The Rock In Rio Festival is by any standards an extraordinary acheivement.  To consider a ten day long festival with about 1.4 million people and many acts headlined by Queen it boggles the mind.  The international artists included AC/DC, Ozzy Osbourne, Rod Stewart and Yes.  Queen were the main attraction playing two shows, on January 12th and a week later on the 19th.  Both were filmed and broadcast throughout South America by the Globo network.  Nearly 200 million people throughout 60 countries watched the broadcast, and it's said that Queen alone drew 325,000 people per performance.  A compilation video edited from the two performances was officially released and the "Rock In Rio Theme" was issued as a B-side of "A Winter's Tale" in the UK and "Too Much Love Will Kill You" in the US in 1995. 

Rock In Rio Complete is a dvdr release that was given away by a retailer in Tokyo as a freebie.  It comes in a single slimline jewel case with insert.  This isn't a copy of the official video of the event but the complete television broadcast of the first of their two shows, on January 12th.  It looks like a twenty year old video tape.  It isn't perfect and far from  master quality, but it's good enough to enjoy.  It is a multi camera pro-shot affair with many great close ups of the band and some dramatic shots of the large crowd.  The audience is HUGE and very enthusiastic.

The same really can't be said for the band, however.  For whatever reason they look very tire and mechanical on stage.  Even Freddie looks sluggish.  But the performance is very competent and there are so few video documents of the Works era Queen.  The "Mustapha" into to "Hammer To Fall" is great, and it is funny to see Freddie dressed in drag for "I Want To Break Free" which the crowd seems to really enjoy.  It was a fiction by the British press that Freddie's antics offended the Brazilians.  Overall this is a nice document to see and perhaps some copies might be floating around.