The single was certified platinum in Brazil for more than 100,000 digital downloads of the single. As May later remembered, the theater was old and derelict, and lacking central heating, so the band were quite cold during the March filming. Throughout the video, cartoon images dance to the beat of the song which were produced by The Walt Disney Company. Mercury transforms the hobos into the Queen members, dressed regularly with their instruments, then back to hobos again as he leaves. He enters an abandoned theatre (The Playhouse Theatre in London) where May, Taylor and John Deacon (all dressed as stereotypical tramps) are asleep until awakened by Mercury's entrance. In the video, Mercury is dressed as a magician type figure. Notable is that Brian May did not use his famous Red Special guitar in the music video, but instead a 1984 copy. The music video for this song was directed by Russell Mulcahy, director of Highlander. On the Rock the Cosmos Tour of Europe, Taylor took lead vocals for the song at some concerts. Taylor often included the song in solo set lists, and those with his band The Cross. The song was a live favourite on The Magic Tour of the same year, which proved to be Queen's last tour before the death of Freddie Mercury. In a radio interview in September 2017, Chris Rea claimed that he performed the finger clicks with which the song opens. Mercury and David Richards produced this new version. For the album version, Freddie Mercury created a new bass line, added instrumental breaks, and changed the song's order to make it more chart friendly. Brian May described this original version as "quite lugubrious and heavy".
Taylor wrote the song, which originally appeared in the movie Highlander. The single's cover art features an image of Clancy Brown in character as the film's villain, The Kurgan. There are references to the film in the lyrics: "one prize, one goal" "no mortal man" and "there can be only one". Roger Taylor liked the phrase so much that he used it as inspiration for the song. The 90-minute performance is equal parts empowering and exhilarating – whether you are looking for the ultimate date night or a unique and special girls’ night out, MAGIC MIKE LIVE is an unforgettable night of entertainment.The phrase "a kind of magic" is used in Highlander by Connor MacLeod ( Christopher Lambert) as a description of his immortality.
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The Channing Tatum crafted, 360-degree dance and acrobatic spectacular is made for a woman’s gaze but directed at a woman’s heart. Here’s a little behind the scenes teaser about that incredible experience When the international Magic Mike team descended on the little town of Malle, Belgium to supervise the final days of construction, we decided to do a one-of-a-kind performance for the townspeople. The tent took over a year to design and construct. “It is the most beautiful, special place for people to experience the show and has allowed us to do things with our performers that just haven’t been possible anywhere else in the world.” “There’s really nothing else like it in the world,” said Alison Faulk the show’s co-director and choreographer. Named after what is simply the coolest mythological place ever imagined, the Arcadia is a beautiful, two storey, fully-customized venue where every seat, every finish, every detail has been meticulously curated by Channing and the Magic Mike Live creative team especially for the people of Australia. In cooperation with Het Spiegelpaleis in Belgium, Magic Mike Live has created the world’s largest Spiegeltent, named The Arcadia.