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The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert was an open air concert on Easter Monday, April 20 1992 at London 's Wembley Stadium , televised live. The profit of the concert was used to launch The Mercury Phoenix Trust . In February 1992 at the annual Brit Awards ceremony, Brian May and Roger Taylor announced plans for an open air concert to celebrate Freddie Mercury 's life. The tickets went on sale the next day and all 72,000 tickets sold out in just two hours, even though nobody knew who would play apart from remaining members of Queen . This show marked bassist John Deacon 's final concert with the band, except for one live appearance in 1997 with May, Taylor and Elton John . In April 2002 the concert was released on DVD and entered the UK charts at number 1. The DVD release gained strong criticism, because the whole first half was not included. The performances included:
During the first part of the concert, several videoclips were shown, while the roadies changed the stage for the following act's performance. Note: " Innuendo " was not included on the DVD, at request of Robert Plant, explaining that his voice was in very poor condition, and most agree it was off. Also, when the concert aired on MTV, U2 dedicated a live performance via satellite from California of " Until The End Of The World " to Freddie.
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