QUEEN - A Kind Of Magic VINYL LP SEALED
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SEALED - Queen A Kind of Magic
A Kind of Magic is the twelfth studio album by the British band , released on 2 June 1986. It was their first studio album to be recorded digitally, and is based on the soundtrack to the film , the first in a series directed by .
A Kind of Magic was Queen's first album to be released since they had been acclaimed for their performance at the 1985 concert. It was an immediate hit in the UK, going straight to number one and selling 100,000 copies in its first week. It remained in the UK charts for 63 weeks, selling about six million copies worldwide (600,000 in the UK alone). The album spawned four hit singles: the album's title track "", "One Vision", "", and "", which features an orchestra conducted by , while the last track, "", is the to Highlander.
Although Queen would release another two albums with (excluding posthumous releases), A Kind of Magic would turn out to be the band's last album promoted with a , 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 themselves to be filmed while they were in the recording studio. The video for "" shows them in various stages of writing and recording the song.
