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"Pain Is So Close to Pleasure"
US single picture sleeve
Single by Queen
from the album A Kind of Magic
B-side
"Don't Lose Your Head"
Released
20 August 1986 (US)[1]
Recorded
1985 – 1986
Genre
Rock
soul
funk
Blue-eyed soul
Length
4:23 (album version)
3:57 (single version)
5:56 (12" extended version)
Label
EMI (Germany)
Capitol (US)
Songwriter(s)
Freddie Mercury
John Deacon
Producer(s)
Queen
David Richards
Queen singles chronology
"Friends Will Be Friends" (1986)
"Pain Is So Close to Pleasure" (1986)
"Who Wants to Live Forever" (1986)
"Pain Is So Close to Pleasure" is a song by Queen, included on their 1986 album A Kind of Magic, written by Freddie Mercury
and John Deacon, released in the USA and Canada, Germany and the Netherlands as the fourth and fifth single from that album respectively.
The single reached #56 at the German charts and #43 on the Dutch charts. "Pain Is So Close to Pleasure" has more than 58,000 hits on Lastfm.[2]
^"Queen singles". Queen Vault.
^"A Kind of Magic — Queen". 5 January 2023.
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