Great film Mr Bluestreak, I saw it a few weeks ago.
It reminisces me.....
I was fortunate enough to be at Queens final gig at Knebworth in 1986, the day after I came out of my time as an apprentice.
Walking to the concert field was a two mile hike from the bus park and it was littered with bodies of people who had drunk to much and just passed out in the hot sun - Police were strolling about giving them an odd kick to make sure they were still drawing breath! It looked like a battlefield!
It was an amazing concert, with Status Quo beginning the entertainment, followed by a truly awesome show by Big Country - I went out to buy their greatest hits album the next day.
Queen were dazzling, and nobody knew then it would be their final performance together. I can still remember Freddie Mercury talking to the audience - it was something like "Wow" this is big - even for us!"
A shame their is no official video for the final live performance of Freddie Mercury's Queen - no one bothered to press the record button on the official video cameras......only a few newsreel snippets and a so called bootleg copy taken from the back exist.
I was about forty rows from the front in a central position, close enough to see a lot of the detail - once there you did not want to move - so the food and drinks kiosks that were at the sides were out of the question, if you wanted a pee, it was into a bottle then lobbed either behind you or to the front! there must have been a hundred bottles a minute flying through the air. On the downside we heard one unfortunate person received a fatal stab wound, it happened to our left somewhere well away from our position, so we did not hear about it until later.
When Radio GaGa came on, I remember turning around and seeing 120000 people raising their hands and clapping - a simply staggering sight that I will never forget.
If only you could go back in time to experience it once again!
Sundance