QUEEN ON AIRReleased: November 4, 2016, UK (Virgin EMI), USA (Hollywood)
Charts: UK #25, USA Top Hard Rock Albums #19
Scotland #20, Portugal #27, Germany #28, Spain #32, Netherlands #47, Belgium #52, Austria #60, Italy #73, Switzerland #84, France #123
2018
France #96
Sold as a two disc (the BBC sessions) or six disc box set.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Air_(Queen_album)
AUDIO Sessions 1-6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1WwJW1Mu_w&list=PLgC34OV_4iVXqAMIUaL-o7p0_cpnbpkcp]
Details for Sessions 1, 2, and 3 Page 2
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=57201.35Session 4, Page 3
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=57201.70Session 5, Page 5
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=57201.140Session 6, Page 12
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=57201.385AUDIO Golders Green Hippodrome concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJhWfr4V_ns&t=961sComments Page 2
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=57201.35The BBC SessionsDISC ONE
Session 1: February 5, 1973
1 My Fairy King
2 Keep Yourself Alive
3 Doing All Right
4 Liar
Session 2: July 25, 1973
5 See What a Fool I've Been
6 Keep Yourself Alive
7 Liar
8 Son and Daughter
Session 3: December 3, 1973
9 Ogre Battle
10 Modern Times Rock 'N' Roll
11 Great King Rat
12 Son and Daughter
DISC TWO
Session 4: April 3, 1974
1 Modern Times Rock 'N' Roll
2 Nevermore
3 White Queen As It Began
Session 5: October 16, 1974
4 Now I'm Here
5 Stone Cold Crazy
6 Flick of the Wrist
7 Tenement Funster
Session 6: October 28,1977
8 We Will Rock You
9 We Will Rock You Fast
10 Spread Your Wings
11 It's Late
12 My Melancholy Blues
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DISC THREE
Golders Green Hippodrome, London, September 13, 1973
1 Procession
2 Father to Son
3 Son and Daughter
4 Guitar Solo
5 Son and Daughter (Reprise)
6 Ogre Battle
7 Liar
8 Jailhouse Rock
Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil, 20 March 1981
9 Intro
10 We Will Rock You (fast)
11 Let Me Entertain You
12 I'm in Love With My Car
13 Alright Alright
14 Dragon Attack
15 Now I'm Here (Reprise)
16 Love of My Life
Maimarktgelände, Mannheim, Germany, 21 June 1986
17 A Kind of Magic
18 Vocal Improvisation
19 Under Pressure
20 Is This the World We Created...?
21 (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care
22 Hello Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart)
23 Crazy Little Thing Called Love
24 God Save the Queen
INTERVIEWS
(Broadcast on BBC Radio 1)
DISC FOUR (1976–1980)
1 Freddie with Kenny Everett, ‘A Day at the Races’ album, November 1976 *
2 Queen Interview with Tom Browne, ‘News of the World’ album, Christmas 1977
3 Roger with Richard Skinner, ‘Live Killers’ album, June 1979
4 Roger with Tommy Vance, ‘Flash Gordon’ album and film, December 1980
5 Roy Thomas Baker ‘The Record Producers’
DISC FIVE: (1980–1986)
1 John interview, South American tour, March 1981
2 Brian on ‘Rock On’ with John Tobler, ‘Hot Space’ album, June 1982
3 Brian on ‘Saturday Live’ with Richard Skinner and Andy Foster, ‘The Works’ album, March 1984
4 Freddie on ‘Newsbeat’, The Works Tour, August 1984
5 Brian on ‘Newsbeat’, ‘The Works’ album, September 1984
6 Freddie on ‘Saturday Live’ with Graham Neale, ‘The Works’ album, September 1984
7 Freddie with Simon Bates, April 1985
8 Brian on ‘The Way It Is’ with David ‘Kid’ Jensen. Wembley Stadium, London, July 1986 *
DISC SIX: (1986–1992)
1 Roger interview, ‘My Top Ten’ with Andy Peebles, May 1986
2 ‘Queen for an Hour’ interview with Mike Read, ‘The Miracle’ album, May 1989
3 Brian with Simon Bates, ‘Freddie and Too Much Love Will Kill You’, August 1992
4 Brian with Johnnie Walker, ‘Freddie and the Tribute Concert’, October 1992
Broadcast on BBC Radio 1 except
* Broadcast on Capital Radio
The multiple decades long-awaited release finally happens. And, of course I’m going to complain.
First, ‘The March of the Black Queen’ is missing, so the ‘Sessions’ is incomplete. Even though it was simply played on a tape at the time, it should have been included.
The Golders Green performance is missing ‘See What A Fool I’ve Been’ (complete show is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKUCsM-uP5o )
Sessions 1-4 could have been on Disc One, Sessions 5-6 and the Golders Green performance on Disc Two…… and then the rest of the material on the six disc box set.
The complete Sao Paulo show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec1sOcraou4 and
Mannheim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUahFZ1lIhE&t=4233s . A weird hodgepodge of selected songs.
And then, there’s three discs of interviews. If that’s your thing, you’ll enjoy this. I never bothered with the Freddie interviews from his 2000 box set until a couple of months ago.
The two disc set is the affordable way to go, along with downloading the complete Golders Green performance from youtube.
http://www.ultimatequeen.co.uk/ then 'live albums' 'on air' for art work from the vinyl box set, and which is terribly lacking on the 2 disc release.
Highlights mentioned in the prior posts:
all of them! But, seriously, both of the extended 'Son And Daughter' performances, 'White Queen' (with piano), 'Nevermore', 'Liar', 'See What A Fool I've Been', 'Doing Alright', Modern Times (Session 4), Spread Your Wings, We Will Rock You [fast], My Melancholy Blues, and........the rest of the songs!