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A Kind of Magic is the twelfth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released in 1986 through EMI in the UK and Capitol Records in the US. It is considered an unofficial soundtrack album to the 1986 movie Highlander, with only three songs — "Pain Is So Close To Pleasure", "Friends Will Be Friends", and "One Vision" — not appearing in the film. ("One Vision" was previously released in 1985 and had also appeared in the 1986 movie Iron Eagle.) This album would be the last one promoted with a tour, because of Freddie Mercury's diagnosis with HIV the following year, leading to his death in 1991.Furthering the synth-rock sound of The Works before it, the album was the band's first to be recorded and mixed digitally instead of with traditional analog equipment (though the initial US CD mistakenly labels it an analog recording). The decision to do this gave Queen greater flexibility with their trademark elaborate production style, which on at least one occasion had worn down a reel of analog tape to the point where parts of it became transparent; the band would continue using digital equipment for their subsequent albums.The album was also the band's first to be oriented with the Compact Disc in mind — CDs had just received their big breakthrough with Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms (also recorded and mixed digitally) the previous year, and Queen were eager to make use of the format as well, featuring three bonus remixes (dubbed "Extra Magical Ingredients") on the CD release of A Kind of Magic. The band would also include bonus remixes on their next album and on the North American reissues of their backlog by Hollywood Records in 1991. Furthering Queen's enthusiasm for CDs, EMI commemorated the release of A Kind of Magic by releasing their first ten studio albums on the format in most of the world (The Works was already released on CD worldwide in 1984, concurrently with the LP and cassette versions). The one region that didn't get these releases was North America, who would have to wait until the Hollywood reissues to obtain most of these albums on CDnote News of the World, The Game, and Greatest Hits were previously released on CD by Elektra Records in 1983, though these versions went out of print within a year.A Kind of Magic was supported by more singles than any other Queen album, at a whopping seven. Of the nine tracks included on the base album, the only two that weren't released as singles were "Gimme the Prize (Kurgan's Theme)" and "Don't Lose Your Head"; even the three bonus remixes included on the initial CD release were sourced from those singles.Tracklist:Side One "One Vision" (5:11) "A Kind of Magic" (4:24) "One Year of Love" (4:27) "Pain Is So Close to Pleasure" (4:21) "Friends Will Be Friends" (4:06)Side Two "Who Wants to Live Forever" (5:15) "Gimme the Prize (Kurgan's Theme)" (4:33) "Don't Lose Your Head" (4:38) "Princes Of The Universe" (3:33)Extra Magical Ingredients "A Kind of 'A Kind of Magic'" (3:38) "Friends Will Be Friends Will Be Friends..." (5:58) "Forever" (3:20)Principal Members | |
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