Pain Is So Close To Pleasure

Documented writing accounts

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Identified recordings

Editorial perspective

Pain Is So Close To Pleasure occupies position 4 in the identified A Kind of Magic programme. It follows One Year Of Love. The next work is Friends Will Be Friends. Read that placement alongside the album perspective: QueenOnline places the album in the band's relationship with Highlander, while the track list begins with One Vision. Our editorial route keeps the album and film contexts connected without pretending they are interchangeable editions. The member profiles give another route through the material: Roger Taylor's writing is documented for the title song and Brian May's for Who Wants to Live Forever. External media and commercial releases must be matched to the actual work or edition, rather than merely to the film's name.

The timing belongs to Pain Is So Close To Pleasure - Remastered 2011, not to every performance of this work.

Sources and provenance

• A Kind Of Magic (Deluxe Edition 2011 Remaster) · catalog track listChecked: 2026-10-08