Magic Tour (Queen)

The Magic Tour was Queen's final tour with singer Freddie Mercury and bassist John Deacon, with 26 dates in Europe in 1986.[1] The band did not tour again until 19 years later, when the Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour began in 2005, after the death of Mercury on 24 November 1991, and the retirement of Deacon in 1997.[2] The Magic Tour supported the band's album A Kind of Magic.

For the 2007 tour by Bruce Springsteen, see Magic Tour (Bruce Springsteen).

The Magic Tour
European tour by Queen
Associated albumA Kind of Magic
Start date7 June 1986
End date9 August 1986
Legs1
No. of shows26
Queen concert chronology

In 1987, Mercury was diagnosed as having AIDS and together made the decision to stop touring.[3] The Knebworth concert is often represented in photography by a frantic swarm of helicopters branded under the 'magic' emblem.

Over a million people attended this tour, making it one of the largest ever. Support acts included The Alarm, The Bangles, Big Country, Belouis Some, INXS, Level 42, Marillion, Gary Moore, Status Quo, and Zeno.[4]

From this tour, Queen have since released Live at Wembley on VHS, Laserdisc, CD and DVD, Live Magic on CD and Live in Budapest on VHS and Laserdisc (later re-released and retitled as Hungarian Rhapsody: Queen Live in Budapest on DVD, Blu-ray and Deluxe editions).

Setlists

Average setlist
  1. "One Vision"
  2. "Tie Your Mother Down"
  3. "In the Lap of the Gods… Revisited"
  4. "Seven Seas of Rhye"
  5. "Tear It Up"
  6. "A Kind of Magic"
  7. "Under Pressure"
  8. "Another One Bites the Dust"
  9. "Who Wants to Live Forever"
  10. "I Want to Break Free"
  11. "Impromptu"
  12. "Guitar Solo"
  13. "Now I'm Here"
  14. "Love of My Life"
  15. "Is This the World We Created...?"
  16. "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care"
  17. "Hello Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart)"
  18. "Tutti Frutti"
  19. "Bohemian Rhapsody"
  20. "Hammer to Fall"
  21. "Crazy Little Thing Called Love
    Encore
  22. "Radio Ga Ga"
    Encore
  23. "We Will Rock You"
  24. "Friends Will Be Friends"
  25. "We Are the Champions"
  26. "God Save the Queen"

Selected setlists
Europe

Tour dates
Date City Country Venue Attendance
Europe
7 June 1986 Stockholm Sweden Råsunda Stadium 40,000[5]
11 June 1986 Leiden Netherlands Groenoordhallen 12,800[6]
12 June 1986 12,800[6]
14 June 1986 Paris France Hippodrome de Vincennes 40,000[6]
17 June 1986 Brussels Belgium Forest National 9,200[6]
19 June 1986 Leiden Netherlands Groenoordhallen 12,800[6]
21 June 1986 Mannheim West Germany Maimarktgelände 85,700[6]
26 June 1986 West Berlin Waldbühne 22,600[6]
28 June 1986 Munich Olympiahalle 11,200[6]
29 June 1986 11,200[6]
1 July 1986 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion 11,400[6]
2 July 1986 11,400[6]
5 July 1986 Slane Ireland Slane Castle 80,000[7]
9 July 1986 Newcastle England St James' Park 38,000[6]
11 July 1986 London Wembley Stadium 72,000[8][6]
12 July 1986 72,000[8][6]
16 July 1986 Manchester Maine Road 35,000[6]
19 July 1986 Cologne West Germany Müngersdorfer Stadion 50,000[6]
21 July 1986 Vienna Austria Wiener Stadthalle 12,000[6]
22 July 1986 12,000[6]
27 July 1986 Budapest Hungary Népstadion 80,000[6]
30 July 1986[lower-alpha 1] Fréjus France Arènes de Fréjus 15,000[6]
1 August 1986 Barcelona Spain Mini Estadi 45,000[6]
3 August 1986 Madrid Nuevo Estadio de Vallecas 37,000[6]
5 August 1986 Marbella Estadio Municipal de Marbella 37,000[6]
9 August 1986 Stevenage England Knebworth Park 120,000[10][11]

Notes
  1. The 30 July 1986 concert in Fréjus was originally scheduled to take place at Stade de l'Ouest in Nice.[9]

Tour band

Additional musicians:

See also

References
  1. Queen live on tour: Magic tour Queen Concerts. Retrieved 4 June 2011
  2. Queen most loved band The Guardian. Retrieved 3 August 2011
  3. 9 August 1986 – QUEEN LIVE Retrieved 4 June 2011
  4. http://www.queenconcerts.com/
  5. "Concert: Queen live at the Rasunda Fotbollstadion, Stockholm, Sweden [07.06.1986] [QueenConcerts]". www.queenconcerts.com. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
  6. "Queen on tour: Magic tour 1986 [QueenConcerts]". www.queenconcerts.com. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
  7. Trainor, Liz (19 February 2019). "When Queen headlined Slane - your memories of that day in July 1986". The Irish News. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
  8. "Concert: Queen live at the Wembley Stadium, London, UK [11.07.1986] [QueenConcerts]". www.queenconcerts.com. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
  9. "86-07-30_Frejus_poster". queenline.ca. Queen Live. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  10. Hamilton, Giorgina. "Remembering Freddie Mercury's incredible final concert with Queen - video". Smooth. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
  11. "The 35th Anniversary Of Queen's Last Performance With Freddie Mercury In Front Of 120,000 Fans". Rock Celebrities. 12 July 2021. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
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