Return of the Champions

Infobox Album
Name = Return of the Champions
Type = Live album
Artist = Queen + Paul Rodgers


Released = September 19, 2005 (CD) October 17, 2005 (DVD)
Recorded = May 9 2005 in Sheffield
Genre = Rock
Length = 101:00
Label = Parlophone (Europe)
Hollywood Records (US)
Producer = Joshua J. Macrae, Justin Shirley-Smith & Peter Brandt
Reviews =
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*"Allmovie" Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:335907 link]
* Robert Christgau D+ [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=5550&name=Queen+%2B+Paul+Rodger0s link]
Artist = Queen
Last album = "Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl" (2004)
This album = "Return of the Champions" (2005)
Next album = "Queen Rock Montreal" (2007)
Misc = Singles
Name = Return of The Champions
Type = live
single 1 = Reaching Out (Live)"/"Tie Your Mother Down (Live)
single 1 date = August 29, 2005 (Europe)

Return of the Champions is a double live album by English rock band Queen + Paul Rodgers. It was recorded in May 2005 during the Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour at the Hallam FM Arena in Sheffield, England (except for "Imagine", which was performed in Hyde Park, London immediately after that year's terrorist attack) and released on September 19, 2005. A companion DVD was released in October, directed by David Mallet.

Track listing

All lead vocals performed by Paul Rodgers, except where noted.

Disc one

#"Reaching Out" (Black, Hill)
#"Tie Your Mother Down" (May)
#"I Want to Break Free" (Deacon)
#"Fat Bottomed Girls" (May)
#"Wishing Well" (Rodgers, Kossoff, Bundrick, Yamauchi, Kirke)
#"Another One Bites the Dust" (Deacon)
#"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" (Mercury)
#"Say It's Not True" (Taylor)
#*"Lead vocals by Taylor".
#"'39" (May)
#*"Lead vocals by May".
#"Love of My Life" (Mercury)
#*"Lead vocals by May".
#"Hammer to Fall" (May)
#*"Lead vocals by May & Rodgers."
#"Feel Like Makin' Love" (Rodgers, Ralphs)
#"Let There Be Drums (song)" (Nelson, Podolor)
#"I'm in Love with My Car" (Taylor)
#*"Lead vocals by Taylor".
#"Guitar solo" (May)
#"Last Horizon" (May)

Disc two

#"These Are the Days of Our Lives" (Queen)
#*"Lead vocals by Taylor"
#"Radio Ga Ga" (Taylor)
#*"Lead vocals by Taylor & Rodgers"
#"Can't Get Enough" (Ralphs)
#"A Kind of Magic" (Taylor)
#"I Want It All" (Queen)
#*"Lead vocals by Rodgers & May."
#"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Mercury)
#*"Pre-recorded vocals by Mercury, with lead vocals by Rodgers"
#"The Show Must Go On" (Queen)
#"All Right Now" (Fraser, Rodgers)
#"We Will Rock You" (May)
#"We Are the Champions" (Mercury)
#"God Save the Queen" (Traditional, arr. May)
#"It's a Beautiful Day (Remix)" (Queen)
#*"Pre-recorded vocals by Mercury"
#"Imagine" (Lennon)
#*"Lead vocals by May, Taylor and Rodgers""Tracks 12-13 are bonus songs from the DVD".

Personnel

*Brian May: Guitars, arrangements, vocals.
*Roger Taylor: Drums, percussion, vocals.
*Paul Rodgers: Guitars, vocals.
*Spike Edney: Keyboards, percussion, vocals.
*Jamie Moses: Guitars, vocals.
*Danny Miranda: Bass guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals.

External links

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