The Show Must Go On. My most favourite song of my most favourite band. The last song from Queen's last studio album which was released before Freddie Mercury's death. I believe this song is masterpiece. I hope that now it's not a secret, and everyone knows that the author of this song is Brian May.

Brian May interview to CNN, January 9th 2000.
"The Show Must Go On is written as a collection, which is a Queen song because we decided to credit everything to Queen after all. But that's kind of, that, I regard that as my baby because most of that I wrote with Freddie sitting right here and it was a great experience because Freddie at that time wasn't really able to or willing to expose himself in terms of lyrics except at certain particular instances. And he knew about this idea. He knew that it related to the way we felt about him. When I sang the guide vocal for Freddie — and most of it I had to sing falsetto because I couldn't sing that high — and I was going to Freddie, is this OK? And he downs a vodka and goes into the studio and just nails it. And I think it's one of his finest performances ever, the original version of The Show Must Go On..."

On this site I've tried to collect different cover versions of this song sung by different singers of any kind — that's all I've got at the moment. I decided to create a list in a chronological order, as I think that any other order would make just disorder and chaos. And also I've tried to avoid of giving my own opinions about songs presented here. All the files are mp3 with 128 kbps quality (unless other characteristics are stated). The flag means that the song is performed not in English.

TSMGO  —

4.18 MB

original song performed by Queen. "Innuendo", 1991.

Cover versions

TSMGO  —

2.84 MB

ההצגה חײבת להמשך (performed partially in Hebrew and English) by Dana International. "Dana International", 1993.

TSMGO  —

3.73 MB

by Roger Taylor. Live in Nagoya, September 30th, 1994.

TSMGO  —

3.86 MB

by Shirley Bassey. "The Show Must Go On", 1996.

TSMGO  —

1.98 MB

live by De Hazenoten, 1999.

TSMGO  —

4.19MB

by Queen and Elton John. Live at Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris, January 17th, 1997.

TSMGO  —

3.69 MB

instrumental version by London Symphony Orchestra, June 1997.

TSMGO  —

4.04 MB

by Auscultate. "Gregorian Chants. Songs of Queen", 2000.

TSMGO  —

3.51 MB

by Aztec Jade. "The Attack of the Dragons (A Tribute to Queen)", 2000.

TSMGO  —

3.67 MB

instrumental version by Stephen Lloyd. "Accolade. A Tribute to Queen", 2000.

TSMGO  —

3.88 MB

live by Chris Thompson and SAS Band, February 19th, 2002.

TSMGO  —

4.13 MB

by Queen and Patti Russo. Live at Museumplein, Amsterdam, April 30th, 2002.

TSMGO  —

3.76 MB

instrumental version by Starsound Orchestra. "Starsound Orchestra Plays the Hits Made Famous by Queen", February 2002.

TSMGO  —

2.73 MB

by Jim Broadbent and Nicole Kidman. "Moulin Rouge!" soundtrack, 2002.

TSMGO  —

3.67 MB

by San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus. "SFGMC Does Queen", June 2002.

TSMGO  —

3.45 MB

by Jonatan Cerrada, the winner of the first French "À la Recherche de la Nouvelle Star" show, July 10th, 2002.

TSMGO  —

3.98 MB

by Jeff Scott Soto. Live at the Queen Convention 2003.

TSMGO  —

3.62 MB

by Ivana Radovniković. Performed live at "Story Super Nova Music Talents" show on Croatian TV. Admittedly 2003.

TSMGO  —

3.33 MB

by Morning, "Hour of Joy", September 2005.

TSMGO  —

4.00 MB

live by Chris Thompson, Treanna Morris and Zoe Nicholas. 46664 concert, Cape Town, South Africa, November 2003.

TSMGO  —

3.79 MB

by Philip Kirkorov and Turetski's Choir, 2004.

TSMGO  —

1.42 MB
48 kbps

by Alexander Gradski. Live in his jubilee concert, November 3rd, 2004.
 

TSMGO  —

3.78 MB

by Divinefire, a band from Sweden. "Hero", 2005.

TSMGO  —

4.01 MB

by Michael Ball. "Music", October 17th, 2005.

TSMGO  —

4.17 MB

live performance by Queen and Paul Rogers. "Return of the Champions", 2005.

TSMGO  —

3.86 MB

by Holly Wilson. "Queen en Bossa Nova", first half of 2006.

TSMGO  —

1.74 MB

by Paris Bennett, on of the youngest participants of the "American Idol". Live at "Queen Night" TV show, April 11th, 2006.

TSMGO  —

3.34 MB

by Bushido. Rap in Deutsch. "Der Bordstein Des Ghettos", 2006.

TSMGO  —

3.57 MB

by Grégory Lemarchal. "La voix d'un Ange", June 18th, 2007.

TSMGO  —

3.88 MB

by Metalium. "Nothing to Undo. Chapter Six", February 2007.

TSMGO  —

4.18 MB

by "We Will Rock You" cast with Brian May and Roger Taylor. The Dominion Theatre, the 5-th anniversary of the musical, May 14th, 2007.

TSMGO  —

3.67 MB

by Nevena Tsoneva, the winner of Bulgarian "Music Idol", June 7th, 2007.  

TSMGO  —

3.79 MB

live by Céline Dion, Christophe Maé and David Hallyday. Somewhere in summer 2007.

TSMGO  —

2.29 MB

by Geraldine Larrosa (the "Innocence" project), 2007.

TSMGO  —

2.08 MB

Russian rap by Ser¸ga. "The Chronicle of the Guy from the Streets of Gomel", 2008. Also appears in the soundtrack for "The King of the Ring" show on Channel One.

TSMGO  —

3.89 MB

"He'll Do Everything!" by Russian emigrant Steven Korj, probably summer 2008.  

TSMGO  —

3.72 MB

"Mi bruli plu" (something like "I shine more") by Kore, in Esperanto.  

TSMGO  —

3.26 MB

instrumental version by Naudo, played on acoustic guitar.  

TSMGO  —

0.99 MB

dance version by Franco Léon. Unfortunately, only a fragment (1 min. 5 sec.) this time.

TSMGO  —

3.78 MB

dance psychedelic remix "The Show Whats Go On" by Void.

TSMGO  —

0.98 MB
32 kbps

by Sergey Avilov. The worst version ever.
 

TSMGO  —

3.11 MB

instrumental version by unknown performers. Includes a fragment from "Who Wants to Live Forever".

TSMGO  —

3.78 MB

by Vladimir Trofimov. Played on the violin. A real porno.

TSMGO  —

3.03 MB

by maestro Brian May. I've got no idea about where and when it was sung.

Variations

TSMGO  —

1.46 MB

Promo edit
01:35

TSMGO  —

5.96 MB

Remember mix (Queen Talks + Innuendo + BoRhap + TSMGO)
06:30

TSMGO  —

4.05 MB

instrumental track from "Queen: The Eye" game, 1998
04:23

TSMGO  —

3.87 MB

Karaoke version (sounds very similar to "Queen: The Eye")
04:14

TSMGO  —

3.72 MB

Backing track (without Freddie's vocals and Brian's solo guitar)
04:03

TSMGO  —

1.76 MB

Greatest Flix II intro
01:55

Wanted

— Franco Léon, full version

— Yulia, «Montage»

— L5, «Le Live»

— The Starlite Orchestra, «The Starlite Orchestra Plays Queen»

If you've got any other version of this song,
please email me, and I'll place it here.