2x Digital Media (deluxe edition 2011 remaster)

A Kind of Magic

Album by Queen

Released 2 June 1986

Tracklist

Digital Media 1
1
One Vision
5:11
3.4 ★
2
A Kind of Magic
4:24
3.9 ★
3
One Year of Love
4:27
3.1 ★
4
Pain Is So Close to Pleasure
4:21
3.4 ★
5
Friends Will Be Friends
4:07
3.7 ★
6
Who Wants to Live Forever
5:15
4.1 ★
7
Gimme the Prize
4:34
3.8 ★
8
Don’t Lose Your Head
4:38
3.6 ★
9
Princes of the Universe
3:34
3.9 ★
Digital Media 2
1
A Kind of Magic (Highlander version)
4:22
4.0 ★
2
One Vision (single version)
4:00
3.1 ★
3
Pain Is So Close to Pleasure (single remix)
3:57
3.0 ★
4
Forever (piano version)
3:20
4.0 ★
5
A Kind of Magic (demo / August 1985)
3:23
3.5 ★
6
One Vision (live at Wembley Stadium / Friday July 11th 1986)
5:12
3.5 ★
7
Friends Will Be Friends, Will Be Friends
5:59
3.5 ★

Recent reviews

JHSuth1843 13 Oct 2025

★★★½

A Kind of Magic is Queen’s last fantastic album in my opinion. The unofficial “Highlander” soundtrack gives us some amazing tracks such as the titular “A Kind of Magic”, “Who Wants to Live Forever” and “One Vision”, with “Friends Will Be Friends” and “One Year of Love” being some underrated favourites of mine

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Release credits

Brian May
background vocals [1.5-6, 1.9, 2.2], drum machine [6], electric guitar [1.1-2, 1.4-9, 2.1-7], guitar [2], lead vocals [6], orchestrator [6], sampler [1.1, 2.2], synthesizer [2.2, 1.1, 1.6]
Croydon
assistant [1-9]
David Richards
engineer [2.4, 1.2, 1.6-8], producer [1.2, 1.5-8, 2.4]
Eric A. Tomlinson
recording [6]
Freddie Mercury
background vocals [2.2, 1.1-6, 1.9], lead vocals [2.1-3, 2.5-7, 1.1-9], piano [4-5, 9], sampler [1.1, 1.4-5, 2.2], synthesizer [2, 4-5, 9]
Joan Armatrading
additional [8], guest [8], other vocals [8]
John Deacon
background vocals [2], bass guitar [1.1-5, 1.7-9, 2.1-7], drum machine [3], drums (drum set) [4], guitar [4-5, 8], sampler [3-4], synthesizer [3-4]
Lynton Naiff
strings [3]
Mack
engineer [1.1, 1.3-5, 1.9, 2.2], producer [1.1, 1.3-5, 1.9, 2.2]
Michael Kamen
conductor [6], orchestrator [6]
National Philharmonic Orchestra
performing orchestra [6]
Queen
producer [1.1-9, 2.2, 2.4]
Roger Taylor
background vocals [2.2, 1.2, 1.5-6, 1.9], drum machine [2, 8], drums (drum set) [2.1-7, 1.1-2, 1.4-5, 1.7-9], electronic drum set [2.2, 1.1-2], lead vocals [8], synthesizer [2]
Spike Edney
guest [5, 8], keyboard [5, 8]
Steve Gregory
guest [3], saxophone [3]