The actual setlist had the performance of "Jailhouse Rock" in the encore after "Sheer Heart Attack".

Specifically, he talked about the lengths he went to convince the band to make the film at the end of their then-current tour.

Swimmer said the deciding moment came when he took Freddie Mercury to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., and showed him the three-storey IMAX screen, and told him to imagine himself five stories tall.

In particular, May was irked by Swimmer's camera direction and raised this point every time he was not in shot during a guitar solo.

In most of the world, the video was released and re-released at various points from 1982 to 1992 in many popular formats of the day such as VHS, Betamax, Laserdisc and V2000.

[3] It was not until 1992 that a full, 21-song version was released in the US, with a portion of the proceeds benefitting the Magic Johnson AIDS Foundation.

Then in 1997, 1998 and 1999, a Commemorative Edition was released throughout the world on VHS, Laserdisc and DVD with completely redesigned cover art (a blue/green background with Freddie's silhouette in black), and included Queen performing the Elvis Presley song "Jailhouse Rock", which had not been included in previous releases.

The concert film was again re-released in 2001 on DVD and VHS, remastered in THX for enhanced audio and video quality.