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Return of the Champions

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Length
  
101:00

Release date
  
19 September 2005

Genres
  
Rock music, Hard rock

Artist
  
Queen + Paul Rodgers

Label
  
Hollywood Records

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Released
  
19 September 2005 (CD and LP) 17 October 2005 (DVD)

Recorded
  
9 May 2005 in Sheffield

Producer
  
Joshua J. Macrae, Justin Shirley-Smith, Peter Brandt

Return of the Champions (2005)
  
The Cosmos Rocks (2008)

Return of the Champions (2005)
  
Super Live in Japan (2006)

Similar
  
Roger Taylor albums, Rock music albums

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 19 September 2005. A companion DVD was released in October, directed by David Mallet.

Contents

Track listing

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

Disc one

  1. "Reaching Out" (Black, Hill)**
  2. "Tie Your Mother Down" (May)
  3. "I Want to Break Free" (Deacon)
  4. "Fat Bottomed Girls" (May)
  5. "Wishing Well" (Rodgers, Kossoff, Bundrick, Yamauchi, Kirke)
  6. "Another One Bites the Dust" (Deacon)
  7. "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" (Mercury)
  8. "Say It's Not True" (Roger Taylor)
  9. Lead vocals by Taylor.
  10. "'39" (May)
  11. Lead vocals by May.
  12. "Love of My Life" (Mercury)
  13. Lead vocals by May.
  14. "Hammer to Fall" (May)
  15. Lead vocals by May and Rodgers.
  16. "Feel Like Makin' Love" (Rodgers, Ralphs)
  17. "Let There Be Drums" (Nelson, Podolor)
  18. "I'm in Love with My Car" (Taylor)
  19. Lead vocals by Taylor.
  20. "Guitar solo" (May)
  21. "Last Horizon" (May)

Disc two

  1. "These Are the Days of Our Lives" (Queen)
  2. Lead vocals by Taylor.
  3. "Radio Ga Ga" (Taylor)
  4. Lead vocals by Taylor and Rodgers.
  5. "Can't Get Enough" (Ralphs)
  6. "A Kind of Magic" (Taylor)
  7. "I Want It All" (Queen)
  8. Lead vocals by Rodgers and May.
  9. "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Mercury)
  10. Pre-recorded vocals by Mercury, with lead vocals by Rodgers.
  11. "The Show Must Go On" (Queen)
  12. "All Right Now" (Fraser, Rodgers)
  13. "We Will Rock You" (May)
  14. "We Are the Champions" (Mercury)
  15. "God Save the Queen" (Traditional, arr. May)
  16. "It's a Beautiful Day (Remix)" (Queen)
  17. Pre-recorded vocals by Mercury
  18. "Imagine" (Lennon)
  19. Lead vocals by May, Taylor and Rodgers.

Tracks 12-13 are bonus songs from the DVD.

Personnel

  • Paul Rodgers – lead vocals, guitars
  • Brian May – guitars, arrangements, vocals
  • Roger Taylor – drums, percussion, vocals
  • Spike Edney – keyboards, percussion, vocals
  • Jamie Moses – guitars, vocals
  • Danny Miranda – bass guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
  • Freddie Mercury – pre-recorded vocals ("Bohemian Rhapsody", "Beautiful Day"), pre-recorded piano ("Bohemian Rhapsody")

    • Songs

    1Reaching Out1:08
    2Tie Your Mother Down4:31
    3I Want to Break Free4:00

    References

    Return of the Champions Wikipedia
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