Meanwhile, the audience was initially fairly stunned into wide-eyed silence by Queen’s arena-sized display of heavy-rock opulence, according to eyewitness reports.

Queen’s set, likewise relied heavily on their latest album, at first, powering up with 'Procession,' 'Father to Son,' 'Ogre Battle' and 'White Queen (As it Began),' before segueing into select first-album highlights like 'Great King Rat,' 'Doing Alright,' 'Son and Daughter' and 'Keep Yourself Alive' (plus the never officially released 'Hangman'), before concluding with 'Seven Seas of Rhye' and finally, the explosive 'Liar.' In fact, Mercury and May cut quite striking visions in the lavish silk and satin costumes that were custom-designed in all black for Freddie and all white for May (in reference to Queen II’s “black” and “white” vinyl sides) just prior to the tour by band friend Zandra Rhodes. Luckily, Queen enjoyed close friendships with the men of Mott (the two bands having already toured extensively together back home), and so the latter did not mind that their upstart openers already pranced and posed upon the stage like well-established superstars. That meant Queen was effectively starting from scratch as they stormed the stage at Denver's Regis College, a conservative Jesuit institution, in an effort to change this state of affairs - one show, and even one fan, at a time.

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