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A Kind of Magic
''A Kind of Magic'' is the twelfth studio album by British rock band Queen, released in 1986. It was their first studio album to be recorded digitally, and is based on the soundtrack to the film ''Highlander'', the first in a series directed by Russell Mulcahy.
Although Queen would release another two albums with Freddie Mercury (excluding posthumous releases), ''A Kind of Magic'' would turn out to be the band's last album promoted with a concert tour, because of Mercury's diagnosis with AIDS the following year, which subsequently caused his death in 1991. For the first time in their career, the band allowed filming of them while they were in the recording studio. The video for "One Vision" shows them in various stages of writing and recording the song.
''A Kind of Magic'' reached #1 in the UK, selling 100,000 copies in its first week, and remained in the UK charts for 63 weeks 〔(A Kind Of Magic ) Chart Stats. Retrieved 15 August 2011〕 and sold about 6.5 million copies worldwide (1.2 million in UK only). The album spawned three hit singles: the album's title track "A Kind of Magic", "One Vision" and "Friends Will Be Friends".〔(''A Kind of Magic'' review ). ''The Times''. 21 June 1986. Archived at queenarchives.com〕 The sixth track on the album, "Who Wants to Live Forever", features an orchestra conducted by Michael Kamen, while the last track, "Princes of the Universe", is the theme song to ''Highlander''.〔Bartkowiak, Mathew J. (2010) (Sounds of the Future: Essays on Music in Science Fiction Film ) p.19. Retrieved 15 August 2011〕
==''A Kind of Magic'' and ''Highlander''==
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 Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) says to describe his immortality.〔(Highlander (1986) – Memorable quotes )〕 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. According to a statement by Brian May on the ''Greatest Video Hits 2'' DVD (2003), at least at that point, he had 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.
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