Munich

We arrived at the queue around 12.30 to find Vern, Julie, Jens, Charlie plus one person from Germany and one from Argentina. It was a very quiet few hours.

At around 3.30, the queue was a bit busier and we got moved back. We had been chatting to a mad German guy who was there in case his ex girlfriend was queuing. He managed to sneak inside the venue and stayed hiding in the toilets until the soundcheck started. He tried to sneak out to watch it but someone spotted him and threw him out! It turns out he wrote ‘BRAIN RULES’ across his chest during the show and Spike Edney took a photo of him from the stage and published it in an SAS Band newsletter (see page 5). We Believe and Runaway were played at the soundcheck.

Terry joined the queue about 6.30 and said that the queue was still quite small compared to some of the other concerts.

They decided to open 3 doors on each side. Someone told me to go down to stairs near the candy store when I got inside and in the mad panic of running in and going down 2 flights of stairs, I suddenly saw the candy store and knew what to do! We stood at the front of catwalk, slightly to the right of the centre!

A Kind of Magic was back!!! And sung by Roger whilst drumming at the end of the catwalk! I almost fainted! What a great addition to the show!

The band had been to Oktoberfest the day before and they all came on for ’39 wearing German hats and Brian had a toy which played a funny song. He held it up to the microphone to play it and you can hear it on the download of the song from QOL! The band looked like they were having great fun and Brian smiled at us during ’39 and I’m In Love With My Car! Paul waved at me during Say It’s Not True. We were all swaying and Roger smiled at us! At the end of Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Paul wanted to give me his plectrum but he couldn’t reach so I held out my hands and he threw it right into my hands!

Brilliant gig with a great fun atmosphere!

The set list was:

Surfs Up… School’s Out
Tie Your Mother Down
Fat Bottomed Girls
Another One Bites The Dust
I Want It All
I Want To Break Free
C-lebrity
Seagull
Love Of My Life
39
Electric Bass Solo
Drum Solo
I’m In Love With My Car
A Kind Of Magic
Say It’s Not True
Bad Company
Feel Like Making Love
Guitar Solo
Bijou
Last Horizon
Radio Ga Ga
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
The Show Must Go On
Bohemian Rhapsody
Cosmos Rockin’
All Right Now
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
God Save The Queen