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412: 181:, an entrepreneur at the time. The band intended to perform their usual encores of Now I'm Here, Big Spender and Jailhouse Rock, but the show had run a half hour past its scheduled ending time (a curfew strictly enforced by the authorities). The police threatened to arrest the band if they tried to went back on stage to play the encores, and Freddie was later quoted saying how he would prefer not to be stuck in a jail cell in his leotard, so the show was over after In The Lap Of The Gods... Revisited. 1576: 1520: 188:, the drummer of Queen, the complete show was supposed to be shown on TV in early 1977 but was never aired. Since then, the full show has leaked out to the Internet, though in terrible quality. Over the years, some of the footage has been shown in various documentaries and there are rumors of a future official release. The 2011 reissue of 197:
The rest of the day's music was provided by The Kiki Dee Band, Supercharge, The Rich Kids (not to be confused with Midge Ure's band of the same name), Broken Wreck Chords and Steve Hillage. Elton John did not appear duetting with Kiki Dee for
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The Hyde Park gig was a free concert, which drew in a crowd of over 150,000, which was one of the largest audiences for any concert in
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Beforehand, I remember Kiki Dee singing Don't Go Breaking My Heart to a cardboard cut-out of Elton John, who couldn't make it.
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In the summer of 1976, they performed a free concert at London's Hyde Park that broke attendance records...
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https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Record-Mirror/70s/76/Record-Mirror-1976-09-25.pdf
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There is more than one audio source of this concert as well as a video. According to
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Hancock, David (25 September 1976). "Queen celebrate King's anniversary".
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includes a performance of "You Take My Breath Away" from this date.
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Queen
London
England
Hyde Park
Summer Gigs 1976
Kiki Dee
Steve Hillage
Supercharge
Queen
Cardiff
Milwaukee
Queen
Hyde Park, London
brief summer tour of the UK by the band
Edinburgh
Cardiff
London
Richard Branson
Roger Taylor
A Day at the Races
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Record Mirror
Brian May
death of Jimi Hendrix
Freddie Mercury
videotape
kinescoped
16 mm film
A Night at the Opera
A Day at the Races (Intro)

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