In Radio-Ga-Ga Freddy Mercury sings about radio being his 'only friend through teenage nights'.
Well in a senior year filled with disappointment and pain A Kind of Magic was our friend. Twenty-five years on it still is.
First the lead song, the theme song for Iron Eagle:
A call to arms if we ever heard one.
Not until we were much older did we get into earlier Queen, so for a good portion of our life we thought of them as a hard rock-metal band. Between the Wayne's World moment and albums like A Kind of Magic one can see why.
For Gen-X sci-fi geeks, A Kind of Magic is more properly called Highlander, as half the songs were in the 1985 film.
To this day we get chills from this one:
Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, swords....
Here's another great one:
Great solo and some nice harmonies:
A Kind of Magic, for us it has always beem
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