Roger cuts his foot after missing a step while getting off the stage. He removes the kimono to reveal hot pants! The female fans, making up more than half of the audience, are delighted by this sexy appearance. In the encore, Freddie appears in a kimono, wearing it like a gown. The setlist changes a bit to include Death on Two Legs in the middle of The Prophet’s Song. This 1976 tour started on January 27th in North America. The band arrives at 3 pm for a soundcheck. The guys head to the popular disco BYBLOS in Akasaka, but they couldn’t get in because it was too full, so they go to another disco, MUGEN, on a different level in the same building. Freddie buys 10 kimono and obi at the International Arcade in Yurakucho, John buys a hanging scroll, and Roger and Brian buy Japan-made cameras. They also do a photoshoot in the garden grounds of the Hotel Pacific Tokyo.Īfter the photo shoot, the band goes out shopping. The band spends the afternoon with newspaper, magazine, TV, and radio engagements. The band heads to the Hotel Pacific Tokyo in Shinagawa. Even the usually mild-mannered Brian is indignant, having one of his shoes and a pendant torn off of him. 20 police officers and 10 Security Police surround the band but there are too many fans and the group cannot advance. Like the previous year, they are met with a large crowd (of about 500), but this time the back exit they escaped from last year was full of fans too, so they attempt the regular exit. The band arrives from Hawaii on JAL flight 061 at 7:20 pm. I try to find relevant photos to match the tour diary, but it’s not meant to be exhaustive. Some other information comes from recent interviews in another Japanese publication, Queen in Japan, as well as other Japanese sources online.
Most of the text is a direct translation from Japanese by me from the 2019 book Queen Live Tour in Japan 1975-1985, which has notes originally published by Music Life magazine in 1976. This is a tour diary from Queen’s A Night at the Opera tour in Japan in 1976
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