Magic Tour (Queen)


The Magic Tour was Queen's final tour with their lead singer Freddie Mercury and their bass guitarist John Deacon, with 26 concert dates in Europe in 1986. The band did not tour again until 19 years later, when the Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour began in 2005, after the death of Mercury on 24 November 1991, and the retirement of Deacon in 1997. The Magic Tour supported the band's album A Kind of Magic.
In 1987, Mercury was diagnosed as having AIDS and the band together made the decision to stop touring, making the concert at Knebworth on 9 August 1986 the last time that the four original members of Queen performed on stage together. The Knebworth concert is regarded as the pinnacle of the tour, and is often represented in photography by a frantic swarm of helicopters branded under the 'magic' emblem.
Over a million people attended the Queen tour, making it one of the largest ever. Support acts included The Alarm, The Bangles, Big Country, Belouis Some, INXS, Level 42, Marillion, Gary Moore, Status Quo, and Zeno.
From this tour, Queen have since released Live at Wembley on VHS, Laserdisc, CD and DVD, Live Magic on CD and on VHS and Laserdisc.

Setlists

Average setlist

This setlist is representative of the performance on 9 August 1986 in Stevenage, England. It does not represent all the setlists for the duration of the tour.
  1. "One Vision"
  2. "Tie Your Mother Down"
  3. "In the Lap of the Gods… Revisited"
  4. "Seven Seas of Rhye"
  5. "Tear It Up"
  6. "A Kind of Magic"
  7. "Under Pressure"
  8. "Another One Bites the Dust"
  9. "Who Wants to Live Forever"
  10. "I Want to Break Free"
  11. "Impromptu"
  12. "Guitar Solo"
  13. "Now I'm Here"
  14. "Love of My Life"
  15. "Is This the World We Created...?"
  16. " Baby I Don't Care"
  17. "Hello Mary Lou "
  18. "Tutti Frutti"
  19. "Bohemian Rhapsody"
  20. "Hammer to Fall"
  21. "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
    Encore
  22. "Radio Ga Ga"
    Encore
  23. "We Will Rock You"
  24. "Friends Will Be Friends"
  25. "We Are the Champions"
  26. "God Save the Queen"

    Selected setlists

Tour dates

Tour band

Additional musicians: