| Pain Is So Close to Pleasure | |
| Cover: | Pain is so close to pleasure single.jpg |
| Caption: | US single picture sleeve |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Queen |
| Album: | A Kind of Magic |
| B-Side: | "Don't Lose Your Head" |
| Released: | 20 August 1986 (US)[1] |
| Recorded: | 1985 - 1986 |
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| Prev Title: | Friends Will Be Friends |
| Prev Year: | 1986 |
| Next Title: | Who Wants to Live Forever |
| Next Year: | 1986 |
"Pain Is So Close to Pleasure" is a song by Queen, included on their 1986 album A Kind of Magic, written by Freddie Mercuryand John Deacon, released as a single in the US and Canada in August 1986, and in Germany and the Netherlands in February 1987.
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]
The song began as a riff idea by Brian May, then Freddie Mercury and John Deacon turned it into a song, with Deacon playing rhythm guitar. The title also appears as a line in "One Year of Love".
The version which appears on the single is a remix, rearranging much of the backing track from the original elements. The 12" single features an extended version of this remix, rather than an extended version of the track as it appears on the album.
| Country (1987) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 57 | |
| Netherlands | 43 |