10. It’s A Hard Life (Queen-Live In Brussels: 8/24/1984)

I love all the requests I’m getting--I truly do: Especially awesome concerts like this one: This is the first show of The Works Tour--meaning Freddie is in excellent vocal shape. He NAILS songs like “Seven Seas Of Rhye,“ “It’s A Hard Life,“ and “I Want To Break Free.“ The gig is complete (albeit with a few cuts), and has fairly good audio quality! Now, more on Freddie’s voice... 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 1983--while 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