Talk:A Kind of Magic

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[edit] RIAA Gold Award Status?

The article states that the album achieved RIAA Gold status (which is 500,000 copies sold) in the U.S. in 2002, then gives the number of albums sold in the U.S. as 1,100,000 copies. Album sales of 1 million units qualifies as Platinum status in the U.S. Can anyone explain the discrepancy in the article? 208.4.251.216 (talk) 08:55, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Small song articles

The pages One Year of Love and Gimme the Prize are extremely small and could still find a comfortable home on this page. Please discuss this and other similar small Queen song articles on my talk page. Dar-Ape 03:21, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

One Year of Love should not be merged into A Kind of Magic as this song was released as a single. (I have added an info box, categories etc.). - Candyfloss 10:14, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for expanding it. Dar-Ape 02:25, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Friends Will Be Friends

"'Friends Will Be Friends' was written by Deacon. The song is credited as a Mercury/Deacon song yet Mercury had very little input on the song, it was only of Deacons insistence that Mercury's name was credited. It is a rock ballad in the vain of 'We are the Champions' and was written for audience participation."

Any source for this?

Brian May talks about this song on his soapbox (http://www.brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/brianssb.html; 30 Jul 06) as if Freddie Mercury was the sole composer of it... :S

Anyone got a clue who really wrote it?

Thanks for your post, I have reverted the edits made by 124.168.102.124. --Candyfloss 15:03, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Kind of Magic: a #1 hit in thirty-five countries?

Can anyone name at least one of those countries? MatteusH 20:02, 7 March 2007 (UTC)