Pain Is So Close to Pleasure

{{Short description|A song by the band, Queen}}

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{{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

| album = A Kind of Magic

| B-side = "Don't Lose Your Head"

| released = 20 August 1986 (US){{cite web|url=http://www.queenvault.com/painissoclosetopleasuresingle.html|title=Queen singles|website=Queen Vault }}

| recorded = 1985–1986

| studio =

| venue =

| 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)

| writer = * Freddie Mercury

• John Deacon

| producer = {{hlist|Queen|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, included on their 1986 album A Kind of Magic, written by Freddie Mercury

and John Deacon, released as a single in the US and Canada in August 1986, and in Germany and the Netherlands in February 1987.

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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.last.fm/music/Queen/A+Kind+Of+Magic|title = A Kind of Magic – Queen| date=5 January 2023 }}