# Who performed/wrote the Highlander movie main theme?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 8, 2002, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-performed-wrote-the-highlander-movie-main-theme/131344 "2002-10-08T13:06:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![LeeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@LeeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeJam)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-performed-wrote-the-highlander-movie-main-theme/131344/1 "2002-10-08T13:06:13Z")

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Not sure if this should go here or in Cafe Society, but it is a question.

I have a couple of Mp3’s both titled “Highlander Main Theme”. One is by Queen, the other is by Queensryche. I am a little confused, for in both they sound the same to my ear like Queen’s music.

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-performed-wrote-the-highlander-movie-main-theme/131344/2 "2002-10-08T13:13:38Z")

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I believe it was Queen who did music for that movie, along with Michael Kamen, who wrote the original score.

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**Author:** ![S\_Puppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@S\_Puppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/S_Puppy)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-performed-wrote-the-highlander-movie-main-theme/131344/3 "2002-10-08T13:22:22Z")

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Could Queensryche be mislabeled? Thats pretty common  
with mp3’s.

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**Author:** ![LeeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@LeeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeJam)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-performed-wrote-the-highlander-movie-main-theme/131344/4 "2002-10-08T13:26:18Z")

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Most likely. oh well… you get that 🙂

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**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-performed-wrote-the-highlander-movie-main-theme/131344/5 "2002-10-08T13:41:13Z")

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definately queen. Also, I think the song is great (princes of the universe) in the movie. However after the movie cuts the song off, the song goes all to hell.

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**Author:** ![muttrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-performed-wrote-the-highlander-movie-main-theme/131344/6 "2002-10-08T14:43:32Z")

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Definitely Queen.

Their album A Kind of Magic is more or less the soundtrack songs, done in full. Great disc.

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-performed-wrote-the-highlander-movie-main-theme/131344/7 "2002-10-08T20:18:23Z")

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For most of these questions, you can go to the [International Movie Data base (IMDb)](http://www.imdb.com/) and enter the movie’s title, then select the movie (or TV show) you are looking for.

Then when the movie’s page is displayed, in this case [Highlander (1986)](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0091203), go to the bottom of the Cast List and click (more), it will take you to the [Full Cast and Crew credits](http://us.imdb.com/Credits?0091203) where, just after the cast and producer(s) they list the music credits.