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We'd done our support tour,
and then Mel Bush came to us.
He was a pretty top promoter at the time who had already done the Mott tour.
And he said, "l think you guys can headline the next tour."
And we were surprised.
l remember thinking, "Wow, that's very quick."
'Cause normally you would support a few acts and build a following,
and then you would go on your headline tour.
But he said, "No, l feel you can do it, you can sell out all these places."
And he gave us a big list.
"Newcastle City Hall, Manchester's Free Trade," or whatever.
All the sort of classic gigs that rock bands do.
And he said, "You can fill all these,
"and at the end, we're gonna do the Rainbow."
And we went, "Whoa!"
Because the Rainbow was almost like the pinnacle.
Not long before,
we'd seen David Bowie rise from obscurity to being able to play the Rainbow,
and it seemed like such a big deal.
And l remember thinking at the time,
"How amazing would it be if we could do this?"
And l think it was only a year later that we actually did that gig.
And live, of course, we very quickly became aware of the fact that you get one shot.
So you've got to deliver, you've got to really capture people.
You've got to move them. You've got to engage them.
And we used to say, "Deafen them and blind them,
"and leave them wanting more."
Good luck, everybody!
Oh, well.
We had so many mishaps on stage.
Power cuts were quite normal.
Tell you what, we'll just pose and you just look at us.
Anybody who'd like to pose with us is cordially invited onto the stage.
Come on.
It was nice, really,
because the audiences were so friendly to us that it really didn't matter.
They were very patient.
It's a great feeling when you realise that.
Because I think when you're starting off, you think, "What's going to happen
"if something goes wrong? lt's all gonna go pear-shaped."
But, actually, you've got a great audience,
and you've got a band who knows what it's doing.
And no matter what happens, you can normally deal with it in some way.
Right now we'd like to do some rock and roll à la Queen.
Tell you what, this is a number from the Sheer Heart Attack album,
Stone Cold Crazy.
One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four.
Our first album had done very well in Japan.
The old cliché, big in Japan.
So we were booked to do a tour there.
We arrived in Japan and it resembled what we'd known as Beatlemania.
There really were thousands of kids.
And it was bedlam from then on.
All hanging out in the hotels, hiding behind curtains, in the corridors.
And everywhere we went, we got followed.
We're completely overwhelmed by what's happened since we came here.
It's never happened to us in any other countries,
in this kind of style.
I just want to say thanks to everybody for being so great.
We feel really at home. Thanks for the presents.
And thanks for making such a noise at the concert,
and giving us such a great time.
I think we're going to move to Japan, by the way, all right?
I'd just like to say thank you, everybody, for coming to see us.
And we're just having a really nice time here.
It's great fun.
I'd like to say thank you very much for a great welcome in Japan.
And we really enjoyed our first concert at the Budokan.
Hello, folks.
And we hope to see you again very soon.
Hello, boys and girls.
It's very nice to be in Japan.
Thank you very much for the reception and the amazing welcome.
And from me and the boys from Queen, thank you very much.
Sayonara.
It was a nice experience,
and I still remember the first time we played in the Budokan hall in Tokyo.
I mean, the noise was just enormous
because they sat all the seats behind you as well.
And when we walked on it was all screaming and throwing presents on the stage. �