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12 June 1989 – Queen began filming the promo video for ‘Breakthru,’ a powerful pop-rock song with a thumping Deacon beat that seemed to suggest the chugging of an express train. As a result, The Torpedo Twins (DoRo Productions) video was filmed on a custom painted steam train, ‘The Miracle Express,’ which took over the privately owned Nene Valley Railway in Cambridgeshire, England over two sweltering days.
The heat was the only real discomfort during the making of the video, which was a change from the usual freezing cold studios, but kept Freddie awake all night in his hotel room after the first day of shooting.
Continue reading1 September 1976, Queen performed @ The Playhouse Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland 
during the Edinburgh Festival, promoting the newly refurbished hall. The band played two brand bew songs, ‘Tie Your Mother Down’ and ‘You Take My Breath Away’ (at the time, both unrecorded)
The band took a break from recording their fifth album, ‘A Day At The Races’ (still untitled at this point), to play four shows in the UK. The two nights in Edinburgh are part of the “Festival of Popular Music,” and are essentially warmup gigs for the big Hyde Park show in a couple weeks.
According to an article from the July 31, 1976 Melody Maker, Queen were initially scheduled to play on August 20 and 21, but likely couldn’t commit to those dates because they were busy with the ‘A Day At The Races’ recording sessions. Many thanks to Rob Schoorl for the clipping.
Here we have the first known live performances of ‘You’re My Best Friend,’ ‘39, ‘You Take My Breath Away’ and ‘Tie Your Mother Down,’ the latter two notably being played months before the album versions would be released.
If ANYONE can raise the temperature of Mercury, it is model Debbie Leng. (She was Roger Taylor’s girlfriend at the time)
⠀She stars with lead singer Freddie Mercury in the video for Queen’s new single ‘Breakthru’, released today. ⠀
⠀Debbie, who appeared in TV commercial for Cadbury’s Flake, is the girlfriend of Queen drummer Roger Taylor. He did not want her to appear in the £500,000 video, shot at the Nene Valley Railway shire, in case there were accusations of favouritism.
But Freddie insisted she was the only choice. ‘I really wanted to do a sexy video and who better to do it with than Debbie Leng’, he said.
Credit for this fab article to Freddie_Neverboring
