Qween: Hippodrome 1973 Complete (3 Source) FLAC

Venue: Golders Green Hippodrome, London, UK
Date: 13. September 1973

OU Notes: This is a 3-source compilation of this great recording. This is the oldest Queen live recording which made it to the bootleg market. Two older recordings are rumoured - Ewell College 1971 and Marquee Club 1972, but it seems that Ewell College doesn't exist (the recording is actually a slowed-down version of the rock'n'roll medley coming from this concert), and the Marquee 72 recording was sold to Queen Productions (but they claim now that the don't have it), which means that this is the oldest Queen show we can get.
The performance is incredible. The sound quality is absolutely excellent, the only problem is that Freddie's vocal is mixed too low, it sounds like the band is standing right before you, but Freddie sings from another room. But still it's very enjoyable.
This show was bootleged many, many times, but never in complete form. The most complete version comes from the "Digital Queen Archives" bootleg called "Queen Will Be Crowned", which misses one line from the introduction, and has a couple of small few seconds cuts. When this recording was shared on QueenZone (http://www.queenzone.com), QZ user "stark" remastered it and shared it again.
This remaster was used by me in this project as "source 1".
My "source 2" was a different rebroadcast of this show, I used only one line from the intro from this source.
My "source 3" comes from the "Wardour" silver bootleg called "Pop Spectacular". This recording has much, much better sound quality then all other recodings, because it comes from a BBC Transcription disc. The bad thing is that it misses a big part of Son And Daughter, some speeches, See What A Fool I've Been and all songs after Liar.
I have used all 3 sources to create this compilation which is now for the very first time COMPLETE and every track has BEST AVAILABLE SOUND QUALITY.
The editing was done in Cool Edit Pro. The final wav file was split to single tracks, which were SBE fixed and encoded to FLAC with Trader's Little Helper. TLH was also used for FLAC fingerprints. I have added an Audiochecker log file.
Enjoy

Lineup :
Freddie Mercury - vocals
Roger Meddows-Taylor - percussion
Deacon John - bass
Brian May - guitar

Lineage :
Source 1: SBD > BBC radio > ? > "Queen Will Be Crowned" (Digital Queen Archives) silvers > EAC > WAV > FLAC (Flac Frontend level 8) > WAV > Har-bal > Wavelab > FLAC (Flac Frontend level 8) - marked as *
Source 2: SBD > BBC radio (unknown rebroadcast) > ? > CDR (x) - marked as **
Source 3: SBD > BBC Transcription disc > ? > "Pop Spectacular" (Wardour) silver - marked as ***

Tracklist :
1. Introduction (***, one line filled from **)
2. Procession (***)
3. Father To Son (***, gaps filled with *)
4. Son And Daughter (***, end from *)
5. Queen and synthesisers (*)
6. See What A Fool I've Been (*)
7. Ogre Battle (***)
8. Band Introduction (***)
9. Liar (***, end from *)
10. Jailhouse Rock (*)
11. Big Spender (*)
12. Bama Lama Bama Loo (*, end from ***)

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