Highlander - On set photographs by David James (1985)

"Connor MacLeod (CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT), The Highlander is attacked by his greatest rival, The Kurgan (CLANCY BROWN) in HIGHLANDER."

Cinefantastique (May1986)

Art by Roger Stine

Highlander (1986)

Highlander (1986)

Director - Russell Mulcahy, Cinematography - Gerry Fisher

"There can be only one!"

MORTAL KOMBAT (1995) || ANTHEM

A tribute to the film adaptation of the long lived video game series. Mortal Kombat holds a lot of value to me because I watched so much as a kid. I was too young to play the video games when this came out, but that didn't stop me from sneaking a few plays at my cousin's house (Sega for the win). I always played a Sheeva or Kitana...and I always lost until I got older and finally learned the fighting mechanics. I definitely owe this film for introducing me to the games. There are so many tributes to this movie that utilize the same formula of just putting clips to music. I wanted to do something more. My editing style has always leaned more towards a cinematic feel. This is my spin on a trailer of sorts.

March 12th, 1986 - Queen Story!

'Princes Of The Universe' bw 'A Dozen Red Roses For My Darling' released in USA and Japan

- 'Princes Of The Universe'

Written by Freddie Mercury

Taken from 'A Kind Of Magic' album, 1986

- B-Side: 'A Dozen Red Roses For My Darling'

Written by Roger Taylor

🔸The whole thing, I mean, of group policy is, first of all, that the group couldn't agree on the one single. Because it was to do with the film and also to do with the new Queen product. Because what's happened – I think for the first time in Queen's life – is that we actually made a film soundtrack, but we've also made a Queen album – so, we had to try to let people know that it's not just a soundtrack, because we've got other songs as well. So it's hard to depict, that it's not all one soundtrack, and it's not just Queen. We had to try to bring two projects together. And so, I mean, within the members of the band as well, we were fighting as to who liked which song. So we couldn't agree at all, and basically what happened in the end, we decided there should be two singles, released synchronously in different territories, and because the film is out in America first, we wanted to go with 'Princes Of The Univers' which goes with the film. But over here, Great Britain, we released 'A Kind Of Magic', because we thought that if we release 'Princes Of The Universe' to go with the film, then nobody is gonna see the film here until about July, and they have to know what it means. So, sometimes you have to sort of get that diplomacy, and work out things. So, in America they've got 'Princes of the Universe', over here is 'A Kind Of Magic'.....To start off, it was a Queen project as such anyway, but we did only, like, five tracks to go in the film, and there's about nine tracks now... Is it nine? Yes, about nine tracks. So these additional tracks, which are not in the film – so it is a Queen, a new Queen album anyway"

- Freddie Mercury

Interview 1986

👉 February 1986 - Queen Story!

Queen shoots promo video 'Princes Of The Universe', Elstree Studios, Hertfordshire, London directed by Highlander director Russell Mulcahy and Christopher Lambert

Written by Freddie Mercury

- First soundtrack to "Highlander"

📸 Photographer: Mary Evans/Studiocanal Films LTD

Well. They are really similar, idk. Change my mind🤷

Daily drawing 29 nov 2023

Connor Mcleod

Highlander - On set photographs by David James (1985)

James Acheson "Connor MacLeod" costume design, Highlander (1985)

"Mortal Kombat" (1995) Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson (Action/Adventure/Fantasy/Video Game) . . "Mortal Mombat: Annihilation" (1997) Directed by John R. Leonetti (Action/Adventure/Fantasy/Video Game) . . "Mortal Kombat" (2021) Directed by Simon McQuoid (Action/Adventure/Fantasy/Video Game)

More than the battle of life with death, and perhaps the whole world! The true story of the Immortal…

Film Director Russell Mulcahy asked the band to write the theme music for their debut feature film, under the working title Highlander, and in early 1986 the band Queen finally gathered in the studio. The musicians watched the working version of the film and lit up so much that they decided to record the full "soundtrack". The director gladly agreed, because he thought that if anyone could do it, it would be "Queen", because they wrote powerful hymn songs, and this was exactly what was needed for the film.

The first song recorded was "A Kind Of Magic", which he composed Roger Taylor and for whom at the BBC Studio Russell Mulcahy shot a video clip. The action captured the musicians, as it was not clear what they were doing - participating in the creation of a film or recording their next album.

More powerful tracks were recorded for the film 

Brian May was inspired by the scene in which the immortal Connor MacLeod picks up his dying wife. On the way home, he made the first sketches of the future hit. It is worth noting that it sounds in the same episode of the picture (later the song was included in some parts of the TV series "Highlander").

Brian took the title "Who Wants to Live Forever" from the movie "Flash Gordon", for which Queen composed the entire soundtrack. The song was recorded with the participation of a symphony orchestra conducted by Michael Kamen, who also worked on the music for The Highlander. In the picture, Freddie Mercury sings the whole song, but on the record the first verse and a few more lines are performed by May.

When Freddie died, the song "Who Wants to Live Forever" acquired a special meaning for his fans. Rumors immediately spread that it was originally dedicated to Mercury, that he sang it, anticipating an imminent death, and so on. However, researchers of the Queen band claim that Mercury did not yet know about the terrible disease when he recorded the song. Therefore, it is unlikely that he could seriously think about death, even if he did not feel well.

According to Roger Taylor, he was so drunk during the filming of the video that he did not remember his parts: "It was a long, boring shoot, and terribly serious. She seemed a little religious, so I can't say I was attracted to her. I really like the song in the context of the movie "Highlander", with all the filming of the highlander and his wife, how she gets old, and all this is filmed in the mountains, it seemed to me very beautiful and touching."

Of course, the message song, the testament song "The Show Must Go On" is one of the greatest songs in the history of rock music. The composition "Who Wants to Live Forever" can be considered a kind of prologue or preface to this immortal work.