#live killers

40 years ago, on June 22, 1979, Queen released their first live album. Live Killers rose to 3rd place on the UK charts, gaining gold status.

Album songs taken from different concerts of the European tour of Jazz, held from January to March 1979. Individual tracks don’t sound in the original live performance: they either consist of fragments from different concerts (up to three or four per song) or contain a studio overlay.

The album didn’t include a few songs of the standard track list of European concerts: Somebody To Love, it’s Late, If You can’t Beat Them and Fat Bottomed Girls.

The live version of Love of My Life, which became the hallmark of all subsequent concerts of the group up to the present day, was released a single just before the album (Studio recording is not released even on the b-sides of singles).

Not having achieved much success in the UK charts, this live LOML, however, became the No. 1 hit in Brazil and Argentina (in the charts of the latter lasted a year) after Queen’s tour of Latin America in 1981.

A faster version of We Will Rock You from the beginning of the concert was also released as a single in the US and Japan.