After that awesome Jazz Debate, I'm ready to resume uploading shows! On May 11th (at 8:00 pm Eastern US time), I will be hosting another Queen debate! It will be the 1980 Game Tour (North American and European legs)! We will divide it into two parts: 1980, and the four 1981 legs (Japan, South America, Mexico, and the Montreal shows)! Most of the future uploads will be 1980-1981 uploads (either new uploads, or upgrades to existing shows) to prepare everybody for the debate! This next upload (Cologne 1980), is a very interesting show from the Game Tour--and deserves an upload! The quality is mostly decent, but it's pretty unstable throughout (random cuts, jumps, tape noise, random recordings playing throughout, etc), and it's slightly incomplete (several small cuts throughout, and the tape runs out during "Sheer Heart Attack"). With an enthusiastic crowd, and many great musical moments during the show, can this be a candidate for great early European Game Tour show? You bet! Does it contain excellent musical performances? Absolutely! Does this show contain Freddie in excellent voice? Absolutely not! Although far from being in bad shape (it's in pretty decent shape overall), this show isn't the best for Freddie's voice! He is very conservative throughout the show (he avoids almost every full voice note above A4--and even lowers notes in the G4/A4 range), and has some very bad vocal disintegration during "Play The Game" (one of the worst versions from the tour--he hits multiple notes in the 5th octave)! Don't worry: It's not all bad! There are great versions of "Now I'm Here," a brilliant jam after "Need Your Loving Tonight," "Love Of My Life" sounds great, "Keep Yourself Alive" sounds nice (with a great improv section before it), a good version of "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," and "Tie Your Mother Down" is great! ENJOY!!! Note: Some of Freddie's phrasings and note amendments sound very similar to stuff heard on the Jazz Tour (albeit with a stronger voice). This is very noticeable on songs like "Let Me Entertain You," "Bohemian Rhapsody." Note 2: Although the "Killer Queen" isn't oversung to death, it contains random speak-singing (which doesn't work half the time), and a very "experimental" guitar solo! Note 3: As per the norm during this tour, Freddie makes up lyrics on "Need Your Loving Tonight," and Brian makes up chords (before the guitar solo)!