North American 1982 tour photo discoveries
Feb 23, 2022 3:15:35 GMT
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Post by Mustapha Ibrahim on Feb 23, 2022 3:15:35 GMT
Over on the Discord, many other people (such as littlequeenie97 and beyondthemoon ) and I have discovered many things about three certain tour legs: the North American "Hot Space" tour, the Japanese "Hot Space" tour, and the Japanese "Jazz" tour. This thread is for the North American "Hot Space tour from July 21 to September 15, 1982. To see the photos we currently have, check out this doc and this page (made by yours truly).
Note: In this thread, I'm going to be listing if anything new has been discovered (as in a new set of images or a discovery of a band member's outfit for a certain show). I don't want to clog up the posts, so I'll only add images if I think they're important.
[July 21, 1982] Montreal, QC, Canada; Montreal Forum
New images were found, but another important note is that the set on queenlive.ca said to be from August 2 has photos from this show. This is clear as there is one shot with Freddie in the yellow tank top and as Freddie has different wristbands. The pics that do come from this show were the ones taken from the left side of the stage. If you look close enough, Freddie actually has two different pairs of pants. Compare here: arrows across the sides and arrows only on the front.
Pictures:
[July 23, 1982] Boston, MA, USA; Boston Garden
New sets of images. There's a new color set from Ron Rudy.
[July 24, 1982] Philadelphia, PA, USA; Spectrum
A very interesting discovery here, plus a couple new pics. Pictures with Freddie wearing his yellow tank top were thought to be from Montreal, but Freddie has the pants where the arrows cross around the sides of his legs. Something that helped solve this mystery was this picture supposedly taken by Koh Hasebe. Darren1379 later said it was taken by Neal Preston instead, as it was credited to him in an official book. Of course, we were all skeptical as the only two jackets that we knew he wore on the tour were the red and white one. But we noticed that Freddie is wearing the thin red/white/red wristband in Neal Preston's photos.
The thin stripe wristband was worn early on in the tour, like in New York. There's a medium stripe worn on the later part of tour, like in Oakland. There is also a rarer red/white/red wristband: one with a thick stripe. As far as we know, it was only worn during at least 3 shows: Boston, Richfield, and an unknown night.
We had known of four shows where Freddie wore the thin stripe wristband: Montreal, Philadelphia, 1st New York, and 1st Toronto. We had Freddie's shirt accounted for at all mentioned besides Philadelphia. Two things were similar between the Neal Preston photos and the Scott Weiner photos on Alamy. Freddie had the same wristband and pants. We weren't sure if John's shirt color counted, since Scott Weiner has no color shots of John. The shots are unlikely to come from any later shows, so Philadelphia was our only option.
Pictures:
[July 25, 1982] Landover, MD, USA; Capital Centre
A new set from this show. From this new set, we now know that Freddie wore the Milton Keynes top with the red jacket.
Pictures:
[July 27, 1982] New York, NY, USA; Madison Square Garden
Holy moly, there were tons and tons and tons of new photos from this show. Various photos from different photographers, a big set from Bill Tompkins, a huge set from Larry Marano, and an even huger set from Roger Stultz Sr. created an enormous page for all of the photos from this show. There are about 180 photos that are just from this show! See it for yourself in the doc.
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Note: In this thread, I'm going to be listing if anything new has been discovered (as in a new set of images or a discovery of a band member's outfit for a certain show). I don't want to clog up the posts, so I'll only add images if I think they're important.
[July 21, 1982] Montreal, QC, Canada; Montreal Forum
New images were found, but another important note is that the set on queenlive.ca said to be from August 2 has photos from this show. This is clear as there is one shot with Freddie in the yellow tank top and as Freddie has different wristbands. The pics that do come from this show were the ones taken from the left side of the stage. If you look close enough, Freddie actually has two different pairs of pants. Compare here: arrows across the sides and arrows only on the front.
Pictures:
[July 23, 1982] Boston, MA, USA; Boston Garden
New sets of images. There's a new color set from Ron Rudy.
[July 24, 1982] Philadelphia, PA, USA; Spectrum
A very interesting discovery here, plus a couple new pics. Pictures with Freddie wearing his yellow tank top were thought to be from Montreal, but Freddie has the pants where the arrows cross around the sides of his legs. Something that helped solve this mystery was this picture supposedly taken by Koh Hasebe. Darren1379 later said it was taken by Neal Preston instead, as it was credited to him in an official book. Of course, we were all skeptical as the only two jackets that we knew he wore on the tour were the red and white one. But we noticed that Freddie is wearing the thin red/white/red wristband in Neal Preston's photos.
The thin stripe wristband was worn early on in the tour, like in New York. There's a medium stripe worn on the later part of tour, like in Oakland. There is also a rarer red/white/red wristband: one with a thick stripe. As far as we know, it was only worn during at least 3 shows: Boston, Richfield, and an unknown night.
We had known of four shows where Freddie wore the thin stripe wristband: Montreal, Philadelphia, 1st New York, and 1st Toronto. We had Freddie's shirt accounted for at all mentioned besides Philadelphia. Two things were similar between the Neal Preston photos and the Scott Weiner photos on Alamy. Freddie had the same wristband and pants. We weren't sure if John's shirt color counted, since Scott Weiner has no color shots of John. The shots are unlikely to come from any later shows, so Philadelphia was our only option.
Pictures:
[July 25, 1982] Landover, MD, USA; Capital Centre
A new set from this show. From this new set, we now know that Freddie wore the Milton Keynes top with the red jacket.
Pictures:
[July 27, 1982] New York, NY, USA; Madison Square Garden
Holy moly, there were tons and tons and tons of new photos from this show. Various photos from different photographers, a big set from Bill Tompkins, a huge set from Larry Marano, and an even huger set from Roger Stultz Sr. created an enormous page for all of the photos from this show. There are about 180 photos that are just from this show! See it for yourself in the doc.
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