Live Magic [Live]

Queen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 13, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Hollywood Records
• ASIN: B000000OBR
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #152,106 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars QUEEN'S LIVE N LITE COMPILATION, January 8, 2005

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G. YEO "gyeo" (Singapore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live Magic (Audio CD)

This disc was the 2nd live offering from Queen after QUEEN LIVE KILLERS was made in the late seventies.

I like it a lot and prefer this to Live at Wembley and even the recent On Fire, all of which are double sets.

Here's why - although it's edited - the performances are sterling. Versions of One Vision, Tie Your Mother Down and Radio Gaga are great.

No disagreements that Bohemian sounds butchered but the album moves along at a nice pace. It feels tighter. Worth getting for the songs unless you must have a complete double set of Queen in concert.

I will say that the definitive live Queen set is probably still in the vaults waiting to be released...

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magic live, June 20, 2000

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Bjorn Clasen (Rolléngergronn, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Europe) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live Magic (Audio CD)

I admit that »Queen Live Killers« is an even better live album than »Live Magic«. But I don't understand why everybody dislikes »Live Magic« 'cause it is another great live album. Like only Queen made'em!

Especially the close-to-medley in the second half of the recording. 6 or 7 great songs linked together in one Queen epic. Euphoric! The best performance of'em all is shown on »Hammer To Fall«.

This is pure Queen live power from the first tune to the last. Cheers!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Live Magic is for the completionist ONLY!!!, October 15, 2009

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GentleSouth "z" (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live Magic (MP3 Download)

While this album isn't a miserable failure, it certainly begs one to wonder, "How is this still in print?" You have to remember that had Freddie Mercury not died of AIDS, LIVE MAGIC would probably be the only live material released from the Kind of Magic tour of 1985/86'. But after Mercury's death, the band released LIVE AT WEMBLEY STADIUM - a greatly improved live presentation of the KIND OF MAGIC tour. Upon it's release , LIVE AT WEMBLEY was seen as a fitting tribute to Mercury's brilliant songwriting, equally brilliant voice, heroic charisma and unbelievable crowd control. Since WEMBLEY was considered the perfect swan song to Mercury's career, the "Tour highlights" CD package known as LIVE MAGIC quickly became unimportant.

..... here are a few reasons why LIVE AT WEMBLEY is the wise purchase over LIVE MAGIC :::::

1 Every song on Live Magic is chopped into shorter versions (except for 3 songs).
2 The sound quality is not as good as LIVE AT WEMBLEY
3 LIVE AT WEMBLEY features several extra tracks, such as a fun little acoustic/50's section in the show. Also, the newest version of WEMBLEY contains Tavaski Szel Vizet Araszt - another emotional live moment in Queen's history. Where are the emotional moments on LIVE MAGIC? There are none.
4 The running times of these shortened versions are ridiculous.... "Friends will be Friends" is barely over a minute long. Same thing with "Is This The World We Created?".
5 Another query: Where in the blue hell is "Who Wants To Live Forever"?!??!...... as Freddie would say, "Darling, please!"
6 And most importantly.... there is NOTHING MAGIC about the live performances. Most shows take place on different nights - so the ebb and flow of a real rock show is lacking. So many issues....but it's Queen - so I'll give it 2 stars instead of 1 1/2 stars like I normally would

ONLY FOR HARDCORE QUEEN FANS ! If you really want to hear Queen live iin addition to this release and LIVE AT WEMBLEY, I'd suggest ON FIRE: LIVE AT THE BOWL or QUEEN ROCK MONTREAL ..... both have better set lists and superior sound quality (and Mercury is dead on, unlike the 85' tour when he was struggling with health issues).....