Following Queen’s record-breaking success with the most successful IMAX concert film ever, Queen Rock Montreal will make its global streaming premiere May 15 on Disney+ as the first concert film available in IMAX Enhanced sound.
Queen Rock Montreal presents Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon at their most exciting and exhilarating. The original concerts, which took place on November 24 and 25, 1981, were arranged specifically to be filmed for a full-length concert film to document their live show. As Brian May puts it, this is Queen “live and dangerous.”
The film was restored for IMAX by Mercury Studios. Executive producers include Geoff Kempin and Alice Webb for Mercury Studios and Jim Beach and Matilda Beach for Queen Films.
Last month, the band announced deluxe releases of the iconic concert. The monumental event is now available to pre-order on 3LP transparent blue vinyl (Queen online store exclusive); 3LP black vinyl; 2CD limited edition; double Blu-ray; and a double 4K ultra high definition package. These various editions will arrive on May 10.
Queen were on all-conquering form when they returned to Montreal, Canada, for the fourth time in November 1981 to play two huge concerts at the 18,000-seat Forum.
This pair of Montreal concerts marked a historic moment for Queen. After their massive success in the 1970s, the band entered the 80s bigger than ever, with the hugely successful The Game album producing their two biggest ever US singles in “Another One Bites The Dust” and “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” (both Billboard No.1’s), followed by the UK No.1 single “Under Pressure.”
Queen’s return to Montreal came after almost two years of touring, including their very first tours of South and Central America, which saw the band playing two nights at Sao Paulo’s Morumbi Stadium to more than 150,000 devoted fans. As a result, when the band arrived in Canada in November 1981 they were in electrifying form.
“Montreal is one of our favorite cities, it’s a great audience there, very full of energy,” says Brian May. “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.”
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