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1. Princes Of The Universe

2. Kind Of Magic

3. One Year Of Love

4. Pain Is So Close To Pleasure

5. Friends Will Be Friends

6. Who Wants To Live Forever

7. Gimme The Prize

8. Don't Lose Your Head

9. One Vision

10. Friends Will Be Friends (2)

11. Forever

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have for any CD collection, 26 Mar 2002

By	M. D. Rathbone (Runcorn, Cheshire - UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Whilst most of Queen's early fans would have given up all hope by the time they listened to "The Works", for those that remained and the new followers "A Kind of Magic" was probably the peak of Queen's studio-based highly-polished era and blew me away when I picked up a copy upon its release in 1986.

'Classic' may be an over-used word these days, but just listen to the album over and over again and songs such as "A Kind of Magic", "Who Wants to Live Forever" and "Princes of the Universe" will still sound fresh and such is the skill in the production of the album and its multi-layers that I STILL hear something different in each track even today!

Gone is the diversity, pomp and tempo change of yesteryear, but here is a rock group at the peak of their output again out-classing the music of the moment (having seen out glam and punk, Queen were now taking on the new romantics).

No excuses - you must own this.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Just Brilliant!, 26 Sep 2002

By	D. M. Farmbrough "Dave Farmbrough" (Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The album starts well with Highlander theme Princes Of The Universe, then gets going with a terrific bass line from John Deacon on A Kind Of Magic. Pain Is So Close To Pleasure almost sounds like Diana Ross, with Mercury excelling at falsetto while the guys ham it up in a tribute to Motown. Friends Will Be Ffriends is an anthem which now seems to rival We Will Rock You; Queen said this was written to thank fans for being their friends. Who Wants To Live Forever was premiered as being Mercury & May rather than Queen at their 1986 concerts, and featured Brian at the organ. It starts as a melancholy song then soars into the stratosphere thanks to Freddie's powerful vocals. Gimme The Prize and Don't Lose Your Head are more Highlander tracks, rockier than most on this album, which ends with the Live Aid inspired One Vision. The only criticism I have of this album is that there isn't enough of it! Nine tracks just isn't enough! Nevertheless I saw Queen's last concert at Knebworth in 1986 and these songs were the flavour of that concert. This album will always remind me of a truly memorable experience in which I saw the world's greatest showman hold 200,000 people spellbound for two hours!

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4.0 out of 5 stars "There can be only one!", 31 May 2006

By	dogbarkssome (England) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

It's rather ironic that one of Queen's biggest commercial successes of the `80's should turn out to be a fix-up album constructed from movie soundtracks (primarily `Highlander', though `Iron Eagle' spawned the opening track `One Vision') and straddling two producers. Perhaps the relative sales failure of the `Flash Gordon' album persuaded the band to disguise `A Kind of Magic' as a regular Queen album, though the lyrics to many of the songs (not to mention samples from the film) will confuse anyone who hasn't already seen `Highlander'.

Musically Queen are still firmly in super-clean over-produced `80's mode, but thankfully this isn't quite as soulless as previous hit-factory `The Works'. The title track itself, while technically good, is a little naff for my tastes, and `Friends Will Be Friends' is a little too cynical in it's attempt to create a lighters-in-the-air crowd-sing-along to match `We Are The Champions', but elsewhere the album shows signs of improvement in the Queen camp. Most importantly the band have remembered how to rock, and while `One Vision' tends towards big dumb stadium rock `Gimme the Prize' and `Princes of the Universe' are more interesting hard-hitters, with `Don't Lose Your Head' similarly pounding along with it's massive keyboard riff. `One Year of Love' finds the band going for a more soulful slow ballad style, while hilariously `Pain is so Close to Pleasure' finds Freddie in ultimate camp mode as he sings falsetto throughout the bands mimicking of 60's girl-group pop. Best of all however is `Who Wants to Live Forever', probably the best thing the band have recorded since the 70's, with a symphonic moody song and a welcome return to lead vocals (even if it is only for half the song) from Brian May.

I've always preferred 1970's Queen to 1980's Queen, and `A Kind of Magic' is rather to clean and slickly produced for my tastes, but this is undeniably chock full of good tunes.

NB: Of the bonus tracks 2 are pointless extended mixes, but `Forever' is a pleasant piano instrumental of `Who Wants to Live Forever'.

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5.0 out of 5 stars legend
when i was 13 years old (2003) id heard soem queen stuff and thourght they were amazing to begin with, but id only heard like 5 songs, i told my mum, and then the same week... Read more

Published 9 months ago by Daniel Davies

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a grower!
At first hearing I thought it was an average album with the A kind Of magic the only fantastic song. But, on listening again I realised that actually its pretty fantastic. Read more

Published 12 months ago by Freddie Savenger

5.0 out of 5 stars classic!!
queen at their best. i loved this album when i was younger and my cassette copy got wrecked. plus it reminds e of the highlander film which is one of my faves. top cd

Published 14 months ago by Ms. R. Hodgson

4.0 out of 5 stars I like this album!
This album, along with 84's The Works, is Queen's best work of the 80s. Overall, this album is pretty consistent as Queen album's go and it features some really strong tracks -... Read more

Published 14 months ago by Mr. Jonathan Robin Oxley

2.0 out of 5 stars Product placement!
There are two reasons for buying this album: the joyous title track and Who Wants to live forever which are available on Greatest Hits 2, without the stodge and filler on here... Read more

Published 20 months ago by JJ

5.0 out of 5 stars Magical
All of Queen's 1980s albums and their one 1990s album are Queen at their best - nostalgia buffs will talk of the 1970s albums, but it was from The Works on that Queen were at... Read more

Published 22 months ago by Arquebusier1572

4.0 out of 5 stars Not a classic but great when performed live
It's hard what to make of this album, is it a proper queen album or a soundtrack to the highlander film, in all honesty it's a bit of both and although not a complete album or a... Read more

Published on 18 April 2007 by D. Annan

5.0 out of 5 stars What a Album
Not one of the well known albums but one of my favourite. Having seen the film Highlander I recognised the songs when brought this album and have to say this is the best work... Read more

Published on 24 Jun 2006 by R. Easom

3.0 out of 5 stars some insane reviews but good nontheless
well i haven't seen highlander but don't know whether that will change my opinion on this album.Most or all of the Queen albums i have heard(7 or 8) so far are great, this one... Read more

Published on 22 Aug 2005 by Mr. Adam Benjamin Fearby

4.0 out of 5 stars Queen goes back to rocking
A Kind Of Magic (1986.) Queen's twelfth album.

Movie companies must have been impressed with the music Queen created for the 1980 film Flash Gordon, because six years later,... Read more

Published on 18 Mar 2005 by Taylor X

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