On This Day: June 2, 1986 – Queen Releases Twelfth Album A Kind of Magic

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On This Day: June 2, 1986 – Queen Releases Twelfth Album A Kind of Magic.

On this day June 2, 1986, Queen released their twelfth studio album A Kind of Magic. The album featured several songs written for the film Highlander and marked a return to a more accessible rock sound after the band’s experimentation in the early part of the decade.

A Kind of Magic performed modestly in the United States, reaching number 46 on the Billboard charts, but it was a massive success in many other countries. It topped the charts in the United Kingdom and Argentina and became a...
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