YOUNG NOBLES OF ROCK 

 2 CD 

Label: Tarantura TCDQ 1-1, 2
Country: Japan
Released: August 2007. Re-released in March 2009, using black background on the cover. Re-released also in July 2013. This time with red background on the cover. Re-release again in March 2017 with blue background cover. Re-released again in January 2019.  All by Tarantura label.
Recorded: Budokan Hall, Tokyo  Japan  May 1st. 1975.
Sound: Excellent audience recording.
Comments:  A new, third audience recording from the May 1st Budokan show. Whereas the other two tapes are fair to good mono recordings, this is in superb, excellent three dimensional stereo. It's one of the best audience recording from the early Queen to surface. And of course a great show too.
This concert has been released before on vinyl (incomplete), and on 2cd's 'First Live Attack'. But, from other tape souces.


This 2 cd has been re-released (or re-pressed) 4 times by Tarantura label. The different is the background color on cover.
1st. re-release was out in March 2009. 2nd. re-release was released in July 2013. 3rd. re-release was released in March 2017. 4th. re-release was released in January 2019.
The only different between all this releasing's, is the background color used on the cover.
Roots: Original bootleg, 'new' tape source. First time this tape is released. Audience recorded by Mr. Peach.
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Front cover 1st. edition.

 Intro: Procession (tape)
 Now I'm Here
 Ogre Battle
 Great King Rat
 White Queen
 Flick Of The Wrist ~
 Stone Cold Crazy
(ending)
 Hangman
 Doing All Right
 Medley: In The Lap Of The Gods
               Killer Queen
               The March Of The Black Queen     
               Bring Back That Leroy Brown
 Son And Daughter (inc. "Brian solo")   
 Keep Yourself Alive
 Seven Seas Of Rhye
 Stone Cold Crazy
 Liar
 In The Lap Of The Gods...revisited
 Big Spender
 Modern Times Rock 'n Roll
 Medley: Jailhouse Rock
               Shake Rattle And Roll
               Stupid Cupid
               Be Bop A Lula 
               Jailhouse Rock
  (reprise)
 See What A Fool I've Been
 God Save The Queen...
(tape)

       
 2nd. edition March 2009   3rd. edition July 2013   4th. edition March 2017   Back cover of 4th. edition. 
   
 
     
5th. edition January 2019  Back cover of 5th. edition.  Cd's of 5th. edition. 

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Review by Collectors Music Review 

Young Nobles Of Rock is the very first Queen release on the prolific and enduring Tarantura label.  This title contains a new tape source for Queen’s May 1, 1975 show at the Budokan in Tokyo.  Several older sources exist with the first appearing on a rare Japanese vinyl titled Kimono My Place Live (Marc TC-75122) released in 1976 and copied on Stunning Live In Tokyo on Rodan Records.  This tape source is very good but incomplete, covering only forty-minutes of the two hour show and containing “Procession,” “Now I'm Here,” “Great King Rat,” “Killer Queen,” “Seven Seas Of Rhye,” “Hangman (Shag Out),” “In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited,” “See What A Fool I've Been,” and “God Save The Queen.”  Three songs from this source, “Jailhouse Rock,” “See What A Fool I’ve Been,” and “God Save The Queen” was released on compact disc on Great King Hangman in 2000 along with a fragment from Queen's April 19 show at the Budokan.  A second complete audience recording was used for First Live Attack (Private Masters PM-007/008).  The sound quality of this is fair to good, very distant with the screams of the girls in the audience frequently drowning out the music.  Private Masters packaged this in a slimline double jewel case with a replica of the concert ticket.  Wardour released Killing Me Softy (Wardour-004) in 2004 and contains a better sounding mono recording.  “Now I’m Here” and “Ogre Battle” are incomplete and the source from First Live Attack was used to complete the songs.  The concert was also professionally videotaped and three songs, “Now I'm Here,” “Killer Queen, and “In The Lap Of The Gods… Revisited” were broadcast on television.

 

The new tape source found on the Tarantura release is a virtually complete stereo audience recording produced by "Song Brothers."  He was very close to the stage and was able to capture the dynamics of the performance in detail making this one of the very best audience recordings for the early Queen.  This is the final live show on the Sheer Heart Attack and the end of their first very successful visit to Japan.  “Killer Queen” was number one on the charts and the band played eight sold out shows throughout the country.  The tape begins when the lights go down and records the entire taped introduction “Procession” which leads directly with their travelogue “Now I’m Here.”  Freddie sounds a tad self-conscious afterwards as he speaks to the audience in Japanese.  “It looks like we’re gonna have some fun tonight.”  After the live staple “Ogre Battle,” the band play “Great King Rat,” a real rarity.  Except for the BBC sessions, there are only a handful of early live references to this song including the April 21st, 1974 New Orleans and the May 4th 1974 Waterbury, Connecticut tapes.  It would be resurrected ten years for the Works tour, but it is great to have such a great sounding recording.  “White Queen (As It Began),” a song described Innuendoes author Sylv as pure poetry, emotion, and the beginning and end of “March Of The Black Queen” in the story of Lily and the Phoenix, follows and features a lyrical guitar solo from May.

 

“We’re gonna do a number we haven’t done in a long long while.  But as this is our last show on the world tour, it’s very nice to end it in Tokyo, and we’ll do it especially for you” is Freddie’s introduction to the still unreleased song “Hangman.”  This again appears on a small number of early tapes but not in this sound quality.  A studio recording has been rumored to exists, but have been constantly denied by the band and such a recording has never surfaced.  After “Doing All Right” the band play a medley of the songs mostly from the last two albums.  The “early medley” first appeared about this time and is a feature of the set they would retain until their final tour.  Three songs from Sheer Heart Attack are included beginning with “In The Lap Of The Gods.”  There are few live recordings of this song since it was dropped after this show, never to return again.  The studio recording relies upon the treated, slowed down vocals which are absent from the stage version.  “Killer Queen” follows and despite being their biggest hit at the time isn’t played complete, ending after the guitar solo with the final verse dropped.  “The March Of The Black Queen” is simply the final heavy section (“I rule with my left hand / I rule with my right / I’m king of all darkness / I’m Queen of the night”) and is segued with an instrumental reduction of the fun track “Bring Back That Leroy Brown.” 

 

The first disc ends with an extended version of “Son And Daughter.”  The early showcase for May’s solo, he plays for ten minutes and includes a reference to “Sakura Sakura” in the middle.  “Keep Yourself Alive” contains a short drum solo by Roger, who afterwards introduces Freddie Mercury as “Fredrick” before “Seven Seas Of Rhye.”  “In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited” is the last song of the set.  With its apocalyptic chorus and communal spirit, it remains one of their most effective closers which would be dropped in the future only to reappear on their last tour as part of the early medley.  This is followed by two minutes of audience applause as they wait for the encores.  The mc speaks in Japanese over the PA system, telling the crowd to put out the candles.  The first encore begins with “Big Spender” and includes Taylor’s Black Sabbath inspired “Modern Times Rock And Roll” in an undifferentiated medley with the oldies.  None of the tunes lasts for more than a minute and a half and are played with the same furious tempo, but it’s great fun to hear Freddie work the crowd as the show reaches the two-hour mark.  The final song of this long show is a live performance of “See What A Fool I’ve Been,” one of Queen’s rare blues songs.  Young Nobles Of Rock is packaged in a cardboard gatefold sleeve and is limited to one hundred un-numbered copies.  It is hoped there are more Queen tapes in the cache of tapes being issued by Tarantura.  But this stands as the best sounding early tape in existence and is the most important Queen release of the year so far.  (GS)   


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