This submission has a TON of techie/geek history, so to appreciate it, it helps to know the back story.
I will try to be brief and concise, but this is real Indiana Jones type video stuff, sort of...
1976, Queen had just released "Bohemian Rhapsody" not even a year earlier.
Even Queen said that doing that song live was a challenge, and they needed front line and back line support with playback to pull it off to their satisfaction.
But Washington DC keyboard player Arnie Reed and his band
"Sixpence" either didn't know that or didn't care.
They were determined to
do it live.
"We'll do it LIVE!!!"
And to commemorate this accomplishment Arnie rented a Panasonic 1-inch "Hi-Band" reel to reel VTR and a couple of cameras and videotaped it.
Now, for some folks born AFTER 1975, the assumption is that home video was always an option.
It wasn't.
And most "HOME MOVIE" cameras (the kind that use FILM) did not have SOUND.
In 1976, fewer than 15% of homes had VCR's and even fewer had video cameras, and "video camcorders" did not exist yet.
And Panasonic only made that particular model VTR for one year, so for 34 years Arnie could not find a machine to PLAY the tapes and finally gave up,
and the reels sat and grew MOLD in his basement.
I referred Arnie to
DC Video in Burbank a couple of years ago and Dave Crosthwait restored the tapes as best he could.
Color playback was impossible
(unviewable) but Dave at DC Video did get viewable B/W playback, on the ONE remaining working machine he found,
after scraping off 34 years of mold and baking the tape to restore the magnetic oxide to the plastic tape binder material.
So here you go, a 1976 LIVE rendition of "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Sixpence!
I seriously doubt ANYONE else was even trying to do this song LIVE, certainly not in 1976.
PS: The comments are hilarious, a lot of people were convinced this was all fake, it wasn't...Arnie is a dear friend that I've known for twenty years.