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((Short description|A song by the band, Queen))
((Use dmy dates|date=July 2014))
((Use British English|date=July 2014))
((More citations needed|date=July 2016))
((Infobox song
| name       = Pain Is So Close to Pleasure
| cover      = Pain is so close to pleasure single.jpg
| alt        =
| caption    = US single picture sleeve
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Queen (band)|Queen]]
| album      = [[A Kind of Magic]]
| B-side     = "[[A Kind of Magic#"Don't Lose Your Head"|Don't Lose Your Head]]"
| released   = 20 August 1986 (US)<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.queenvault.com/painissoclosetopleasuresingle.html|title=Queen singles|website=Queen Vault ))</ref>
| recorded   = 1985 &ndash; 1986
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = *[[Rock music|Rock]]
*[[Soul music|soul]]
*[[funk]]
*[[Blue-eyed soul]]
| length     = * 4:23 (album version)
* 3:57 (single version)
* 5:56 (12" extended version)
| label      = *[[EMI Records|EMI]] (Germany)
*[[Capitol Records|Capitol]] (US)
| writer     = * [[Freddie Mercury]]
* [[John Deacon]]
| producer   = ((hlist|Queen|[[David Richards (record producer)|David Richards]]))
| 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 (band)|Queen]], included on their 1986 album ''[[A Kind of Magic]]'', written by [[Freddie Mercury]]
and [[John Deacon]], released in the [[United States of America|USA]] and [[Canada]], [[Germany]] and [[Netherlands|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]].<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.last.fm/music/Queen/A+Kind+Of+Magic|title = A Kind of Magic — Queen| date=5 January 2023 ))</ref>

==Background==
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.

==Chart performance==
{|class="wikitable"
!Country (1987)
!Peak<br>position
|-
|Germany
|align="center"|57
|-
|((singlechart|Dutch40|26|artist=Queen|song=Pain Is So Close To Pleasure|rowheader=true|accessdate=21 August 2020))
|-
|Netherlands
|align="center"|43
|}

==Personnel==
*[[Freddie Mercury]] – [[vocals]], [[piano]], [[synthesizer]]
*[[Brian May]] – [[lead guitar]]
*[[Roger Taylor (Queen drummer)|Roger Taylor]] – [[drum kit|drums]]
*[[John Deacon]] – [[bass guitar]], [[rhythm guitar]], synthesizer, [[drum machine]]
*[[Spike Edney]] - synthesizer

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
*[http://www.queenonline.com/en/the-band/discography/kind-magic/#lyrics Lyrics at Queen official website]

((Queen))
((Queen singles))
((Authority control))

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[[Category:Rock ballads]]
[[Category:Songs written by Freddie Mercury]]
[[Category:Songs written by John Deacon]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Reinhold Mack]]
[[Category:EMI Records singles]]
[[Category:Capitol Records singles]]
[[Category:Hollywood Records singles]]
[[Category:British soul songs]]


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