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''A Night at the Odeon – Hammersmith 1975'' is a live album by British rock band Queen. The album is the first official release of the band's Christmas Eve performance at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1975, taped by the BBC. The show was broadcast on BBC2 and BBC Radio 1, and included one of the first live performances of "Bohemian Rhapsody". It had been one of the band's most popular bootlegs. ==Background== The 24 December 1975 gig at the Hammersmith Odeon was the final date of Queen's UK tour in support of the album ''A Night At The Opera'', which had been released a few weeks previously, and had already gone platinum. The single "Bohemian Rhapsody", was in the middle of its 9-week run at number one in the UK charts at the time of the gig, which was one of the first times the song was played live.〔 Queen had already played four shows at the Odeon earlier during the tour and received positive reviews in the press, with ''Sounds'' saying "everything about them says that they are more important than any other band you've heard".〔 The gig was advertised in ''Melody Maker'' as "Britain’s most regal band awaits your presence..." and all 5,000 tickets sold out.〔 Guitarist Brian May later recalled the gig was special because it was the first time they had ever played an entire show live for television. Frontman Freddie Mercury played a white Bechstein grand piano imported especially for the gig, and wore white and black catsuits, changing costume halfway through the show.〔 Though ''A Night at the Opera'' was in the charts at the time of show, the band's setlist mainly drew from earlier songs that worked well on stage, including May's solo guitar spot in the middle of the show, and a medley of old rock'n'roll songs towards the end. The band only played the ballad section of "Bohemian Rhapsody" as part of a medley with older material, and the only other ''Opera'' track was "God Save The Queen" played on tape at the very end of the show.〔 The show was broadcast on BBC2 as part of the music programme ''The Old Grey Whistle Test'' with the audio also broadcast on BBC Radio 1. Queen had appeared on the show several times previously when studio tracks were played alongside custom music videos.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Old Grey Whistle Test 40 )〕 ''Whistle Test'' presenter Bob Harris introduced the band onstage and later recalled that Queen "were in party mood at the Hammersmith Odeon that night". Unfortunately, the video cameras were packed away before the group's second encore, so only the audio of "Seven Seas of Rhye" and "See What A Fool I've Been" were recorded. Because of its high-quality recording and filming, and nationwide television and radio broadcast, the gig had become the most popular bootleg recording of Queen.〔 Many of the songs in the band's Hammersmith set were dropped on later tours, and did not appear on official live albums such as ''Live Killers'' and ''Live At Wembley '86''.〔 The original multi-track tapes of the show were believed to be lost, before being recovered in 2009 and restored by Queen sound engineers Justin Shirley-Smith, Kris Fredriksson, and Josh Macrae. A 50-minute performance of the show was broadcast that year, again on BBC2.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hammersmith 75 on BBC )〕 In 2011, a few of the tracks from this gig were officially released elsewhere as bonus tracks on reissues of Queen's studio albums, such as "White Queen" on Universal Records' reissue of ''Queen II'', and "Ogre Battle" on the iTunes version. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Night at the Odeon - Hammersmith 1975」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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