"We like going places where it's a challenge." How Queen helped tear down the Iron Curtain

Freddie Mercury onstage, 1986.

On 27 July 1986 Queen played what their record label EMI called “the first stadium rock gig behind the Iron Curtain” – at the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital of Budapest.

Other rock acts, including Elton John, Iron Maiden and Dire Straits, had played in Hungary before, but Queen were the first to perform at the huge open-air ‘People’s Stadium’.