Queen’s 1986 album A Kind of Magic was written as the soundtrack to the classic movie Highlander, with its famous tagline, ‘there can be only one’ – a lyric from this Roger Taylor-penned song. Ironically though, there are actually two versions of the track; the movie version and the album arrangement, which was reworked by Freddie Mercury.
Our transcription here is of the better known album version, which features some iconic playing by Brian May – but do watch out for the tricky 16th note licks in the outro solo. These are a challenge even for Brian himself. Finally,