Queen - A Kind Of Magic (Remastered) [4K AI Upscale | HEVC 10-bit | PCM 24-bit 96 kHz | DTS 24/96 5.1]

Genre: Rock
Style: Arena Rock
Year: 1986
Video Source: YouTube, 1440p remaster
Audio Source: SACD & DVD

"A Kind of Magic" is the title track of the 1986 album of the same name by the British rock band Queen. It was written by the band's drummer, Roger Taylor, for the film Highlander and featured as the ending theme. The single reached number three in the UK Singles Chart, top ten in a number of European countries, and #42 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song is the opening track on the band's compilation albums, Greatest Hits II, and Classic Queen.
Brian May described this original version as "quite lugubrious and heavy". For the album version, Freddie Mercury created a new bass line, added instrumental breaks, and changed the song's order to make it more chart friendly. Mercury and David Richards produced this new version.

The phrase "a kind of magic" is used in Highlander by Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) as a description of his immortality. Roger Taylor liked the phrase so much that he used it as inspiration for the song. There are references to the film in the lyrics: "one prize, one goal"; "no mortal man"; and "there can be only one". The single's cover art features an image of Clancy Brown in character as the film's villain, The Kurgan.

The music video for this song was directed by Russell Mulcahy, director of Highlander. Notable is that Brian May did not use his famous Red Special guitar in the music video, but instead a 1984 copy. In the video, Mercury is dressed as a magician type figure. He enters an abandoned theatre (The Playhouse Theatre in London) where May, Taylor and John Deacon (all dressed as stereotypical tramps) are asleep until awakened by Mercury's entrance. Mercury transforms the hobos into the Queen members, dressed regularly with their instruments, then back to hobos again as he leaves. Throughout the video, cartoon images dance to the beat of the song which were produced by The Walt Disney Company.
In June 2022 a 1440p/50fps remaster was released on YouTube. It is remastered from the original 1-inch / 2-inch videotape masters by James Wong.

Release Info
The video track is upscaled to from 1440p to 4K with Topaz Video AI and encoded to HEVC 10-bit.
The first PCM track is the 2012 remaster ripped from the SACD release, synced with Adobe Audition.
The second PCM track + the DTS track are ripped from the Greatest Video Hits 2 DVD, synced by muxing.
The timed lyrics are created from scratch. Enable the subtitles to see the lyrics.

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Spoiler: Media Info

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