38:00# Tie your mother down
0:38:00 > 0:38:01# Tie your mother down... #
0:38:12 > 0:38:14Just try and give me a touch more vocal.
0:38:19 > 0:38:22One, two. One, two, one, two.
0:38:22 > 0:38:25# Sammy was low
0:38:25 > 0:38:27# Just watching the show
0:38:27 > 0:38:31# Over and over again... #
0:38:32 > 0:38:35One, two, one, two.
0:38:35 > 0:38:38# Sammy was low
0:38:38 > 0:38:40# Just watching the show
0:38:41 > 0:38:46# Over and over again
0:38:46 > 0:38:49# Knew it was time
0:38:49 > 0:38:51# He'd made up his mind
0:38:51 > 0:38:55# To leave his dead life behind
0:38:57 > 0:38:59# His boss said to him
0:38:59 > 0:39:02# Boy, you'd better begin
0:39:02 > 0:39:08# To get those crazy notions right out of your head
0:39:08 > 0:39:14# Sammy, who do you think that you are?
0:39:14 > 0:39:21# You should've been sweeping up the Emerald Bar
0:39:22 > 0:39:28# Spread your wings and fly away
0:39:28 > 0:39:32# Fly away, far away
0:39:32 > 0:39:36# Spread your little wings and fly away... #
0:39:36 > 0:39:38If, individually, you went off -
0:39:38 > 0:39:40- I'm not talking about the band break-up at all.- Mm.
0:39:40 > 0:39:42- Oh, no!- If you made individual solo albums...
0:39:42 > 0:39:44- Yeah.- Oh, I'd make a lot of money!
0:39:44 > 0:39:45..and I'll ask you individually this -
0:39:45 > 0:39:47what sort of album would you make?
0:39:47 > 0:39:48- Rog?- No idea.
0:39:50 > 0:39:53I don't know yet. Haven't done it yet.
0:39:53 > 0:39:54Er, a good one.
0:39:54 > 0:39:58I'd like to make it naked and raw.
0:39:58 > 0:40:01- Fred?- I really haven't thought in those terms, really.
0:40:01 > 0:40:05I mean, probably my solo album would consist of me singing with Roger,
0:40:05 > 0:40:07Brian and John backing me!
0:40:07 > 0:40:10Most of the things that I want to do, I would want to use the group,
0:40:10 > 0:40:13cos that's partly - we sort of use each other, in a way,
0:40:13 > 0:40:17if we have ideas, and that is the big thing about a group,
0:40:17 > 0:40:18that you have a group of people
0:40:18 > 0:40:20who understand each other's ways of working
0:40:20 > 0:40:22and you can get the maximum out of each other.
0:40:22 > 0:40:26So there are things which, perhaps, at a particular time
0:40:26 > 0:40:29you don't want to do for the group, but mainly the group is the vehicle.
0:40:29 > 0:40:30- That's what I'm trying to say.- Yeah.
0:40:30 > 0:40:32And it's the best vehicle that we have.
0:40:32 > 0:40:35- John?- Um, I'd never do one, no.
0:40:35 > 0:40:36I can't sing!
0:40:39 > 0:40:41So how do each of you, then,
0:40:41 > 0:40:43musically pull the band in certain directions?
0:40:43 > 0:40:45I mean, I'm thinking of your songs, for example,
0:40:45 > 0:40:47which always strike me as being so melodic...
0:40:47 > 0:40:49- Yes.- ..John, and add that input into the...?
0:40:49 > 0:40:52Yes, yeah. Well, that just obviously comes from the type of songs
0:40:52 > 0:40:54that the individuals write,
0:40:54 > 0:40:56you know, I mean, because we are four...
0:40:56 > 0:40:58..you know, four individuals, really.
0:40:58 > 0:41:02I mean, we are quite different in our musical taste, as well.
0:41:02 > 0:41:05Mine tend to be slightly lighter.
0:41:05 > 0:41:08I don't think I could ever write a heavy song, you know?
0:41:08 > 0:41:10- It's, you know, it's not in me.- Mm.
0:41:10 > 0:41:12# Come on, honey
0:41:12 > 0:41:15# Come fly with me... #
0:41:24 > 0:41:26Oh, it's got an awful ridge on it.
0:41:26 > 0:41:28Is there another one?
0:41:29 > 0:41:31Ow, ow, ow.
0:41:32 > 0:41:34I've lost my shoe!
0:41:34 > 0:41:35Cinderella.
0:41:35 > 0:41:38I like to think that I can do different things.
0:41:38 > 0:41:40I mean, I don't like to just think, "OK, rock and roll,
0:41:40 > 0:41:42"so therefore I'm going to go up there,
0:41:42 > 0:41:43"put on my high-heeled shoes and play the songs."
0:41:43 > 0:41:46I like to think that we do so many different types of songs
0:41:46 > 0:41:48that then when we try and put them over
0:41:48 > 0:41:50they require a different format.
0:41:50 > 0:41:54And within that is a wide area.
0:41:54 > 0:41:57Why don't you do a nice picture of Roger's legs?
0:41:57 > 0:41:58Away!
0:42:02 > 0:42:03Oh, but I don't do my own!
0:42:05 > 0:42:07Dave!
0:42:07 > 0:42:09Do, do, do.
0:42:09 > 0:42:12I feel a lot of people now realise when they come to see our show
0:42:12 > 0:42:14that they're going to get a lot of contrasts.
0:42:14 > 0:42:17We're not scared of trying out different ideas, you know?
0:42:17 > 0:42:20I think one of the things we really steer clear of
0:42:20 > 0:42:22is trying to sort of repeat the same formula.
0:42:24 > 0:42:26That's not the thing done in rock and roll!
0:42:26 > 0:42:28Can you imagine it?
0:42:29 > 0:42:30As the albums have progressed,
0:42:30 > 0:42:32I mean, our sort of songwriting has progressed.
0:42:32 > 0:42:35We've sort of ventured into different areas.
0:42:35 > 0:42:37When people hear them on the records,
0:42:37 > 0:42:38we like to do them on stage.
0:42:38 > 0:42:40We'd like to try out something very different right now.
0:42:40 > 0:42:44This is from the new album, the News Of The World.
0:42:44 > 0:42:46Have you got it yet? The album, that is.
0:42:46 > 0:42:48AUDIENCE CHEERS
0:42:48 > 0:42:50OK, you might just about recognise this one.
0:42:50 > 0:42:53This is called My Melancholy Blues.
0:43:03 > 0:43:06# Another party's over
0:43:06 > 0:43:09# And I'm left cold sober
0:43:09 > 0:43:17# My baby left me for somebody new
0:43:17 > 0:43:22# I don't wanna talk about it
0:43:22 > 0:43:25# Want to forget about it
0:43:25 > 0:43:33# Wanna be intoxicated with that special brew
0:43:34 > 0:43:37# So come me... # Bluh-bluh-bluh!
0:43:39 > 0:43:42# Let me
0:43:55 > 0:43:59# Oh, don't expect me
0:44:00 > 0:44:04# To behave perfectly
0:44:04 > 0:44:08# And wear that sunny smile
0:44:08 > 0:44:14# My guess is I'm in for a cloudy and overcast
0:44:15 > 0:44:18# Don't try and stop me
0:44:18 > 0:44:25# Cos I'm heading for that stormy weather soon
0:44:26 > 0:44:30# I'm causing a mild sensation
0:44:30 > 0:44:34# With this new occupation
0:44:34 > 0:44:36# I'm permanently glued
0:44:36 > 0:44:42# To this extraordinary mood so now move over
0:44:42 > 0:44:46# And let me take over
0:44:46 > 0:44:53# With my melancholy blues
0:45:22 > 0:45:25# I'm causing a mild sensation
0:45:25 > 0:45:29# With this new occupation
0:45:29 > 0:45:31# I'm in the news
0:45:31 > 0:45:38# I'm just getting used to my new exposure
0:45:40 > 0:45:46# So, come into my enclosure
0:45:46 > 0:45:53# And meet my melancholy blues. #
0:46:19 > 0:46:20AUDIENCE CHEERS
0:46:24 > 0:46:27We are halfway through the tour with Queen now,
0:46:27 > 0:46:28and it's proving to be,
0:46:28 > 0:46:31relative to everything else that's on the road this autumn,
0:46:31 > 0:46:33a very, very successful tour.
0:46:33 > 0:46:36We've just come back from a gig at the Atlanta Stadium...
0:46:37 > 0:46:39..and we're just going up...
0:46:39 > 0:46:42I've already got one. ..to the bar to get another drink.
0:46:46 > 0:46:49- On the table, and kick it! - I don't want to...
0:46:49 > 0:46:52- On the table, and kick it! - What? Oh, right.
0:46:56 > 0:46:59The Midwest could get on your nerves,
0:46:59 > 0:47:01because of the sheer repetition of it,
0:47:01 > 0:47:04and every town looks so much like the other -
0:47:04 > 0:47:07and you did feel like you were in a culture vacuum sometimes.
0:47:07 > 0:47:08Sorry.
0:47:09 > 0:47:15All we have is bad televisions, vibrating beds, even worse,
0:47:15 > 0:47:19and bad food - but it was still a lot of fun.
0:47:19 > 0:47:20HE CHUCKLES
0:47:21 > 0:47:23There was loads of sex and drugs!
0:47:23 > 0:47:26No, there really wasn't much sex and...
0:47:26 > 0:47:28Well, there wasn't much drugs.
0:47:47 > 0:47:50- # Get down - Make love
0:47:50 > 0:47:54- # Get down - Make love
0:47:54 > 0:47:56- # Get down - Make love
0:47:58 > 0:48:00- # Get down - Make love
0:48:02 > 0:48:06# You take my body
0:48:06 > 0:48:09# I give you heat
0:48:09 > 0:48:12# You say you're hungry
0:48:12 > 0:48:16# I give you meat
0:48:16 > 0:48:18# You suck my mind
0:48:20 > 0:48:22# I blow your head
0:48:24 > 0:48:26# Make love
0:48:26 > 0:48:28# Inside your bed
0:48:28 > 0:48:32# Everybody get down, make love
0:48:32 > 0:48:35# Get down, make love
0:48:35 > 0:48:38- # Get down - Make love
0:48:38 > 0:48:41- # Get down - Make love
0:48:42 > 0:48:44# Every time I get high
0:48:44 > 0:48:46# You wanna come down
0:48:46 > 0:48:48# Every time I get hot
0:48:48 > 0:48:49# You say you wanna cool down
0:48:49 > 0:48:51# You say it's enough
0:48:51 > 0:48:52# In fact it's too much
0:48:52 > 0:48:57# Every time I wanna get down, get down, get down. #
0:48:57 > 0:48:59Your eye.
0:48:59 > 0:49:01Dry your eye. Get your eyepiece.
0:49:03 > 0:49:05Horrible use of space.
0:49:05 > 0:49:06You are going to start taking.
0:49:06 > 0:49:07I got a photograph of him tonight.
0:49:07 > 0:49:10- Really?- Smiling?
0:49:10 > 0:49:12How did you get that?
0:49:12 > 0:49:14He even managed to get on the video.
0:49:14 > 0:49:17- Me?- I fucking tripped...
0:49:18 > 0:49:21I came hurtling on in Now I'm Here,
0:49:21 > 0:49:24in the darkness, went arse over tit.
0:49:24 > 0:49:27Did you see that? That's why I came sort of...
0:49:27 > 0:49:29I kind of slipped and I went hurtling on and did all this.
0:49:31 > 0:49:33It really puts you off, for real.
0:49:38 > 0:49:40I thought it seemed to get together tonight.
0:49:40 > 0:49:41I enjoyed tonight.
0:49:41 > 0:49:42We're not together.
0:49:42 > 0:49:47Brian broke a string in, well, the most awkward spot,
0:49:47 > 0:49:51in the middle of Liar, where there's a crescendo, and it comes to a lull,
0:49:51 > 0:49:53and then he has to give it a cue, so we're all waiting,
0:49:53 > 0:49:54and he broke a string!
0:49:57 > 0:49:59So he's changing. I'm standing in this spotlight, I mean...
0:49:59 > 0:50:01Fuck!
0:50:06 > 0:50:08Anyway, we've been in worse things.
0:50:08 > 0:50:10How were the audience?
0:50:10 > 0:50:13They were good, yeah. It's been different this time.
0:50:13 > 0:50:17I don't know. Last time, the places were smaller, much smaller,
0:50:17 > 0:50:19but they were more...up.
0:50:19 > 0:50:22This time, I suppose, they brought their mums and dads.
0:50:25 > 0:50:28# I was nothing but a city boy
0:50:28 > 0:50:31# My trumpet was my only toy
0:50:32 > 0:50:34# I've been blowing my horn
0:50:34 > 0:50:36# Since I knew I was born
0:50:36 > 0:50:39# But there isn't nobody wants to know
0:50:39 > 0:50:43# I've been sleeping on the sidewalk
0:50:43 > 0:50:46# Rollin' down the road
0:50:47 > 0:50:49# I may get hungry
0:50:49 > 0:50:52# But I sure don't wanna go home. #
0:50:54 > 0:50:57What's happening when we get back to London,
0:50:57 > 0:51:00going to be presumably looking at your whole business situation
0:51:00 > 0:51:01and reviewing it.
0:51:01 > 0:51:03Let's face it, we're going to sort of try and sort out
0:51:03 > 0:51:06a lot of business... so-called business problems,
0:51:06 > 0:51:09and, I think, the Queen... the so-called Queen Empire,
0:51:09 > 0:51:13it's pretty large now, we've all got subsidiary companies and things,
0:51:13 > 0:51:16and it needs a lot of handling!
0:51:17 > 0:51:19# I may get hungry
0:51:19 > 0:51:21# But I sure don't wanna go home. #
0:51:24 > 0:51:26We didn't get a penny of record royalties
0:51:26 > 0:51:27from the first three albums
0:51:27 > 0:51:29so, basically, we got out of that one, right,
0:51:29 > 0:51:32by re-signing with a guy called John Reid.
0:51:32 > 0:51:34We signed with him for three years, right,
0:51:34 > 0:51:37which finishes in about September next year.
0:51:37 > 0:51:39What we are looking, at that point in time,
0:51:39 > 0:51:41is basically to just look after ourselves
0:51:41 > 0:51:43and, you know, do it completely on our own.
0:51:43 > 0:51:45- TAYLOR:- It's the long road to artistic and financial freedom,
0:51:45 > 0:51:48you know, which is so hard to find if you're successful to any degree,
0:51:48 > 0:51:51cos there's a million sharks out there.
0:51:56 > 0:51:58You've achieved so much, now, over the last five or six years,
0:51:58 > 0:52:03and I was wondering now what targets you have left to achieve, really.
0:52:03 > 0:52:06Number one album in America would be nice.
0:52:06 > 0:52:10Yeah, we've never had a number one over here.
0:52:10 > 0:52:13We've had very successful sort of two-million-selling albums,
0:52:13 > 0:52:15but we haven't had a number one album.
0:52:15 > 0:52:18I don't know. And also, we could be a bigger draw than we are, you know?
0:52:18 > 0:52:21Yes, I mean, we haven't...
0:52:21 > 0:52:24The wrong thing to do is to actually sort of see ourselves...
0:52:24 > 0:52:26..with a particular goal to meet, you know?
0:52:26 > 0:52:28I mean, to say, "This is where I want to go."
0:52:28 > 0:52:32It's got to be so wide that...
0:52:32 > 0:52:34I mean, you just keep going.
0:52:34 > 0:52:37I mean, it's endless, really.
0:52:37 > 0:52:39You're going to take some time off
0:52:39 > 0:52:41- when you get back to London, aren't you?- That's the plan, yeah.
0:52:41 > 0:52:43You have to get refreshed every now and again,
0:52:43 > 0:52:46and we haven't really had a holiday for the last four years or so.
0:52:46 > 0:52:48We've always said, "This is time off,"
0:52:48 > 0:52:50but then it isn't, because you get involved in projects.
0:52:50 > 0:52:53Certainly, for me, I'm going to get as far away as I can.
0:52:53 > 0:52:56I think we really deserve it.
0:52:56 > 0:52:57I think...
0:52:57 > 0:52:59Oh, we bloody well do!
0:52:59 > 0:53:03I think we've been kind of sort of putting it off and putting it off
0:53:03 > 0:53:05for the last six years, really,
0:53:05 > 0:53:09and I think the time has come where we can kind of ease off a bit
0:53:09 > 0:53:10and just...
0:53:11 > 0:53:14I mean, on this tour, I've been surviving on just jabs.
0:53:14 > 0:53:17I mean... I don't mean that, in that sense!
0:53:17 > 0:53:19Oh, please, mother!
0:53:19 > 0:53:20No!
0:53:21 > 0:53:23But, um...the show goes on.
0:53:28 > 0:53:30MUSIC: We Will Rock You
0:53:37 > 0:53:41# We will, we will rock you
0:53:41 > 0:53:42# All right!
0:53:42 > 0:53:46# We will, we will rock you
0:53:46 > 0:53:48# OK!
0:53:48 > 0:53:51# We will, we will rock you
0:53:53 > 0:53:58# We will, we will rock you... #
0:54:06 > 0:54:08As filming came to an end,
0:54:08 > 0:54:13News Of The World reached number three in the US Billboard charts,
0:54:13 > 0:54:16their most successful album in America to date.
0:54:17 > 0:54:21The double A-side We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions
0:54:21 > 0:54:26reached number four, just missing out on the top spot they craved.
0:54:33 > 0:54:35# I've paid my dues
0:54:35 > 0:54:39# Time after time
0:54:39 > 0:54:41# I've done my sentence... #
0:54:41 > 0:54:45It was to be another two years before their singles
0:54:45 > 0:54:48Crazy Little Thing Called Love and Another One Bites The Dust
0:54:48 > 0:54:52finally got them their American number one -
0:54:52 > 0:54:56but the huge appeal of We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions
0:54:56 > 0:55:00was to be pivotal in cementing Queen's relationship
0:55:00 > 0:55:02with the American audience -
0:55:02 > 0:55:05a relationship that endures to this day.
0:55:05 > 0:55:11# We are the champions, my friends
0:55:13 > 0:55:19# And we'll keep on fighting till the end
0:55:21 > 0:55:25# We are the champions
0:55:25 > 0:55:29# We are the champions
0:55:29 > 0:55:33# No time for losers
0:55:33 > 0:55:41# Cos we are the champions of the world... #
0:55:44 > 0:55:47I'm feeling very thankful and grateful and blessed
0:55:47 > 0:55:49just to be among you folks again,
0:55:49 > 0:55:51cos it's something you can't take for granted.
0:55:51 > 0:55:55This is an amazing moment for me, to be back here.
0:55:55 > 0:55:56- Thank you. - AUDIENCE CHEERS
0:55:58 > 0:56:01It seems quite incredible that old Roger and me are back here,
0:56:01 > 0:56:05and it's even more incredible that you guys are here to see us!
0:56:05 > 0:56:08# It's been no bed of roses
0:56:10 > 0:56:12# No pleasure cruise... #
0:56:14 > 0:56:16I don't think either Roger or I ever thought that this would happen.
0:56:16 > 0:56:20We thought it was kind of done, in the old days, when we lost Freddie -
0:56:20 > 0:56:22and it's wonderful that we have Adam.
0:56:22 > 0:56:23You need an extraordinary figurehead,
0:56:23 > 0:56:25and we do have it in Adam.
0:56:25 > 0:56:30# We are the champions, my friends
0:56:32 > 0:56:40# We'll keep on fighting till the end... #
0:56:40 > 0:56:42I didn't even think we'd ever get to this age.
0:56:42 > 0:56:44You don't think of it, you know?
0:56:44 > 0:56:47We spent half our lives building up this legacy of songs
0:56:47 > 0:56:49and sort of contact with an audience,
0:56:49 > 0:56:51and now we can still be Queen.
0:56:51 > 0:56:53In some ways, it's a miracle.
0:56:53 > 0:56:57# Cos we are the champions
0:56:59 > 0:57:06# We are the champions, my friends
0:57:07 > 0:57:13# And we'll keep on fighting till the end
0:57:15 > 0:57:19# We are the champions
0:57:19 > 0:57:23# We are the champions
0:57:23 > 0:57:27# No time for losers
0:57:27 > 0:57:31# Cos we are the champions
0:57:47 > 0:57:49# Remember
0:57:49 > 0:57:53# We are the champions of...
0:57:53 > 0:57:55# We are the champions of...
0:57:55 > 0:57:58# We are the champions of...
0:57:58 > 0:58:05# We are the champions of...
0:58:05 > 0:58:12# ..of the world. #