Queen: Live in Rio 1985

4:3 aspect; ropey sound; awful packaging; shaky camera work; edited highlights; annoying labelling of video distributor's logo and respective song titles; no extras . . . . . apart from all this tosh an interesting watch.

Freddie is as entertaining as ever, so much so that the Brazilian cameramen have seemingly forgotten about the other three members of the band. Indeed, bass player John Deacon is barely shown!

Dodgy highlights - Freddie dancing or strutting awkwardly during Now I'm Here, forgetting the words of Radio Ga Ga and wearing a long sweat-drenched mullet wig for It's a Hard Life; We Will Rock You and Champions. Also, Fred's voice almost packs up all together during Break Free and offers such a poor rendition of this number that he would certainly have been booed off Pop Idol.

Priceless - Freddie shakes his head in disgust as Brian May misses his cue on Love of My Life.

Moments of class - Love of my Life (sans May mess-up) - a sing-a-long with 250,000 people; soaring vocals on Liar and nostalgia during Bo Rhap and Keep Yourself Alive.

All in all well worth a glance for Queen-mad fans who are fed up with rare releases from the remaining two working members of Queen.

The sound is horrible (didn't sound like stereo) and it seems that the people that edited the video have forgotten that John Deacon is a member of Queen. In other words, there was hardly any footage of him. Another bad point was that during the whole concert, on the top left hand corner of the screen there was some dumb MP logo (they're the ones that made the DVD). Bad quailty. Buy it only if you're a die hard Queen fan AND find it for really cheap.