“One Vision” by Queen

"One Vision" arrived as a Queen single in November 1985 and joined A Kind of Magic the next year. All four members share the writing credit, but the spark was Roger Taylor's: a song about a man fighting his way past the odds, drawn from the life of Martin Luther King Jr. Taylor later admitted, on camera for the BBC's Queen: Days of Our Lives in 2011, that he had more or less half borrowed the words from King's famous speech.

It's Queen plugged into the machines: Brian May on electric guitar and synthesizer, May and Freddie Mercury both on sampler, Taylor on real and electronic drums, John Deacon on bass, Mercury out front and Mack producing with the band. The video morphs their 1975 "Bohemian Rhapsody" pose into a 1985 version, and on the Magic Tour it opened every show, its intro reckoned ideal for kicking off a concert.

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