Queen: A Kind Of Magic (EMI) **½
Jack Barron, Sounds, 7 June 1986
TO DISMISS this out of hand would be as thoughtless as giving a cigarette to a man dying of cancer. There must be something to account for what Queen do, what they are trying to say and whether they achieve it which goes beyond the usual moan that Freddie Mercury is a prat of the first order.
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