10. Its A Hard Life ( Queen Live In Brussels: 8, 24, 1984)

I love all the requests I m gettingI truly do: Especially awesome concerts like this one: This is the first show of The Works Tourmeaning Freddie is in excellent vocal shape. He NAILS songs like Seven Seas Of Rhye, It s A Hard Life, and I Want To Break The gig is complete (albeit with a few cuts), and has fairly good audio quality Now, more on Freddie s Beginning in 1980, Freddie had started smoking cigarettes to give his voice a huskier quality. The full effect of his smoking habit is heard for the first time on this tour (it started as early as 1983while recording with Michael Jackson, and recording songs for The Works and Mr. Bad Guy ). Freddie s voice has a more deeper and raspier quality to it: While it makes him sound EXTREMELY powerful in his lower and middle ranges, his higher range has lost sweetness and clarity to it. Plus, the vocal nodule problem has worsened (the later Hot Space tour gigs did that damage). To put in perspective, his higher notes (G4 and up) a