coverA Kind of Magic (1985)

Track List:

  1. *One Vision (Queen)
  2. A Kind of Magic (Taylor)
  3. One Year of Love (Deacon)
  4. Pain is So Close to Pleasure (Mercury & Deacon)
  5. Friends Will Be Friends (Mercury & Deacon)
  6. *Who Wants To Live Forever (May)
  7. Gimme the Prize (Kurgan's Theme) (May)
  8. Don't Lose Your Head (Taylor)
  9. *Princes of the Universe (Mercury)
    Additional Tracks:
  1. A Kind of A Kind of Magic
  2. Friends Will Be Friends Will Be Friends...
  3. Forever (May)

Produced by Queen & Mack.
Deacon: guitar
Spike Edney: extra keyboards
Lynton Naiff: string arrangement on One Year of Love
Joan Armatrading: vocal on Don't Lose Your Head
Who Wants to Live Forever: orchestral arrangement by Michael Kamen & Brian May. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic

Songs appeared in:

Notes: You could call this Queen's second movie album (after 1980's Flash Gordon soundtrack). This is another one of Queen's widely diverse albums, ranging from camp (Pain / Pleasure) to rock anthem (Princes) through everything in between. Who Wants To Live Forever is one of my all-time favorite songs, and it is quite a chilling ballad indeed. One of the album's high points is the guitar solo in Gimme The Prize, during which May makes the rhythm guitar tracks sound like bagpipes. Very nice.

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