Album - A Kind Of Magic

A Kind of Magic was Queen's twelth studio album being released in 1986. It was the band's first album to be recorded digitally. The album is based on the soundtrack to the film Highlander, the first in a series directed by Russell Mulcahy.

Queen later produced three more albums with Freddie Mercury (including the posthumous Made In Heaven), but this was the last album released that was promoted with a concert tour before Mercury's diagnosis with AIDS the following year and demise in 1991. For the first time in their career, the band allowed filming of them while they were in the recording studio. The video for One Vision shows them in various stages of writing and recording the song.

A Kind of Magic reached #46 in the US and #1 in the UK, selling 100,000 copies in its first week. The album remained in the UK charts for a total of sixty-three weeks, and producing three hit singles. The album eventually went Gold in the US in 2002, and later went Platinum. The album is the first from the band to feature a title track, something that became common for every album thereafter. Critical reaction on it's release was not particularly favourable, but recent years has led it to be cited by music publications and fans as one of Queen's best records of the 1980s. Estimates of the album sales vary greatly with some sources claiming sales as high as 14 million copies.