Legendary rock band Queen is continuing to look back at their self-titled debut album with a new video of a performance from the beginning of their career. The band just shared a clip of them performing “Liar,” the second single from that album, live at the Rainbow Theater in London in 1974. The video sees lead singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, bassist John Deacon, and drummer Roger Taylor performing the glam rock track in front of a giddy, packed crowd, offering an early look at a band that would become one of the most successful and beloved in the world.
Their debut album, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, was reissued earlier this year with a super-sized tracklist. The six-CD edition features 63 tracks and 43 new mixes and includes live demos and unheard recordings in addition to its original tracklist. “All the performances are exactly as they originally appeared in 1973, but every instrument has been revisited to produce the ‘live’ ambient sounds we would have liked to use originally,” May says of the new reissue. “The result is Queen as it would have sounded with today’s knowledge and technology – a first. Queen I is the debut album we always dreamed of bringing to you.”
Queen has also supported the reissue of this with the return of their limited series Queen: The Greatest, which looks at the band’s beginning and the recording of this 1973 debut. The most recent video in the series focused on the release of “The Night Come Down” from the recent box set and shows May demonstrating how the song’s sound came together, and recalling how the song was partially inspired by being a bit depressed over being bad at relationships. Other editions of The Greatest series have focused on some of the band’s most iconic live performances and their collaborations with Adam Lambert.
