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Queen’s Opening Acts

For no reasons other than I love the band and my stumbling across this list, here are the names of the bands who’ve opened for Queen:

After The Fire
Airrace
Al Stewart
The Alarm
Alvin Lee & Ten Years After
Ambach Circus
Andy Fairweather-Low
Angel Child (Änglabarn)
April Wine
Argent
The B-52s
The Bangles
Belouis Some
Big Country
Billy Squier
The Blasters
Bloodrock
Bob Seger & Silver Bullet Band
Bow Wow Wow
Brownsville Station
Bullitt
Cate Brothers
Cheap Trick
Chris Rea
Cold Chisel
The Commodores
Craaft
Dakota
Eduardo Dusek
Erasmo Carlos
The Exploited
Foghat
Fountainhead
Frankie Miller’s Full House
Fruupp
Full Frontal Nudity
Gary Moore
General Public
The Go-Go’s
Head East
Heart
Hustler
INXS
Iron Maiden
Joan Jett And The BlackHearts
Kansas
Kayak
Kid Abelha and Os Aboboras Selvagens
Kiki Dee
Lancelot
Level 42
Lucifer
Lulu Santos
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Mahagony Rush
Manfred Mann
Marillion
Molly Hatchet
Mr. Big
The Narcs
Ney Matogrosso
Nutz
The Outlaws
Pepeu Gomes and Baby Consuelo
Ray Burton Band
Red Baron
R.E.O. Speedwagon
Rory Gallagher
The Royal Dragoon Guards
Sea Level
Seger
Solution
Sport of Kings
Status Quo
Steve Hillage
Straight 8
Storm
Styx
Supercharge
Taste
Teardrop Explodes
Thin Lizzy
Tombstone
Treat
Voyager
Whitesnake
Yesterday And Today
Zas
Zeno
ZiZi Labor

Joey deVilla

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Andrew Burke says:

March 26, 2009 at 11:02 am

What I want to know is, was it a band called "The Royal Dragoon Guards" - or was it actually the *real* Royal Dragoon Guards?
Joe Michaels says:

May 23, 2012 at 7:16 pm

Joey: I'm interested in the band Dakota which apparently opened for Queen at some point. I believe I saw that band and want to know more about them. Wiki lists a band by the same name, but it's a current band...around since 2007. Do you know anything about the Dakota that opened for Queen?
Greg says:

June 14, 2012 at 3:29 am

Hey Joey,

I know that the band Tombstone was an early opening band for Queen. There are some people who claim that they opened for Queen's first show in Denver CO on April 16, 1974 (Queen, in turn, opened for Mott The Hoople). I was at that concert and never saw this Tombstone or any other bands besides Mott and Queen. I have heard that Tombstone may have been scheduled to perform as their name have been printed on the ticket and canceled at the last minute, as one person who also attended the show has suggested. I cannot dispute this since I lost my stub a long time ago.

Any help would be appreciated.
Pete says:

November 29, 2014 at 5:19 pm

When did Kansas and/or Mahogany Rush open for Queen? I swear I saw them all together in Chicago, but hey, that was a LONG time ago and I wasn't exactly in a "normal frame of mind" at the time.
Pete says:

November 30, 2014 at 2:52 pm

My REAL question is whether Kansas and Mahogany Rush opened for Queen at The Uptown AND The Aragon Ballroom in Chicago March 7th and 8th 1975 (respectively) or whether Tantrum opened for them on the 8th at The Aragon. The Aragon website http://coolalbumreview.com (and my personal recollection) say it was Kansas and Mahogany Rush, but http://www.QueenConcerts.com says it was Tantrum. However it was LONG time ago and the Queen website lists The Uptown in the wrong city so they can be wrong. ...and you don't list Tantrum as an opening act even if only a one time event.