{"product_id":"queen-live-at-the-rainbow","title":"LIVE AT THE RAINBOW","description":"Personnel: Freddie Mercury (vocals, piano); Brian May (guitars, background vocals); John Deacon (bass guitar, background vocals); Roger Taylor (drums, background vocals).\nRecording information: The Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, North London, Engla.\nPhotographers: Ian Dickson; Douglas Puddifoot; Jill Furmanovsky; Richard Gray ; Johnny Dewe Mathews ; Mike Putland.\nAllegedly planned for an official release back in 1974 or 1975 but scrapped by the creation of A Night at the Opera, Live at the Rainbow '74 fills in part of Queen's history: it is the first official live album to capture the band at their pre-Night at the Opera fury. The brief 1989 release, At the Beeb, touched upon the same territory, capturing their two sessions from 1973, but this is something else, a full concert -- and in the case of the double-CD, quadruple vinyl, two full concerts -- that showcases the band's rapidly increasing range, not to mention their brute force. Soon they'd trade winding, fantastical detours for sculpted pomp -- something evident both in composition and in Brian May's guitar solos, which are so lengthy here they're indexed as their own track within the middle of a song -- but here they still feel untrammeled, as if they could stray off the reservation at any second. That they remain relatively focused is a testament to their increasing musicality; they may not control all of their instincts but there's an appeal in hearing a band testing their limits on the verge of becoming great. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine","brand":"Queen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44582600540393,"sku":"2CUTOU-RN9L-00","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/queen-live-at-the-rainbow_SOkNp_bd669a28-b80f-4552-9857-413f5ed58583.jpg?v=1759118327","url":"https:\/\/www.vibinvinyl.com\/products\/queen-live-at-the-rainbow","provider":"Vibin' Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}