It is rare in life that one looks forward to both a movie coming out, and the soundtrack to that movie. But back in 1986, the film Highlander was released, and the accompanying soundtrack was done by Queen, and released as their own album, entitled A Kind Of Magic.
I can't remember which I sampled first - the film or the album. However, the album itself is teriffic on its own. Most of the early songs on the album skew towards the sentimental - One Year Of Love, Friends Will Be Friends, Who Wants To Live Forever. Towards the end, they rifle up the volume - Gimme The Prize, Don't Lose Your Head, Princes Of The Universe.
The album combines all of these elements - the best elements of Queen - into one package. It resembles A Night At The Opera, in that the story told through the lyrics and the song arrangement, even without knowing the movie itself. The album gains momentum as it goes along, completed with Princes, leaving you on a high rather than a decline.
Memories : Six of us (oooh...let's see...me, Bono, Kearo, Jason Thacker, Dale and Joel I think...)travelling to Wollongong to watch Highlander at the cinema for the first time. And saying how brilliant it was. Then, some years later, four of us (Bono, Kearo, Joel and myself) travelling to Sydney to watch Highlander II....and watching one of the worst films of all time....ugh.
Rating : Though, as I've said before, ballads are not my cup of tea, Queen do them so well, they can't help but be liked. And then the harder stuff....yeah... 5/5
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