It's a Kind of Magic! (Greatest Hits Vol.2 - Queen)

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Product:	Greatest Hits Vol.2 - Queen
Date:	18/07/00 (28 review reads)
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Advantages: All of the 17 tracks, The cover, the inlay, etc.

Disadvantages: None.

This album contains Queens biggest hits from 1981 to 1991, and although much of it contains more of Queens poppy sound, it is still very entertaining, and does contain great rock tracks in 'I want it all' 'Headlong'and 'Hammer to Fall.' One of my favourite tracks is the great 'I want to Break Free.' Written by John Deacon in 1984, I think it is one of pops best moments when the guitar intro cuts dead, there is a beats scilence, and Freddie comes in with the classic 'I want to Break free-ee...' I love it. This album was released only two or three weeks before the death of Freddie Mercury, and contains a song written about his fatal AIDS disease, 'Show Must Go On.' At the time, the song may have been seen to be totally meaningless, or about some failed romance, but the line @I'll face it with a grin, I'm never giving in, on with the show' Followed by an emotional guitar solo, has so much meaning now. To top it off, the next and final track is the 1985 Live Aid-inspired rocker 'One Vision.' A delight.

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