Queen put up epic Freddie Mercury Dragon Attack reside efficiency from 40 years in the past

The week’s episode of the official YouTube documentary sequence takes Queen followers again to 1982 when Freddie Mercury and the band carried out on the Milton Keynes Bowl as a part of their Hot Space Tour.

The music of focus within the reside footage this time round is Dragon Attack, which Brian May wrote for Queen’s 1980 album The Game. 

The B-side observe of Another One Bites The Dust is thought for its funky sound and on this efficiency of it, there’s a sudden circulation proper right into a reprise of Now I’m Here from 1974’s Sheer Heart Attack.

Eagle-eyed followers ought to look out for the second proper at first when Brian breaks a guitar string on his Red Special – however switches to a spare and troopers on.

Dragon Attack was “flavoured by the long nights the lineup spent at Munich’s downtown discotheque Sugar Shack while recording at Musicland Studios.

The club is even referenced in the Dragon Attack lyric: ‘Take me to the room where the black’s all white and the white’s all black/Take me back to the Shack’.

Brian shared: “It was done very late one night, or early one morning, probably very drunk.”

Next week’s episode of Queen The Greatest Live appears again at Is This The World We Created?