Friends Will Be Friends

A Kind of Magic
Studio album by Queen
Released	June 2, 1986
Recorded	November 1985–April 1986 at Musicland Studios, Munich, Germany, Mountain Studios, Montreux, Switzerland and Townhouse Studios, London, England
Genre	pop rock, Hard rock
Length	53:36 (EMI CD) 50:31 (Hollywood CD)
Label	EMI Hollywood (US)
Producer	Queen, Mack and David Richards
Professional reviews
Allmusic link Rolling Stone link The Times – link (Queen Archives)
Queen chronology
The Works (1984) A Kind of Magic (1986) Live Magic (1986)
Singles from A Kind Of Magic
"One Vision" Released: November 4, 1985 "A Kind of Magic" Released: March 17, 1986 "Princes of the Universe" Released: April, 1986 (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan only) "Friends Will Be Friends" Released: June 9, 1986 "Pain Is So Close to Pleasure" Released: August, 1986 (US, Europe only) "Who Wants to Live Forever" Released: September 15, 1986 "One Year of Love" Released: 1986 (France, Spain only)

A Kind of Magic is a 1986 album by English rock band Queen. It was the band's twelfth studio album, and is based on the soundtrack to the film Highlander, the first in a series directed by Russell Mulcahy. Though the album stalled at #46 in the United States, it rocketed to #1 in the United Kingdom, remaining in the charts for sixty-three weeks and spawning 3 hit singles. The single "A Kind of Magic" only reached #42 in the US despite being featured in Highlander. The album eventually went Gold in the US in 2002. It is Queen's first album with a title track, and every album released thereafter also contained one. Although Queen would release another three albums with Freddie Mercury (including one posthumous one), A Kind of Magic would turn out to be the band's last ever album promoted with a concert tour, due to Freddie Mercury's affliction with AIDS. For the first time in their career, the band allowed cameras to film them while they were in the studio. The video for "One Vision" shows them in various stages of writing and recording the song.