#it wasn't even her concert it was a festival and the lineup is so good!

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It's "mental health is important" until someone prioritises their mental health in a way that inconveniences you.

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Queen live at Knebworth Park in Stevenage, UK - August 9, 1986 (Part-1)

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This is the final Queen concert ever with the lineup of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon. The band went out in style, playing for an estimated 120,000 fans (some sources claim it was as high as 200,000). At the time, it was the largest single paying audience for a UK rock concert in over ten years. Thousands of fans camped outside the park gates the night before.

This last date was added after the Wembley Stadium shows in July had sold out so quickly, (Brian later said how the band could have probably done 5 or 6 nights at Wembley). In fact, the promoter, Harvey Goldsmith, had already booked the park anyway, as he was sure the extra show would be necessary, and Wembley wasn't available for more dates.

New wave artist Belouis Some opened the festivities, followed by Status Quo and Big Country. The biggest of the three opening acts, Status Quo played before Big Country because they had to leave early for another gig in Germany. They were planning to set a world record by playing three gigs in three countries on a single day.

A bottle fight began in the audience early in the day, and plenty of bottles were being thrown at Belouis Some throughout their set - one of their backing singers held what looked like a washing bowl over her head for protection. Goldsmith came on at one point pleading with the crowd to calm down. Thousands of bottles were thrown around throughout the day.

During Quo's set, one of their roadies stood in front of the Starvision screen with a big cardboard guitar. When told about it afterward, the band said how they thought the audience's reaction was for them! The roadie was promptly terminated after his 15 seconds of fame.

Between acts, various videos were shown on the big screen, including many Thin Lizzy videos (with whom Queen had toured in 1977), as singer/bassist Phil Lynott had passed away earlier in the year. They also spun Dire Straits' latest record "Brothers in Arms" in its entirety.

Queen flew into the park on a helicopter during Quo's set.

As reported by many audience members, Big Country played a great set. By the fourth encore number, however, an angry-looking Harvey Goldsmith repeatedly pointed at his wrist at the side of the stage. Around this point, someone in the audience threw a two-litre bottle (containing a liquid which probably doesn't need to be named) at the singer, Stuart Adamson, which he successfully dodged.

Freddie sounds very strong throughout the show, and there is a lot of classic banter with the audience:

After the second song, he immediately speaks in response to the overwhelming ticket sales that necessitated this huge concert. "Hello! This is what you wanted, this is what you're gonna get! Is everybody okay, having a nice day? Yeah, not too bad, huh? Now you gotta put up with us."

After A Kind Of Magic, he happily points out, "This is an enormous place, even by our standards, I tell you. It looks beautiful from up here! It's frightening, I tell you. It looks beautiful." After the vocal duel with the audience, he says, "You fuckers are good, I tell you. I'll get you after a couple of songs, you wait. You're on!" Then after the first chorus of Another One Bites The Dust where he invites them to sing along, he remarks, "I told you I was gonna get ya!"

Before Another One Bites The Dust, he says, "This next song calls for a boogie, I mean... it means I throw my cunt around the stage even more than I've done." After the vocal improv in the middle section, John plays a couple funky bass riffs, and playing off him, Brian throws in some equally funky riffs, reminiscent of "Fun It" from the Jazz album. Some fans consider this to be the best version of the song ever performed by the band.

After Dust, Freddie says, somewhat seriously, "I think most of you know that this is the last stop on our tour." Then more informally, "You know that, don't you? And such a beautiful way to end it. I mean, look at the lot of you. I might also add that this has been the best European tour for us, thanks to all you fuckers out there. And earlier on there were rumours of us splitting up, but, I mean... fuck 'em. I mean really, look at this!" he says as he smiles, once again referring to the size of the audience. "How can you split up when you have an audience like this? I mean, really. We're not that stupid!"

Roger plays with much enthusiasm throughout, particularly during the impromptu. Freddie even shouts "Nice one!" in reaction to his drum solo in its finale. Roger later recalled this to be a very fun show, and one of his favourites of Queen's career.

Before Love Of My Life, Brian says this tour is "The biggest and best thing that ever happened to us." The show's brief serious portion begins with Brian's introduction of Is This The World We Created. "About a year and a half ago" [ed. it was well over two years, actually], "which is before Live Aid and all that stuff, we saw some stuff on television which disturbed us a lot, and very late one night in Munich we sat down and wrote what we thought about it, and this is it." The video of the last performance of this touching ballad can be seen on the "Champions Of The World" documentary.

Freddie, with his Telecaster on before Crazy Little Thing Called Love, doesn't even need to introduce the song anymore, as a fair portion of the audience know what's next: "Okay, this only means one thing." Brian enters in the third verse on his Telecaster as usual, but it's letting out an awful lot of noise (an audience member recalls Brian breaking a string). He makes the quick decision to switch to the Red Special for the solo, and gets there just in time.

John Deacon uncharacteristically tosses his Fender Precision bass away immediately following Radio Ga Ga, as seen in pic 18. This can also be seen on the official Rare Live video. He hit the other basses on their stands in front of the amps, knocking them all over. The roadies then took them off stage, presumably to check for damage and retune them before the second encore. John ultimately doesn't cause any significant damage to his P-bass, as he uses it for the final three songs.

"Thank You, beautiful people. You've been a tremendous... you've been a really special audience. Thank you very much. Good night, sweet dreams, we love you," are Freddie's closing words, after which he and the boys leave the stage for the last time.

As people were leaving, an employee suddenly turned off all of the lights in the park (and ended up getting fired for it, as the intention was just to cut the power to the stage in case Queen wanted to play a third encore after the venue's curfew), forcing an audience of this size to find their way out in pitch darkness.

A baby was born in the audience at some point in the evening, but someone was killed as well. A fan climbed a lighting tower to get a better view, but fell onto someone who was none too pleased and subsequently stabbed him. St. John's Ambulance was called, but their fight through the crowd took too long and the victim died. Upon learning about the fan's death, Freddie Mercury was recorded saying, "If people have to die because they wanna see us, I'll never perform live again." This is yet another haunting comment from the year, furthermore suggesting that Freddie knew he was ill at this point.

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Part-2

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So if they were going to announce performers about a month out why the F wouldn't they just skip EF this year? I wanted to go but I wasn't going to buy tickets and arrange travel without a lineup, and I now chose to go to a different concert that weekend instead. One where I knew the performer. I also cannot actually believe PBBs 34th bday is a white theme after a wedding. JFC she is so tacky and the stans excuse it all away.

Well, apparently I am not  a fan according to one stan as i pick apart D, his “beautiful wife who has done NOTHING wrong” and his friends of over a decade.  So yes, nonnie, safe to say they excuse it all away.  They truly see or hear no evil as long as their fantasy is fulfilled and that fantasy is that D is straight.  The other parts may vary, but as long as he is into females, it is all good even if it means he is kind of misogynist jerk (sorry but that bar has taken things to a whole new level) in an incredibly unhealthy relationshit (but they ignore that too, they like how she treats him like crap and he runs away from her at every opportunity. tots normal). But of course we are problem, and not the idiots that surround him.

And as such, it is perfectly normal i suppose to have a festival in 5 weeks and 1 day and to not have announced a line up in Central Park, something i am sure is an expensive proposition. But nope, not incompetent, it is just how they operate and why should we care? Oh I don’t know, because people like to plan in advance and make travel plans and decide between different options? Silly me, who would have though the fans were important?  But nope, RR is a wonderful manager and we should all praise his ability to jump over shit.

A friend reminder me that the LGBT community has white parties and well, I will leave that though here for now, but if there is EVEN a hint of a connection....