Pain Is So Close to Pleasure

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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]