Hungarian Rhapsody: QUEEN Live In Budapest Wins Bronze Box Office Award
October 23, 2013, 11 years ago
Hungarian Rhapsody: QUEEN Live In Budapest has won a Bronze Box Office Award in recognition of achieving over 100,000 worldwide cinema admissions at the first Event Cinema Association Networking Event.
As part of the hugely successful 1986 Magic Tour that, poignantly, was the last to be played by the band with FREDDIE MERCURY, Queen were for the first time able to include Hungary on the tour schedule. With three years to go before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this was the largest concert ever staged at the Népstadion, Budapest, and the first Western Rock Concert staged in a stadium behind the then Iron Curtain. It was of such significance to the Hungarian authorities and film industry that a group of the country’s top film cameramen and technicians were brought together to film it for posterity.
Staged for 80,000 ecstatic fans, the concert set includes favorite hits like 'Bohemian Rhapsody', 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love', 'I Want To Break Free', and 'We Are The Champions'.
