Allow me to share the best moment in any concert I have ever seen...

It was 1978 or 1979. I had purchased tickets for the Queen tour and was anxiously looking forward to the show. There was only one problem. The new album wasn't released yet.

The album was News of the World, and it finally hit the shelves on a Saturday, and the concert was the following Tuesday. Being a devoted Queen fan, I hit the record store as it opened, and eagerly snatched a copy as the guy was loading them out of a cardboard box onto the rack. My best friend and I listened to the album all weekend.

Fast forward to the concert, at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. The lighting rig was in the shape of a crown and suspended about 3 feet above the stage. The lights went out, the rig lit up, and slowly began to rise, with dry ice fog boiling out of it.

The song was "We Will Rock You", with its NOW familiar "Boom Boom THWACK, Boom Boom THWACK", but remember, at the time, almost nobody in the audience had heard the song. It didn't matter. Thousands of people went absolutely berserk.

They played all the great old Queen stuff...."Killer Queen", "Stone Cold Crazy", "Tie Your Mother Down", all of it. This was well before the '80s stuff, when this was when they were one of the hardest rocking bands in the game. This was years before "Radio Ga-Ga" and all that crap.

In concert, it's impossible to reproduce all the overdubbing in "Bohemian Rhapsody", so the band leaves the stage and they resort to a tape for the "Figaro" stuff, but there's a trapdoor in the stage. When they get to the guitar blast at "So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye.." Freddie launches out of the trapdoor onto the stage with an enormous backdrop of pyrotechnic fireworks.

I'm telling you, I got goosebumps just typing this.