Live Killers [Enhanced, Live]

I really love the Queen Live Killers! Jazz is one of my favorite album from Queen, so I was really pleased to hear a lot of songs from this album live! Freddie is a wonderful and an amazing singer! Queen rocks!! :) A must have if you like Queen in those years!

The main reason I picked this album up was because I wanted to know how Queen sounded live, in record. I'm not the biggest fan of live-recordings but I do enjoy them.

Listening to this makes me wish that there were also DVD-footage to go with it. I'd love to SEE '70s Queen-show, too.

Of course Freddie Mercury's vocals aren't same as in studio. Actually, I don't think he is at all at his best (which is, of course, purely marvellous!) on live. (vocally speaking, the showmanship is from outer space or something....Ü but we can't see it on CD.) But surely he is not bad, either, I don't mean it like that.

Sometimes I don't mind, and that's when I'm in the mood for Live Killers. But when I do mind, I'll listen to the studioalbums.

I don't like so much of '39 here. On "ANATO" I LOVE the song, but in the first place I'd like to hear Brian's vocals here too, and the other thing. Now this is something I find inexcusable. Freddie messes the lyrics up so bad! If you're going to perform the song, you learn the lyrics!!!!

What I love about this album, is the inclusion of early songs from Keep Yourself Alive and Killer Queen to Sheer Heart Attack and I'm In Love With My Car. Lovely.

Sound is raw '70s -style. Good for live, no complaints, I rather like it. :o)

Music, songs here are of course TEN out of five!

This is a good, solid live-CD recommended to all who want to hear some live-Queen.

Queen released their first live album Live Killers in July of 1979. The album was the band's first double live album and was their sixth attempt of recording the band's live show as they had recorded shows at The Rainbow Theater in London in late 1974, the classic Hammersmith Odeon shows Christmas Eve 1975, Hyde Park in London in September of 1976, Earl's Court in London in June of 1977 and The Houston Summit in Houston Texas in December of 1977. Apparently, only one has been officially released which was the Rainbow on VHS in late 1992 in the UK. This live album was recorded in early 1979 in Europe on the band's Jazz tour. Freddie Mercury, Brian May, John Deacon and Roger Taylor proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that Queen were a superior live band to studio. I prefer this album and the We Will Rock You DVD filmed in Montreal in 1981 over Live at Wembley Stadium as this album and the WWRY DVD had a young and hungry Queen. This album had a rocked up version of We Will Rock You to kick the album off which was released as a single here in the US but stiffed. Other highlights of this album include Let Me Entertain You, Spread Your Wings, Now I'm Here, Brighton Rock, Don't Stop Me Now, Bohemian Rhapsody, Love of my Life(a Top 20 single in the UK) and the closing We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions medley. This album peaked at #16 in the US and went Double Platinum with ease as Queen were huge here in America when this album first emerged. I first received this CD in May of 1992 and what a purchase. If you want the best of live Queen, look no further. This album is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!