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! One Vision is the perfect beginning to this album. A great rock song, though a little slow on this recording. A Kind of Magic is one of Queen's finest, and definitely Taylor's best. The poignant One Year Of Love is beautifully handled by Mercury, and though Pain is so Close to Pleasure isn't very strong, it's by no means a poor song. Friends will be friends, despite being a great singalong track doesn't really conform to Queen's image, and will probably be forgotten quickly. Who wants to live forever is great until the ending, which goes on too long. Gimmee the Prize is a great prelude to the hard rock and majesty of a typical mercury effort, Princes of the Universe. Talyor's don't lose your head, is a weak track, on an otherwise good album. Freddie only contributes once this time, and it shows, as he was recording for "Mr Bad Guy" just a few monnths previously, and the album suffers from it. Still, a good CD 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