Queen take to the stage and the place goes wild.
The noise of the crowd rose, the stage lights flashed even more brightly and the smoke billowed even more violently - and out of the mist, Queen came on stage. Freddie Mercury began to flash like the lights and chase the smoke around the stage. Roger Taylor crouched behind his drums pounding out the rhythm, seemingly intent on smashing them to oblivion; John Deacon's face was tight with concentration as he played his bass, and Brian May fought a musical duel with Freddie Mercury. "One Vision" was an apt title for the opening number.
It was a familiar and exhilarating sight to every Queen fan at Slane.

The entourage to Queen had arrived some days in 15 huge lorries transporting the huge 180 foot long stage. It had taken the road crew of 60 plus two days to construct, untangling eight miles of cable, setting up five generators and erecting two giant 60 foot towers, festooned with searchlights.

95,000 people poured into the grounds when the gates were opened at 9 in the morning, a full nine hours before Queen were due to appear four hours even before the first supporting group was due on stage on one which was the Bangles. Because of the lack of lighting on the Slane site, the show had to finish early, but things got chaotic, to say the least. People even came up river in canoes, trying to get in the way to Slane. At times the scene from the castle resembled a medieval painting, with exhausted and dishevelled people sprawled on the ground, exhausted, drunk, dead to the world.

By the time the familiar smoke billowed out from the stage, some people could only say they were there when Freddie began to sing, but they couldn't claim to have actually heard him. He even had to stop the show after ten minutes, things in the crowd had got so chaotic. The show was being recorded on a mobile 24 track studio, but someone staggering past the equipment pulled out a cable. That was just another year at Slane.