Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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Listen to the full remastered/matrixed show here:
youtu.be/SBB4hygaXSc

This year marks 45 years since Queen's legendary final night in Argentina 🌞 It's been quoted on multiple occasions by band members and road crew as being one of their all-time best nights on stage 🙌 The atmosphere is up there with any other audience Queen ever had, and the performance is a stunning reflection of that. The attendance is slightly higher than the previous two Buenos Aires shows, due to more people being allowed on the football field. The excitement reaches its peak when Freddie introduces a special guest before Another One Bites The Dust - local hero and international football titan, Diego Maradona ⚽ He gives a few words to the crowd, before handing it back over to the band.

We've been blessed with multiple audio sources over the years, such as recordings from local radio broadcasts and an awesome audience tape. All sources are incomplete in some fashion, most notably the audience recording. The taper made strategic pauses throughout, to ensure they had enough tape to last 'til the end. Their plan worked to perfection, as it finally cuts out towards the end of We Are The Champions. Precise cuts were made at the end of almost every song, sometimes lasting until after the next song has already started. Additionally, the back-half of Save Me and the majority of Now I'm Here were omitted from the recording. But for the 86 minutes or so that WAS captured, it's been the go-to source for this show for many years! The quality is great, helped by the fact it was recorded pretty close to the stage 👌

Combined, the radio broadcast sources cover the entire show, apart from the beginning of Keep Yourself Alive. 'AM' was Argentina's primary radio format at the time, which wasn't nearly as capable as 'FM' radio would become. As a result, the quality varies considerably between sources. Musically, the mix itself was excellent! Sounds like it could've been pulled directly from the soundboard. One unfortunate addition to the mix was a delayed audience mic (otherwise referred to as slapback echo). For a good chunk of the show, this isn't an issue as it was turned down during a lot of the songs. But from roughly the 2nd half of the show onwards, it would creep higher into the mix on certain songs. The worst offenders are Love Of My Life, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Another One Bites The Dust and We Will Rock You.

Myself and 'historicman' had our work cut out for us with this project! Given the source material, as great as the potential was, it simply was never going to sound perfect. But we've done our best to compile the best elements to create a, dare I say, DEFINITIVE version of the show (as of 2026).

As epic as the audience recording is on its own, the crowd are so electric that it can be difficult to hear the band at times. I had the idea of integrating the higher frequencies from this tape, to essentially enhance the sound of the radio broadcast. The best AM source barely reaches past 7kHz of detail, where as the audience recording comfortably reaches over 10kHz. That's a considerable improvement!