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This is the final concert of the year. Although the show is traditionally attributed to Tokyo, Seibu Lions Stadium is in the suburb “Tokorozawa.“ Although the song would never be performed on stage, during soundcheck the band run Football Fight from the Flash Gordon soundtrack. They perform the full version of Teo Torriatte once again, but in the encore, which makes room for Save Me one last time. Queen's first live video was released in Japan in 1983 on VHS, simply entitled “Live In Japan“, comprised of about an hour of material from this concert. No songs were edited (except for Brian May's solo spot), and no overdubs were done. Besides standard mixing, the only alterations done were in Put Out The Fire, where a bit of Freddie's vocal improv at the beginning of the song was muted (he can be seen singing in the distant shot on the video), and in We Are The Champions, where Freddie's lead vocal was brought down in the mix to obscure a voice crack in the second chorus. Around the time of its release, in December 1983, about a thousand lucky Japanese fan club members had the privilege of seing the complete show on video over five screenings in Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya. It hasn't been seen since. The edited video was later re-released on laserdisc, and about half of the footage (the italicized tracks) found its way onto disc 2 of the “Queen On Fire - Live At The Bowl“ DVD release: Flash (tape), The Hero, Now I'm Here, Put Out The Fire, Dragon Attack, Now I'm Here (reprise), Love Of My Life, Save Me, guitar solo [cut], Under Pressure, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Bohemian Rhapsody, Tie Your Mother Down, Teo Torriatte, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen The audio of the great version of Calling All Girls from this show can be heard on disc 2 of the Live At The Bowl DVD as the picture gallery is shown. It was also released a bonus track (with a bit of compression added) on the 2011 remaster of Hot Space, along with Action This Day from this show (also included on this track is Freddie's vocal exchange with the audience, which actually happened after Play The Game). The fast version of We Will Rock You was also released as a bonus track on the 2011 News Of The World remaster. All but five tracks from this show have now been officially released in one form or another. Tonight would be Queen's final performances of The Hero, the fast We Will Rock You, Action This Day, Play The Game, Calling All Girls, Put Out The Fire, Save Me, Get Down Make Love, Body Language, Fat Bottomed Girls, and Teo Torriatte. They wouldn't play another concert for nearly two years. Sources - Official Release (Disc 2 of the Live At The Bowl DVD) - Laserdisc Release (Thanks to Velizar) - Photo From & - Tokorozawa Audio Merge Velizar: Setlist: 1. Pre-Show/Backstage - 0:00 2. Flash (Tape) - 2:40 3. The Hero - 4:34 4. We Will Rock You (Fast) - 6:23 5. Action This Day - 9:29 6. Play The Game - 14:46 7. Calling All Girls - 20:00 8. Now I'm Here - 25:31 9. Put Out The Fire - 31:25 10. Dragon Attack - 33:30 11. Now I'm Here (Reprise) - 36:28 12. Love Of My Life - 38:40 13. Save Me - 43:35 14. Get Down Make Love - 47:38 15. Guitar Solo - 52:28 16. Body Language - 1:00:39 17. Under Pressure - 1:03:37 18. Fat Bottomed Girls - 1:07:55 19. Crazy Little Thing Called Love - 1:13:58 20. Bohemian Rhapsody - 1:19:58 21. Tie Your Mother Down - 1:25:43 22. Teo Torriatte - 1:32:17 23. Another One Bites The Dust - 1:36:38 24. We Will Rock You - 1:43:13 25. We Are The Champions - 1:45:32 26. God Save The Queen - 1:49:06 Hashtag: #Queen #Tokorozawa #HotSpace All Rights Goes To Queen.
