Live in Ukraine | |||||
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Live album by Queen + Paul Rodgers | |||||
Released | June 15, 2009 (CD & DVD) | ||||
Recorded | September 12, 2008 in Kharkiv | ||||
Genre | Rock | ||||
Length | 120:26 | ||||
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Parlophone (Europe) Hollywood (US) |
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Producer |
Joshua J Macrae Justin Shirley Smith Kris Fredriksson |
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Live in Ukraine is a double live album and video and also last release by British rock collaboration Queen + Paul Rodgers. It was recorded in September 2008 during the Rock the Cosmos Tour at Freedom Square in Kharkiv, Ukraine and was released on June 15, 2009. A companion DVD was also released.
Just weeks ahead of the start of the Rock the Cosmos Tour the band were approached to help Ukraine’s Olena Pinchuk AntiAids Foundation reach out to the youth of the country with this message: ‘Don’t Let AIDS Ruin Your Life”.
The venue they played was Kharkiv’s historic Freedom Square, a place so big that during World War II it was used to land planes. For the band and crew it meant “Everyone had to run very fast, very suddenly, but then most of the great and worthwhile things in your life are a little dangerous.”
Over 350,000 Ukrainians came to see them play and more than 10,000,000 (by conservative estimates) homes watched the show live on television. In all, more than 20,000,000 took part in what the band recall as “an unforgettable experience… one of those rare things in life you know you will never forget. A meeting in music, but also a coming together to fight a common enemy…”
A concert movie that captured live 12 September from Ukraine in Kharkiv's Freedom Square before 350,000 fans was produced by NCM Fathom and Disney’s Hollywood Records. It was shown in U.S. movie theatres one night only – Thursday, 6 November 2008.