Queen - Queen Rock South America (with Lyrics & Subtitles)
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Queen - Queen Rock South America (en) Lyrics
This is Queen The Greatest,
and this week we head back to 1981,
and one of the biggest,
most ground breaking tours
in Queen’s live history.
It’s the time they rocked
South America.
“South America reared
its head, and we heard rumours that
we were the biggest thing ever
in Argentina and Brazil,
and they started
to ask us to go down there.
And they were saying, ‘you can play
football stadiums down there’
and we went ‘oh, you’re joking’.”
“In those days,
under the dictatorship in Argentina,
we were negotiating with
the Army General,
and he said to me ‘how can I possibly
allow 50,000 young people
into a stadium,
when I can’t control them.
What happens if somebody suddenly
shouts out “Viva Peron”
in the middle of a Queen concert,
and I have a riot on my hands?’
And I tried to explain
to him that rather
like Gladiatorial matches in Rome,
this was panacea to the people.
They never, ever had this before, this
would be an extraordinary experience.’
“So, we got the whole thing
together and it was God knows how many
jumbo jets full of equipment.”
“The travel arrangements
were very scary, with,
you know, driving
the wrong way along a
raised motorway with
outriders, with guys
in big jeeps waving
their big guns and getting
the cars coming
straight towards them to pull over.”
“Fred, how do you feel
playing and singing
before 200,000 people?”
“Haven’t done it yet.”
“I can remember being
nervous the first night,
the top tier alone took 80,000,
and we were in this sort
of dug out which,
I guess, the football teams would
normally be in.
All the windows were broken and I
remember thinking “hmm,
this is, you know,
this is going to take some balls
to walk out there.”
“All the shows done in
Argentina, were all at
football stadiums
and they were very worried
about the pitch
getting damaged, because
it’s their sort
of hallowed ground, the football turf.
And we came up with this idea,
covering it with plastic grass,
and they agreed to it, because
that was something we
really wanted was to
have a lot of people on the pitch.
We set the stage up down one end,
I mean they were quite happy to have
people in the stands,
but we insisted that
we must have people on
the pitch as well
to give a good atmosphere
for the show.”
“Oh it was marvellous,
it was the closest really to ever
actually going to a football match,
it was that sort of reaction.
They were tremendously enthusiastic,
I mean they were quite ecstatic,
and they were singing along in English
as well, and doing ‘woh,
woh, woh, woh’,
all the chants and everything.”
Despite the early nervousness,
and the huge logistical undertaking,
this first South American tour was
a massive success, and left
a lasting impression on the band.
Queen would return in 1985 for one of
their most memorable
performances ever –
but that’s a story for another episode
of Queen The Greatest.
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