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Queen undertake one their biggest tours of Europe and the UK yet, with 30 dates in all and promoting the new Hot Space album.

The biggest change to this tour, apart from a brand new lighting rig, is the addition of Morgan Fisher, the first person to play live on stage with the band as an auxilliary musician. He will play keyboards and piano to enhance the sound, especially on the new songs and giving Freddie the freedom to move around the stage more.

The support act for the tour is British band Bow Wow Wow. Regrettably, they will not stay for the duration because fans at one gig in Leiden decide to pelt them with bottles and food. Another British band called Airrace take over the support slot for the rest of the tour.

The tour ends at the band's Milton Keynes gig on June 5th, which again is filmed and shown on TV, but the whole show is not officially released until 2004.

In July they start their last tour of the USA, commencing in Montreal and having friend Billy Squier as the support act. Fred Mandel replaces Morgan Fisher on Keyboards and piano and remains throughout the American and Japanese legs of this tour. After the last two nights at the LA Forum, they return to the USA in September and play two songs live on the TV programme 'Saturday Night Live', playing Under Pressure and Crazy Little Thing Called Love .

A return trip to Japan in October entails six concerts in five cities, culminating with an outdoor show at Seibu Lions Stadium on 3 November. The show is filmed and later issued as an exclusively Japanese video titled Live In Japan.

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40 Years Ago: Queen Reach Their U.S. Peak With ‘The Game’ Tour

Queen had every reason to feel positive when they opened the world tour in support of their eighth album,  The Game , on June 30, 1980.

A 49-date U.S. run was ahead of them, the LP was released the same day and would go on to become their only No. 1 and “Another One Bites the Dust” would become their second chart-topping single from the record after “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” from the previous year.

Backstage, however, it wasn’t so straightforward. The Game – the band's  first album to feature synthesizers , albeit in a minimal manner – was a difficult record to complete. “We struggled bitterly with each other,” guitarist Brian May told Mojo in 1999. “We were all frustrated with each other. I remember [bassist]  John [Deacon] saying I didn't play the kind of guitar he wanted on his songs. We all tried to leave the band more than once. But then we'd come back to the idea that the band was greater than any of us. It was more enduring than most of our marriages.”

A total of 81 dates were booked worldwide over 17 months, including a record-breaking visit to South America and culminating with two nights at the Rock Montreal festival. As always, Queen invested heavily in putting on a memorable show, with running costs reportedly £25,000 a day, which equals about $180,000 a day in modern terms.

Synths wouldn’t begin to make an appearance at Queen live shows until 1982, which left May, Deacon, singer  Freddie Mercury  and drummer Roger Taylor continuing to focus the energy of four individuals on the challenge of replicating the feel of their multi-layered studio work.

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“The flashy thing, that if it looks good and is well presented, then it can’t really have a substance," May told Melody Maker during the tour. "A couple of years ago that was at its peak, that if you had a decent light show and a good PA, that was selling out to commercialism. I think people have got over that, the groups that were successful from that period have started to go down the road we’ve gone down. If people are paying to see them, it’s worth being able to be heard properly and seen properly. It’s worth doing a complete show that people are satisfied with.”

He noted that "touring is certainly the most immediately fulfilling part of what we do, and it’s not really a big strain – mentally or physically – because we’re well organized, we know how to do it. All you have to worry about is playing well on the night. For me, it’s by far the best part of being in the band. Suddenly, life becomes simple again!”

May didn’t discuss the tensions that surrounded the making of the album album, but he did say that "on the whole, I wouldn’t have it any other way. … I think you need the balance, you need the studio to develop ideas. … But there is always somewhere new to conquer, as it were.”

Even amid the peak of interest in the States, the guitarist insisted that it wasn’t the band’s main ambition. “It’s an aim that affects everybody, even if they won’t admit it, that you’re progressing,” he reflected. "You get to play Madison Square Garden for one night, then two, then three. You’re reaching more people each time, and it’s a recognition that the people who enjoyed themselves the first time had come back and brought their friends. … Often, if you sell more records, it doesn’t mean that the quality of the record is any better, sometimes quite the opposite. But it’s something you do, another little force that propels you along.”

In the same interview, May recalled his first visit to the U.S. "We sold out a couple of nights in a small place, and I went to see Led Zeppelin at the Forum," he explained. "And I thought then, ‘Jesus Christ, if we can ever play here, that would be the ultimate dream come true!’”

Ironically, Queen’s final U.S. concert would take place in that very same venue in September 1982. By that time,  The Game  had sold 4 million copies, powered by the success of the tour. But the combined forces of changing musical tastes, the flop of the sci-fi movie Flash Gordon featuring Queen’s soundtrack , further personal issues and mainstream disapproval of Mercury’s lifestyle meant many Americans lost interest in the band.

“I remember suddenly realizing that we weren't packing them in quite as much as we used to,” Taylor said of their final appearance at the L.A. Forum in 1982. Queen had much more to offer the world during the rest of the decade, but mainstream American fans sat most of it out.

“We always assumed that we would go back,” May said in 1999. “But events overtook us. I know Freddie was very keen for that last album [ Innuendo ] to be accepted in the States. But we never got there. … Even the impact of Freddie’s death wasn't anything like as big as the impact of Wayne’s World . It wasn’t the same as in Europe.”

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Queen’s tour of the south pacific, 1982.

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh completed a month-long Tour of the South Pacific on this day in 1982 (40 years ago), visiting   Australia (for the Commonwealth Games), as well as Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Nauru, Kiribati, Tuvalu, and Fiji, travelling on the Royal Yacht Britannia.

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The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh began the Tour in Australia, presiding over the closing ceremony of the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. The Queen (in the Girls of Great Britain & Ireland Tiara ) also attended a Commonwealth Variety Performance, and also attended a Gala at the Queensland Cultural Centre (in the Vladimir Tiara ). Additionally, the Queen (in the Girls of Great Britain & Ireland Tiara ) opened the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.

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The next stop on the Tour was Papua New Guinea, where the Royal Couple received a traditional welcome before a State Banquet in honour of the Queen (wearing the Girls of Great Britain & Ireland Tiara and Cambridge Emerald Parure ) and Duke that evening. The following day, after a sing-sing at Mount Hagen, the Queen (in the Vladimir Tiara and Japanese Pearl Choker ) hosted a Dinner on the Royal Yacht Britannia for Governor General Sir Tore Lokoloko, Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare, and their families.

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In the Solomon Islands, the Royal Couple received a traditional welcome and met hundreds of islanders on visits to multiple islands, at the end of which the Queen (in the  Belgian Sapphire Tiara ) hosted a Dinner on the Royal Yacht Britannia.

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The Queen and Duke also visited Nauru and Kiribati, making brief visits to tour the sights and partake in traditional ceremonies.

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The Queen and Duke then went to Tuvalu, where they were carried ashore in a boat and were guests of honour at a traditional feast, taking part in a series of rituals and ceremonies as well as touring the Islands.

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The Tour ended in Fiji, where there was a traditional welcome ceremony, an investiture and a Banquet held for the Queen (wearing the Girls of Great Britain & Ireland Tiara ) and Duke in in Suva, at the end of the Tour.

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Queen Setlist at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Phoenix, AZ, USA

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• We Will Rock You ( Fast ) Play Video
• Action This Day Play Video
• Play the Game Play Video
• Calling All Girls Play Video
• Now I'm Here Play Video
• Dragon Attack Play Video
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• Another One Bites the Dust
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love
• Dragon Attack
• Play the Game
• Rock It (Prime Jive)
• Action This Day
• Body Language
• Calling All Girls
• Under Pressure
• We Will Rock You (2)
• Get Down, Make Love
• We Are the Champions
• Now I'm Here (2)
• Tie Your Mother Down
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• Fat Bottomed Girls
• Guitar Solo
• God Save the Queen by [traditional]

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