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"Miracle Goodnight" | ||||
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Single by David Bowie | ||||
from the album Black Tie White Noise | ||||
B-side | " Looking for Lester" | |||
Released | 11 October 1993[1] | |||
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Length | 4:14 | |||
Label | Arista | |||
Songwriter(s) | David Bowie | |||
Producer(s) | Nile Rodgers | |||
David Bowie singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Miracle Goodnight" on YouTube |
"Miracle Goodnight" is a song by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, released as the third and final single from his 1993 album, Black Tie White Noise. The song reached No. 40 in the UK Singles Chart.
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. [2]
The song's music video was 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.
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." [3] A reviewer from Philadelphia Inquirer said, "'Miracle Goodnight' may boast one of the clumsiest lyrics D. B. has ever penned (I wished I was a sailor a thousand miles from here / I wished I had a future / Anywhere). But with a house-quaking foundation, Rodgers' sparkling, Caribbean-flavored guitar solo, and a Philip Glass-like coda, "Miracle" adds up to one of Bowie's most endearing numbers." [4]
All tracks were by written by David Bowie.
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