Metal Anarchy

Queen will be giving “Queen Rock Montreal” a new home release on May 10. The effort, which was recorded during the band’s November 24-25, 1981 shows at the Montreal Forum in Montreal, QC, can be pre-ordered as a 3LP vinyl set, a 2CD set, a double Blu-ray set, and a double 4K ultra HD set.

Brian May commented:

“Montreal is one of our favorite cities, it’s a great audience there, very full of energy. We’d played this particular venue, The Forum, several times before, and it was always full of really enthusiastic people giving us a lot of energy back. We were very, very hyped up, some of the tempos are really fast, there’s a lot of really incisive, angry playing”

Roger Taylor continued:

“It’s fascinating to now realize how free we were on stage in 1981. It’s a four piece, just the four of us in Queen, and to see Freddie. It’s like being on stage with the band because the cameras are very high quality for the time. I’ve never seen anything that makes you feel quite so involved with the performance.”

May added:

“I can’t think of any other record of our shows in which you are so intimately in contact with Freddie. You can almost see everything that’s going on in his head, you can see his anger, you can see his insecurity, you can see his consciousness that he can move people right to the back of the auditorium. To me, it’s very emotional. Oh my God, he was good.

You see four young guys, we’ve already been around the world a lot of times, we’ve sold a lot of records, we’ve had a lot of hits, we know how to play with each other. I feel proud of who we were at the time.”

Taylor concluded:

“It’s so satisfying to look at our younger selves in explosive action after all these years!”