Queen Live Performances - 1990s

1990s

Queen did not perform any concerts in the nineties with their original lineup. After the death of Freddie Mercury in November 1991, the next performance was at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in April 1992 at Wembley Stadium. The three remaining members (in one of the very, very few concerts they played together after Mercury's death) and a host of special guests staged a lengthy and emotional show billed as the Concert For AIDS Awareness (as well as Concert for Life) that was televised worldwide. Due to various complications, the video, and then DVD, of the concert would be released quite sometime afterwards. One track from the concert appeared on the Greatest Hits III album, namely "Somebody to Love", and it should also be mentioned here that some tracks have been released by the artists (i.e. their particular performance) under their own name e.g. George Michael, Lisa Stansfield.

May recorded two studio albums in the nineties as well as forming his own band, called The Brian May Band which included Cozy Powell and Spike Edney, that went on tour after their releases. The band's first live performances were supporting Guns N' Roses in 1993 on some legs of their world tour and the group also performed an abbreviated version of the classic Queen track "Tie Your Mother Down", with a guest appearance by Slash, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. This version was released as the B-side of a single shortly thereafter. The band then made a small headlining world tour and one show from London was subsequently released on both CD and DVD – Live At The Brixton Academy.

Made in Heaven, released in 1995, was the last studio album by the band, and "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)", which appeared on the "Queen Rocks" compilation album in 1997, was the final song to feature John Deacon. However the final occasion where all remaining members of Queen performed on stage was in January 1997 at Paris in France for the world premiere of Bejart Ballet For Life. Joining the surviving trio were Spike Edney on keyboards/backing-vocals and Elton John who sang lead vocals. They only performed one song, namely "The Show Must Go On" which was one of the two songs they had performed together at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, and this was the last reported appearance of John Deacon on stage. The song also appears on the Greatest Hits III album.