On this day in music history:

A Kind of Magic by Queen (1986)

American Acoustic by Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel (1998)

A Kind of Magic

Album by Queen,

released on June 2, 1986.

Inspired by the movie Highlander (1986), directed by Russell Mulcahy.

Track list: One Vision; A Kind of Magic; One Year of Love; Pain Is So Close to Pleasure; Friends Will Be Friends; Who Wants to Live Forever; Gimme the Prize; Don’t Lose Your Head; Princes of the Universe; A Kind of Magic (Highlander Version) Roger Taylor; One Vision (Single Version) Queen; Pain Is So Close to Pleasure (Single Remix) Freddie & John; Forever (Piano Version) Brian May; A Kind of Vision (Demo ‘85) Roger Taylor; One Vision (Live at Wembley ‘86) Queen; Friends Will Be Friends (Freddie Mercury & John Deacon).

American Acoustic

Album by Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel,

released June 2, 1998.

Track list: Shenandoah; Alligator Alley; Give & Take; Shadow Dancer; Oaks; Johnny Appleseed; Gigue; Secrets Of The Big Sky; The Eyes Of Amelia; Don Juan; The Merced; The Children's Garden; Clancy's Heart; Aria; Jewels In The Crown; Sacajawea; Appalachia Calling; Danza Mora; Peru; Prairie Lullaby; Medicine Tree; Coyote Dance; La Fogata.

On this day in music history:

Belinda by Belinda Carlisle (1986)

Land of Forever by 2002 (1998)

Ophelia by Natalie Merchant (1998)

Belinda

Album by Belinda Carlisle,

released May 19, 1986.

Track list: Mad About You; I Need a Disguise; Since You’ve Gone; I Feel the Magic; I Never Wanted a Rich Man; Band of Gold; Gotta Get to You; From the Heart; Shot in the Dark; Stuff and Nonsense; Band of Gold [Featuring Freda Payne] [Single Mix]; Dancing in the City; Mad About You [Extended Version]; Band of Gold [Featuring Freda Payne] [Extended Mix]; Band of Gold [Featuring Freda Payne] [Dub Mix]; Shot in the Dark; Lust to Love; Mad About You; Since You’ve Gone; Head Over Heels.

Land of Forever

Album by 2002,

released May 19, 1998.

Track list: Summer of 300 Years; Sea of Dreams; Land of Forever; Realms of Splendor; The Calling; Dance with a Princess; Feast of Immortals; Falling Through Time; Heavenly Cities; Oceansky.

Ophelia

Album by Natalie Merchant,

released May 19, 1998.

Track list: Ophelia; Life Is Sweet; Kind & Generous; Frozen Charlotte; My Skin; Break Your Heart; King of May; Thick As Thieves; Effigy; The Living; When They Ring the Golden Bells.

On this day in movie history - Scene of the Crime (1986):

Scene of the Crime

French title: Le Lieu du crime,

directed by André Téchiné,

written by André Téchiné, Pascal Bonitzer and Olivier Assayas,

was released in France on May 16, 1986.
Music by Philippe Sarde.

Cast:

Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Wadeck Stanczak, Nicolas Giraudi, Jean-Claude Adelin, Jean Bousquet, Michel Grimaud, Philippe Landoulsi, Claire Nebout, Jacques Nolot, Victor Lanoux, Christine Paolini.

On this day in movie history - The Blue Lightning (1986):

The Blue Lightning

directed by Lee Philips,

written by William Kelley,

was released in the United States on May 7, 1986.
Music by Frank Strangio.

Cast:

Sam Elliott, Rebecca Gilling, John Meillon, Robert Coleby, Max Phipps, Robert Culp, Ralph Cotterill, Jack Davis, Ray Meagher, Michael Carman, Norman Erskine, Gary Waddell, Jeff Truman, Garry Who, Bob Barrett, Chris Pang, Peter Ford, Ernie Dingo, Leo Martin, Kenneth Radley, Dennis Hunt, Glenn Boswell, Bob Hicks, Zev Eleftheriou, Roy Edmunds.

On this day in movie history - Murphy's Law (1986):

Murphy's Law

directed by J. Lee Thompson,

written by Gail Morgan Hickman,

was released in the United States on April 18, 1986.
Music by Marc Donahue and Valentine McCallum.

Cast:

Charles Bronson, Kathleen Wilhoite, Carrie Snodgress, Robert F. Lyons, Richard Romanus, Angel Tompkins, Bill Henderson, James Luisi, Clifford A. Pellow, Janet MacLachlan, Lawrence Tierney, Jerome Thor, Mischa Hausserman, Cal Haynes, Hans Howes, Joseph Roman, Chris DeRose, Frank Annese, Paul McCallum, Dennis Hayden, Tony Montero, David Hayman, Lisa Vice, Janet Rotblatt, Greg Finley, Jerry Lazarus, Robert Axelrod, John Hawker, Bert Williams, Daniel D. Halleck, Randall Carver, Gerald Berns, Don Brodie, Graham Timbes, David K. Johnston, Paul McCauley, Brooks Wachtel, Richard Hochberg, John F. McCarthy, Leigh Lombardi, Charlie Brewer, Charles A. Nero, Wheeler Henderson, Frank Bove, Christopher Stanley, Linda Harwood, Nancie Clark, Michael Cooper, Dallas Hinton, C. Courtney Joyner, Shawn McBurney, Denise Schriedel.

On this day in movie history - Crossroads (1986):

Crossroads

directed by Walter Hill,

written by John Fusco,

released in the United States on March 14, 1986.

Music by Ry Cooder.

Cast:

Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca, Jami Gertz, Joe Morton, Robert Judd, Steve Vai, Dennis Lipscomb, Harry Carey Jr., John Hancock, Allan Arbus, Gretchen Palmer, Al Fann, Wally Taylor, Tim Russ, Tom Donaldson / Tex Donaldson, Guy Killum, Akosua Busia, Edward Walsh, Allan Graf, Royce Wallace, J.W. Smith, Diana Bellamy, Johnny M. Reyes, Karen Huie, Robin Townsend, Jeanne Kiely, Winifred Freedman, Dolores Aguanno, Debra Laws, Diane Robin, Leslie Morris, Gloria Delaney, Jo Marie Payton / JoMarie Payton-France, Angela Robinson Witherspoon, Deborra Hampton, Le Van Hawkins, Jason Ross, Natasha Peacock, Agnes Narciso, Frank Frost, John Price, Otis Taylor, Richard 'Shubby' Holmes, Terry L. Evans, Bobby A. King, Sam King, Arnold McCuller, Willie J. Greene Jr., Marina Anderson, John Otrin, Ray Pourchot, Skip Rose, Arthur Tovey, Tom Willett, Cal Wilson.

On this day in music history:

Dreamflight by Herb Ernst (1986)

Dreamflight II by Herb Ernst (1987)

Dreamflight III by Herb Ernst (1990)

Bringers of the Dawn by Herb Ernst (1996)

Diamond Soul by Herb Ernst (2012)

The Schubert Album Renée Fleming and Christoph Eschenbach (1997)

Atmospheres by Rudy Adrian (2014)

The Long Goodbye by Laura Sullivan (2021)

Dreamflight

Album by Herb Ernst,

released March 11, 1986.

Track list: Awakening Stars; Candlelighting; Sea Quest; Liquid Indigo; Celestial Descent; Celestial Ascent; Voyage into Silence; (a) The Voyager; (b) The Silence; (c) The Return.

Dreamflight II

Album by Herb Ernst,

released March 11, 1987.

Track list: Gaia's Song; Galaxy Delight; The Crystal Forest; Ancient Castles, Secret Mists; The Light of Forever; Midnight Ocean Reflections; Silver Aura; The Healing; Shannons Song.

Dreamflight III

Album by Herb Ernst,

released March 11, 1990.

Track list: The Enchanted Dance; Crystal Echos; Prima Materia; Song of the Rose; Accension; The Freedom of Forgiveness; Shimmering Wings; The Monastery; Song of the Soul.

Bringers of the Dawn

Album by Herb Ernst,

released March 11, 1996.

Track list: Stardust and Moonlight; Moonchild; Joey's Angel; Song of the Inner Child; Hilde Hope; Mooncradle in Dreamland; Unicorn Dreamride; Gentle Moment; Hilde Hope Reprise; Angel's Birth; Brahm's Lullaby.

Diamond Soul

Album by Herb Ernst,

released March 11, 2012.

Track list: Celestial Vespers; Forever Rapture; Angel Passion, Angel Prayer; Into the Sacred; Heaven's Child; Memories of Innocence; Redemption; Your Golden Soul; The Gift of Grace; Merciful Power.

The Schubert Album

by Renée Fleming and Christoph Eschenbach,

released March 11, 1997.

Track list: Heidenroslein, D257; Die Forelle, D550; An Die Nachtigall, D 497; Im Fruhling, D882; Die Junge Nonne, D 828; Nacht Und Traume, D827; Auf Dem Wasser Zu Singen, D774; Ave Maria, D839; Fruhlingsglaube, D686; Gretchen Am Spinnrade, D118; Du Bist Die Ruh', D776; Der Tod Und Das Madchen, D531; Viola, D786; Die Manner Sind Mechant!, D866.

Atmospheres

Album by Rudy Adrian,

released March 11, 2014.

Track list: Apple Tree Bay; Atmospheres; Willow Bank; Blue Horizon; Through a Cave into Another World; Amber Skies; Beyond the Silver River; The Temple on an Island; Dreams of SUBAntarctica.

The Long Goodbye

Instrumental track by Laura Sullivan,

released March 11, 2021.

On this day in movie history - Highlander (1986):

Highlander

directed by Russell Mulcahy,

written by Gregory Widen, Peter Bellwood and Larry Ferguson,

based on a story by Gregory Widen,

was released in the United States on March 7, 1986.
Music by Michael Kamen and Queen.

Cast:

Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, Roxanne Hart, Beatie Edney, Alan North, Jon Polito, Sheila Gish, Hugh Quarshie, Christopher Malcolm, Peter Diamond, Celia Imrie, Billy Hartman, James Cosmo, Edward Wiley, Corinne Russell, Greg Gagne, Jim Brunzell, Sam Fatu, Michael Hayes, Terry Gordy, Buddy Roberts.