Live vs. Overdubs - Magic Tour (Inspired by Chinwonder2)

Just wanted to say that not all edits that I pointed out are considered like overdubs by me. There are obviously other edits like pitch-correction, mixing edits etc... I'm just going by the rules established by Chin for his videos. Also I try to listen to as much audio recordings as I can (ranging from soundboards, audience recordings etc...), and if there are vocals that are unheard on the unofficial material I've listened to, I usually assume that vocals may have been taken from another concert and/or overdubbed. Sadly, since there's no way I can be 100% correct because of having no way (like basically all of us) to listen to concert multi-tracks, I can only do assumptions.

Also sorry if it looks like I'm writing a book, as I wanted to clarify some things, if they weren't clear enough. I still hope that you like what you're seeing so far, and are looking forward to what I have in store.

- Works Of Magic

Nice! I personally think Live Aid should just be part of the first video, since it's in-between the Works and the Magic eras

I enjoyed the Live Magic analysis in the first post. One of my favourite live albums. I know I'm in the minority there.

Anyway, an observation: The audience singing bit in AOBTD might be the only instance in the Queendom of something actually being in tune on the audience recording and out of tune on the final album

Hey! I would mention in your video that the vocoders have been lowered in the official mix (most notably WATC in Mannheim, I'm not sure about Wembley, Budapest and Knebworth). Doesn't need to be a whole thing, just a little sentence would probably be enough, so the whole thing doesn't get too long

Hi everyone. It's been a while since I've posted anything here, hasn't it?

Just wanted to share you all a bit of an update regarding the video. Originally, I wanted this video to analyze the Works and Magic Tour official releases, but since Chin had his video on Rio, Yoyogi and Live Aid ready to be uploaded, before getting his two copyright claims on his channel, which lead the the privatization of all his videos, I decided to rework the video to only focus on the Magic Tour.

Furthermore, I've also decided, in order to keep the video available for as long as possible, to split the videos in two parts. I even made thumbnails for each of them.

funny, I was just thinking about this

and my question is this; when were the overdubs for Wembley and Budapest recorded? Does anyone know / have any proof of when it happened?

no idea!

perhaps? any educated guess as to what gigs?

imo, some of the Wembley show sounds like studio overdbubs, but I'd be deligheted if they are flown in from other gigs. That means more gigs must be available in the archive

Well, from my knowledge, they were recorded in between September and November 1986, for Live Magic's release. It's not impossible to think they may have recorded most if not all vocal and instrumental overdubs at that time, as some of them have been present since this release. Plus, Freddie's tone on these overdubs is so similar to what would be present on the Wembley laserdisc released four years later, that it would be crazy if the overdubs for the at the time new songs from Wembley were recorded after the Live Magic sessions.

They did the remix/re-recording of Pain/Pleasure after the tour, and I believe they were in the studio working on the album over three days in November. I can’t remember if Brian said anything else about being in the studio in one of his fan club letters, so I might be forgetting something, but there were definitely a few sessions after the Magic tour.

Good work so far, looking forward to seeing the full version.

I do have one pedantic issue to raise. At points in the part 1 preview 2 (e.g. 3:08), the text refers to “2012 mix - Magic Years Documentary”. I presume this either means one of the 3 VHS “Magic Years” documentaries from the late 1980s, or the 2012 documentary “A Magic Year” (singular) from the Budapest Blu-ray (presumably also on the DVD)?