Description
Queen – The Miracle / Gong Audio CD 1989
UPC 5999882942377
HCDL 37307
Made in Hungary
!!! Condition of this CD is USED VERY GOOD !!!
| Label: | Gong – HCDL 37307 |
|---|---|
| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | Hungary |
| Released: |
1989 |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Style: | Pop Rock |
The Miracle is the thirteenth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 22 May 1989 by Parlophone Records and Capitol Records in both the United Kingdom and the USA, respectively, where it was the band's first and final studio album to be released on those respective labels. The album was recorded as the band recovered from Brian May's marital problems and Freddie Mercury's HIV diagnosis in 1987 (which was known to the band, though not publicised at the time). Recording started in January 1988 and lasted for an entire year. The album was originally going to be called The Invisible Men, but three weeks before the release, according to Roger Taylor, they decided to change the name to The Miracle. It was also the last Queen album with a photo of the band on the front cover.
The album reached number one in the UK, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, and number 24 on the US Billboard 200 chart. AllMusic would name The Miracle as Queen's best album of the 1980s, along with The Game. It would prove to be the band's penultimate album to be recorded with Freddie Mercury, as he died on 24 November 1991, nine months after their next album, Innuendo, was released.
Tracklist:
| 1 | Party | 2:27 | |
| 2 | Khashoggi's Ship | 2:48 | |
| 3 | The Miracle | 5:02 | |
| 4 | I Want It All | 4:41 | |
| 5 | The Invisible Man | 3:58 | |
| 6 | Breakthru | 4:08 | |
| 7 | Rain Must Fall | 4:23 | |
| 8 | Scandal | 4:43 | |
| 9 | My Baby Does Me | 3:25 | |
| 10 | Was It All Worth It | 5:47 | |
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Extra Tracks |
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| 11 | Hang On In There | 3:46 | |
| 12 | Chinese Torture | 1:47 | |
| 13 | The Invisible Man (12" Version) |
5:29 |
- Producer – David Richards
- Producer, Written-By – Queen
Queen
- Freddie Mercury – lead vocals (all tracks), backing vocals (all but 5), keyboards (1–4, 6, 7, 9, 10), drum machine (1)
- Brian May – electric guitar (all tracks), backing vocals (1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10), keyboards (8, 10), acoustic guitar (4), co-lead vocals (1, 4)
- Roger Taylor – drums (all but 9), backing vocals (1, 3–6, 10), percussion (2, 8, 10), drum machine (1, 7, 9), keyboards (5, 6), electric guitar (5), lead vocals (5, "Hijack My Heart")
- John Deacon – bass guitar (all tracks), electric guitar (1, 5, 7, 9), keyboards (7, 9)
Additional personnel
- David Richards – keyboards (4–6), sampler (8), engineering
- Assistant engineers – Andrew Bradfield, John Brough, Angelique Cooper, Claude Frider, Andy Mason, Justin Shirley-Smith
- Mastered by Kevin Metcalf and Gordon Vickary
- Computer programming by Brian Zellis
- Album sleeve design by Richard Gray
- Original photography by Simon Fowler
