News of the World Tour

News of the World Tour
Queen concert chronology
World tour by Queen

Associated album	News of the World
Start date	6 October 1977
End date	13 May 1978
Legs	2
No. of shows	26 in North America 21 in Europe 46 in Total
A Day at the Races Tour (1977) News of the World Tour (1977-78) Jazz Tour (1978-79)

The News of the World Tour was a concert tour by the British rock band Queen, and supported their successful 1977 album News of the World.

This tour was the first to use the songs We Will Rock You, We Are the Champions and Love of My Life, three of the famous anthems that helped make Queen well known for their concerts. It was also the first time the band toured without an opening act.

In the book The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience, novelist Tracy Chevalier recalls attending one of this tour's concerts at the age of 15:

The band wisely didn't dare attempt to reproduce in its entirety the long, baroque confection that is Bohemian Rhapsody. For the infamous operatic middle section, the band members left the stage as the studio recording played. Freddie and Brian then changed costume, and, at the word "Beelzebub", all four men popped out of a door in the stage floor and joined live again for the heavy metal section, fireworks going off, dry ice pouring out, everyone going berserk, me in tears of excitement. It was one of the best live moments I've ever witnessed. Indeed, I was spoiled by seeing Queen play live before anyone else; for sheer exuberant theatricality, no one else has come close.

Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times called this concert tour the band's "most spectacularly staged and finely honed show yet".

One of the shows on the North American leg at The Summit in Houston, Texas was filmed and is widely available among fans. The Houston concert is considered one of their best bootleg recordings. Also, that show saw the band not play "Spread Your Wings" and was the one show where Brian May did his guitar solo spot in normal tuning as the solo would segue into "Now I'm Here" instead of "The Prophet's Song (Reprise)". Spread Your Wings was played after Your My Best Friend, as one can see an edit on the video. Queen live by Greg Brooks states Spread Your wings was played at this concert.

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