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Released on 2 June 1986 by EMI Records in the UK and by Capitol Records in the US, "A Kind Of Magic" was Queen's first album to be released since they had received acclaim for their performance at Live Aid in 1985. Based on the soundtrack to the film "Highlander", directed by Russell Mulcahy, it was an immediate hit in the UK, going straight to number one and selling 100,000 copies in its first week. It remained in the UK charts for 63 weeks, selling 600,000 in the UK alone.
The album spawned four hit Singles: the album's title track "A Kind of Magic", "One Vision", "Friends Will Be Friends", and "Who Wants to Live Forever", which features an orchestra conducted by Michael Kamen, while the album's final track, "Princes of the Universe", is the theme song to "Highlander" film.
The album enjoys the status of an unofficial soundtrack for the 1986 film "Highlander", for which no official soundtrack album was released. The title, "A Kind of Magic", derived from one of the lines character Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) says to describe his immortality. Six out of nine songs on the album appeared in the film, although in different versions. The three songs that did not appear in "Highlander" are "Pain Is So Close to Pleasure", "Friends Will Be Friends" and "One Vision", which was featured a year earlier in the film "Iron Eagle". Conversely, a recording of "Theme from New York, New York", made specifically for a scene in "Highlander", does not appear on "A Kind Of Magic", and in fact has never been released in album form to date. Band member Brian May, according to a statement he made on the "Greatest Video Hits" 2DVD (2003), had, at least at that point, the intention to work on a proper "Highlander" soundtrack in the future. In one scene, a snippet of "Hammer to Fall" plays on a radio, a song from the previously released "The Works" album.
Although Queen would release another two albums in Freddie Mercury's lifetime, "A Kind Of Magic" would turn out to be Queen's last album promoted with a concert tour, due to Mercury's diagnosis with AIDS the following year.
In the 1994 edition of "The Guinness All Time Top 1000 Albums", the album was voted No. 171 in the "All-time greatest Rock and Pop albums". In 2006, a national BBC poll saw the album voted the 42nd "Greatest album of all time". In 2007, Classic Rock ranked "A Kind Of Magic" the 28th greatest soundtrack album of all time.
Queen Productions Ltd./Universal International Music B.V., 1986/2011/2023 (0602547202796). Made in Italy. Pressed in France.
Tracklist:
Side One
1. One Vision 5:10
2. A Kind Of Magic 4:25
3. One Year Of Love 4:27
4. Pain Is So Close To Pleasure 4:22
5. Friends Will Be Friends 4:08
Side Two
1. Who Wants To Live Forever 5:14
2. Gimme The Price (Kurgens Theme) 4:33
3. Don't Lose Your Head 4:38
4. Princes Of The Universe 3:32
Total playing time: 40:29 min.
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