#QUEEN A KIND OF MAGIC SONGS MOVIE#
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It was used by the BBC for the introduction of the opening ceremony in the 1986 Commonwealth games in Edinburgh.The BBC used the song as the background music for the 1986 edition of The Rock 'n' Roll Years (aired in 1994) when featuring footage from the all-Merseyside FA Cup final of that year, in which Liverpool beat Everton 3-1 at Wembley Stadium.A sample of Mercury saying 'Ha ha ha ha ha, it's magic' also appears in the Queen version of the song ' I Was Born to Love You' from their 1995 album Made in Heaven.The song was heard on a launch promo of Disney Channel in the UK in 1995, but also in 2009 for the launch in the Netherlands and Flanders.

#QUEEN A KIND OF MAGIC SONGS SERIES#

A shortened version of the song is used in the opening credits of the children's animated series A Kind of Magic.In the video, the word 'magic' appeared on screen every time it was mentioned in the song. The video was music video of the song set to video footage of F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter planes. A promotional music video, made by Boeing, was released called, Hornet Magic was released on VHS.The music was used in the trailer for the film The Adventures of Pinocchio.Roger Taylor – drums, drum machine, synthesizer, backing vocals.Freddie Mercury – lead and backing vocals, synthesizer.Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. * Sales figures based on certification alone. Musical theatre actress Elaine Paige recorded the song on her album of Queen covers The Queen Album in 1988. Queen's compilations The Platinum Collection, Classic Queen, and Greatest Hits II all make an unsubstantiated claim that the song reached #1 in 35 countries around the world, but it reached number one in Spain in 1986, the only country where it topped the charts. On Last.fm the song has more than 480,000 hits and is the nineteenth most listened Queen song ever. The single was certified platinum in Brazil for more than 100,000 digital downloads of the single. As May later remembered, the theater was old and derelict, and lacking central heating, so the band were quite cold during the March filming. Throughout the video, cartoon images dance to the beat of the song which were produced by The Walt Disney Company. Mercury transforms the hobos into the Queen members, dressed regularly with their instruments, then back to hobos again as he leaves. He enters an abandoned theatre (The Playhouse Theatre in London) where May, Taylor and John Deacon (all dressed as stereotypical tramps) are asleep until awakened by Mercury's entrance.

In the video, Mercury is dressed as a magician type figure. Notable is that Brian May did not use his famous Red Special guitar in the music video, but instead a 1984 copy. The music video for this song was directed by Russell Mulcahy, director of Highlander. On the Rock the Cosmos Tour of Europe, Taylor took lead vocals for the song at some concerts. Taylor often included the song in solo set lists, and those with his band The Cross. The song was a live favourite on The Magic Tour of the same year, which proved to be Queen's last tour before the death of Freddie Mercury. In a radio interview in September 2017, Chris Rea claimed that he performed the finger clicks with which the song opens. Mercury and David Richards produced this new version. For the album version, Freddie Mercury created a new bass line, added instrumental breaks, and changed the song's order to make it more chart friendly. Brian May described this original version as 'quite lugubrious and heavy'.

#QUEEN A KIND OF MAGIC SONGS MOVIE#

Taylor wrote the song, which originally appeared in the movie Highlander. The single's cover art features an image of Clancy Brown in character as the film's villain, The Kurgan. There are references to the film in the lyrics: 'one prize, one goal' 'no mortal man' and 'there can be only one'. Roger Taylor liked the phrase so much that he used it as inspiration for the song. The phrase 'a kind of magic' is used in Highlander by Connor MacLeod ( Christopher Lambert) as a description of his immortality. The song is the opening track on the band's compilation albums, Greatest Hits II, and Classic Queen. The single reached number three in the UK Singles Chart, top ten in a number of European countries, and #42 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was written by the band's drummer, Roger Taylor, for the film Highlander and featured as the ending theme. ' A Kind of Magic' is the title track of the 1986 album of the same name by the British rock band Queen.

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