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Miracle Goodnight
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Miracle Goodnight
| cover = Bowie_MiracleGoodnight.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = David Bowie
| album = Black Tie White Noise
| B-side = Looking for Lester
| released = 11 October 1993
| recorded = JuneSeptember 1992
| studio =Mountain Studios, Montreux; Hit Factory, New York City
| venue =
| genre = Rock
| length = 4:14
| label = Arista
| writer = David Bowie
| producer = Nile Rodgers
| prev_title = Black Tie White Noise
| prev_year = 1993
| next_title = The Buddha of Suburbia
| next_year = 1993
| misc =
}}
"'Miracle Goodnight'" is a song by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, released as the third single from his 1993 album 'Black Tie White Noise'.
While the previous two singles from the album, "Jump They Say" and "Black Tie White Noise", covered issues such as mental illness and legal injustice, "Miracle Goodnight" features a more unabashed recurring theme of the album Bowie's love for his new bride, Iman Abdulmajid. He declared the whole album "a wedding present" for Iman.
Released as a single, the song also had a music video directed by Matthew Rolston, featuring Bowie unmoved by a harem of beautiful women while singing the song to camera, as well as scenes of him in a jester's outfit, playing with mirrors, dressed as a mime, and even returning briefly to his fashion style as the Thin White Duke from 1976. "Miracle Goodnight" had the usual plethora of remixes his recent multi-format singles had featured and reached No. 40 in the UK Singles Chart.
Critical reception
Alan Jones from 'Music Week' wrote, "This is one of 'Black Tie White Noise's more attractive tracks, an offbeat and intimate affair with flashes of the old Bowie in the counter harmonies."
Track listing
All tracks by written by David Bowie.
7": Arista-BMG / 74321 16226 7 (Netherlands)
# "Miracle Goodnight" 4:14# "Looking for Lester" 5:36
12": Arista-BMG / 74321 16226 1 (Netherlands)
# "Miracle Goodnight" (Blunted 2) 8:12# "Miracle Goodnight" (Make Believe Mix) 4:14
# "Miracle Goodnight" (2 Chord Philly Mix) 6:22
# "Miracle Goodnight" (Dance Dub) 7:50
CD: Arista-BMG / 74321 16226 2 (Netherlands)
# "Miracle Goodnight" 4:14# "Miracle Goodnight" (2 Chord Philly Mix) 6:22
# "Miracle Goodnight" (Masereti Blunted Dub) 7:40
# "Looking for Lester" 5:36
Digital download
# "Miracle Goodnight" 4:15# "Miracle Goodnight" (2 Chord Philly Mix) 6:25
# "Miracle Goodnight" (Masereti Blunted Dub) 7:43
# "Miracle Goodnight" (Make Believe Mix) 4:30
Personnel
'Producers'
* Nile Rodgers
'Remix producer'
* Tony Maserati and Robert Holms for Two Chord Music
'Musicians'
*David Bowie vocals, saxophone on "Looking for Lester"
*Nile Rodgers guitar
*Barry Campbell bass
*Sterling Campbell drums
*Richard Hilton keyboards
*Lester Bowie trumpet
*Mike Garson piano on "Looking for Lester"
Other releases
* The "Make Believe Mix" of the song was included on the bonus disc for the 10th anniversary edition of 'Black Tie White Noise'. It was the first time the mix was available on CD.
References
*Black Tie White Noise Limited Edition DVD, 2004
*Pegg, Nicholas, 'The Complete David Bowie', Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, 2000,
Category:1993 singles
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Category:Song recordings produced by Nile Rodgers
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