"One Vision" is a song written and recorded by the British rock band Queen, first released as a single in November 1985 and then included on their 1986 album A Kind of Magic.

[4][5] The song was inspired by the life and exploits of Martin Luther King Jr., with the lyrics recounting a man battling and overcoming the odds.

[5] In the 2011 BBC documentary, Queen: Days of Our Lives, Taylor stated his lyrics were "sort of half nicked off Martin Luther King's famous speech".

Mack acknowledged that lead singer Freddie Mercury wanted "lots of strange noises and swirling sounds", so he came into the studio one morning, sampled some of the vocal lines Mercury sang into the Kurzweil and toyed around with them by creating a downward pitch change and applying various effects to it.

The ending was done in a similar fashion, with Mack playing the word sample "vision" repeatedly to create the jet-like sound that finishes the track.

It is clearly shown during the portions of the studio recording session of "One Vision" on both the Magic Years documentary and the DVD Greatest Video Hits II that Freddie Mercury sings the line.

The progressive synthesiser music from the last part of the intro is repeated in the "I had a dream" section, complete with the last elongated note.

"Blurred Vision" adds an even longer version of the elongated note ending the normal song's intro, and a random pitch-shifted vocal.

[9] Some other made-up words during rehearsals were "one shrimp, one prawn, one clam, one chicken", a jokey mention of Bassist John Deacon and some profanity.

[10] An extensively remixed version of the song, titled "Blurred Vision" appears as the B-side of both the 7" and 12" single releases.

DoRo and Queen developed a fruitful working relationship which would result in numerous acclaimed and award-winning videos (for "Innuendo" and "The Show Must Go On", among others).

The song was used multiple times during the training and battle scenes of the film, where the young hero, Doug Masters, plays the track on his cassette player and headphones.

Despite Queen's US popularity declining in the past few years, MTV still played the video in heavy rotation.