Hot Space Tour '82

A1 to E4 Recorded live at Kyuden Auditorium, Fukuoka, Japan on October 19, 1982 (NOT L.A. Forum, '82!!!) E5 to E7 Recorded live at National Bowl, Milton Keynes, UK on June 5, 1982 F1 to F8 Recorded live at Kyuden Auditorium, Fukuoka, Japan on October 20, 1982 (Side F) Back in 1983, bootleggers wanted to pass the majority of this 3-LP collection of songs off as Los Angeles '82. For this reason, Brian's speech before Love Of My Life was edited out probably because he mentioned how they were in Japan, and some of God Save The Queen is cut as Freddie probably said "sayonara", as he always did in Japan. Over time it was realized this material must be from Japan, as the band didn't perform Love Of My Life on the North American tour. And after recordings of the other four Japanese shows emerged, the process of elimination pointed all fingers to the two nights in Fukuoka. Sides 1-4 and the first four tracks of side 5 have since been labeled as being from October 19. Side 6 contains a different concert opening (labeled as "Flash Gordon", but actually Flash into The Hero), and it is clearly a Japanese audience heard clapping along to the songs, so these tracks therefore must be from the following night, since the other four Japanese '82 shows are accounted for. The last three tracks of side 5 are from the Milton Keynes show as stated on the LP, but they are a pretty rough-sounding audience recording. The possibility remains that these two Fukuoka dates could be reversed, but for the sake of simplicity, the traditionally-given dates will stand until properly-labeled and uncut pre-LP tapes show up. Side D of this 3-LP set has 3 songs from Milton Keynes, UK on June 5, 1982 (Staying Power, Under Pressure, Sheer Heart Attack) Side F of this 3-LP set is from the second night in Fukuoka. Due to the excessive EQing done for most of the other bootlegs (or "semi-official" releases) of this show, the original LP remains the best version.