Queen + Paul Rodgers – Live In Ukraine (2CD) (2009)

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Live in Ukraine is a double live album and video and also last release by British rock collaboration Queen + Paul Rodgers. It was recorded in September 2008 during the Rock the Cosmos Tour at Freedom Square in Kharkiv, Ukraine and was released on 15 June 2009. A companion DVD was also released.

Receiving a wide release in Europe and a limited release in the U.S., Live in Ukraine is a live set — coming, as these things do in 2009, in a variety of guises, including a two-CD/one-DVD set and deluxe editions that grow ever grander with an escalating price tag — capturing Queen & Paul Rodgers mega-charity concert of September 12, 2008, where they filled Freedom Square to assist Ukraine’s AntiAids Foundation.
A crowd of 350,000 showed and millions more watched on television in their homes, all seeing Queen & Paul Rodgers run through all the expected classics — much heavier on the former than the latter, although “Shooting Star,” “Feel Like Making Love,” and “All Right Now” all rear their heads — adding a few cuts from their collaborative studio album.
This is not demonstratively different in sound or feel from the band’s previous outing with Rodgers, the 2005 live Return of the Champions, but the group does seem goosed by the sense of scale, giving this some sense of force and majesty missing from Return, plus the fit of rough-and-tumble Rodgers with the pomp-n-circumstance Queen is getting better, even if it remains a match made in the boardroom, not heaven.

 

Disc 1

  1. “One Vision” (Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon) – 4:03
  2. “Tie Your Mother Down” (May) – 2:29
  3. “The Show Must Go On” (Mercury, May, Taylor, Deacon) – 4:37
  4. “Fat Bottomed Girls” (May) – 5:00
  5. “Another One Bites the Dust” (Deacon) – 3:35
  6. “Hammer to Fall” (May) – 3:42
  7. “I Want It All” (Mercury, May, Taylor, Deacon) – 4:10
  8. “I Want to Break Free” (Deacon) – 3:55
  9. “Seagull” (Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs) – 4:50
  10. “Love of My Life “ (Mercury) – 5:45
    • Lead vocals by May.
  11. “’39” (May) – 4:37
    • Lead vocals by May.
  12. “Drum Solo” (Taylor) – 5:00
  13. “I’m in Love with My Car” (Taylor) – 3:42
    • Lead vocals by Taylor.
  14. “Say It’s Not True” (Taylor) – 4:02
    • Lead vocals by Taylor, May & Rodgers.

Disc 2

  1. “Shooting Star” (Rodgers) – 6:21
  2. “Bad Company” (Simon Kirke, Rodgers) – 5:36
  3. “Guitar Solo” (May) – 3:58
  4. “Bijou“ (Queen) – 2:07
    • Lead vocals by Mercury (via tape)
  5. “Last Horizon” (May) – 4:32
  6. “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” (Mercury) – 4:04
  7. “C-lebrity“ (Taylor) – 3:52
  8. “Feel Like Makin’ Love” (Rodgers, Ralphs) – 6:45
  9. “Bohemian Rhapsody” (Mercury) – 5:53
    • Pre-recorded vocals by Mercury, with lead vocals by Rodgers.
  10. “Cosmos Rockin’” (Taylor) – 4:28
  11. “All Right Now” (Andy Fraser, Rodgers) – 5:31
  12. “We Will Rock You” (May) – 2:19
  13. “We Are the Champions” (Mercury) – 2:59
  14. “God Save the Queen” (Traditional, arr. May) – 2:05

Digital Download bonus track

  1. “A Kind of Magic” (Taylor) – 5:43
  2. “Radio Ga Ga” (Taylor) – 6:15

 

Personnel

  • Freddie Mercury: Pre-recorded lead (Bijou, Bohemian Rhapsody) and backing vocals, and pre-recorded piano (Bohemian Rhapsody).
  • Brian May: Guitars, arrangements, vocals.
  • Roger Taylor: Drums, percussion, vocals.
  • Paul Rodgers: Vocals, guitars, piano.
  • Spike Edney: Keyboards, percussion, vocals.
  • Jamie Moses: Guitars, vocals.
  • Danny Miranda: Bass guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals.

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Credits

Notes
Released: 15 June 2009 (CD & DVD)
Recorded: 12 September 2008 in Kharkiv
Genre: Rock
Length: 120:26
Producer(s): Joshua J Macrae, Justin Shirley Smith, Kris Fredriksson

Label – Parlophone (Europe) / Hollywood (US)

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