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- Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5
- AllMusic3/5
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- Sounds2.5/5
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide2/5
- Chicago Tribune1/4
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A Kind of Magic album cover
The A Kind of Magic cover was designed by Richard Gray, photographed by Peter Hince, and illustrated by Roger Chiasson.
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- Richard Gray
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- Peter Hince
- Illustration
- Roger Chiasson
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Tracklist
9 tracks · 41 min
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A Kind Of Magic (2011 Remaster)Remaster · 2011 · 11 tracks
- 1One Vision (Remastered 2011)
- 2A Kind Of Magic (Remastered 2011)
- 3One Year Of Love (Remastered 2011)
- 4Pain Is So Close To Pleasure (Remastered 2011)
- 5Friends Will Be Friends (Remastered 2011)
- 6Who Wants To Live Forever (Remastered 2011)
- 7Gimme The Prize (Remastered 2011)
- 8Don't Lose Your Head (Remastered 2011)
- 9Princes Of The Universe (Remastered 2011)
- 10Forever (2011 Remaster)
- 11One Vision (Extended Version)
Videos
4 videos
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According to Riffiter listeners, the best track on A Kind of Magic is Who Wants to Live Forever — rated 5.0/5 by 1 listener.
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A Kind of Magic is the twelfth album by British rock band Queen, released in 1986. It was the band's 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 three albums with Freddie Mercury (including the posthumous Made in Heaven), A Kind of Magic would turn out to be the band's last ever album promoted with a concert tour, because of Mercury's diagnosis with AIDS the following year and his eventual death from AIDS 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.
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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. The album spawned three hit singles: the album's title track "A Kind of Magic", "One Vision" and "Friends Will Be Friends". 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. Critical reaction to the album was mixed, but it has, in recent years, been cited by music publications and fans as one of Queen's best records of the 1980s. The 1994 edition of the Guinness All Time Top 1000 Albums listed A Kind of Magic #171 in the all-time greatest rock and pop albums, and in 2007, Classic Rock ranked it the 28th greatest soundtrack album of all time. Estimates of the albums sales currently stand at fourteen million copies.
In brief
- Is A Kind of Magic good?
- Riffiter listeners rate A Kind of Magic 3.9/5 from 19 ratings.
- What is the highest-rated track on A Kind of Magic?
- Who Wants to Live Forever, rated 5.0/5 by 1 listener on Riffiter.
- When was A Kind of Magic released?
- A Kind of Magic was released in 1986 on EMI.
- How many tracks are on A Kind of Magic?
- A Kind of Magic has 9 tracks, with a runtime of 41 minutes.
- What genre is A Kind of Magic?
- A Kind of Magic is catalogued under Rock, Pop Rock, Hard Rock.
- What BPM is A Kind of Magic?
- A Kind of Magic runs at a median tempo of 121 BPM across its tracks, most often in G major, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to A Kind of Magic?
- Listeners of A Kind of Magic also rate 1 by The Beatles, Highway to Hell by AC/DC, Use Your Illusion I by Guns N' Roses.
- Who produced A Kind of Magic?
- A Kind of Magic was produced by Queen, David Richards and Mack. Queen produced all of them.
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