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The Miracle

The Miracle
The striking album cover, showing the four band members merge together, is echoed in the song-writing credits where all songs are attributed to ‘Queen’. A diverse and eclectic album ranging from the heavy rock of ‘I Want It All’ to the driving pop of ‘Breakthru’. Containing five top 30 hits, this album showed Queen at their most productive, with bonus tracks for the CD and also B-sides.

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Tracks
1. Party
2. Khashoggi’s Ship
3. The Miracle
4. I Want It All
5. The Invisible Man
6. Breakthru
7. Rain Must Fall
8. Scandal
9. My Baby Does Me
10. Was It All Worth It

Extra Tracks (CD Only)

11. Hang on In There
12. Chinese Torture
13. The Invisible Man (12” Version)

All Tracks Written By Queen (Mercury, May, Taylor and Deacon)

Did You Know?
1. The album cover was the first to employ advanced computer techniques using a Quantel Graphic Paintbox.
2. A copy of the album was sold before its release on BBC Radio in aid of The Hillsborough Fund (disaster in which 95 football fans died).
3. ‘The Miracle’ featured 5 top 30 hits singles. Namely ‘I Want It All’, ‘The Invisible Man’, ‘Breakthru’, ‘Scandal’ and ‘The Miracle’.
4. It was the first time all album tracks were written by Queen as a band. Previous albums had all tracks listed as written by the individual band members unless otherwise stated.
5. Queen did not promote the album by touring or performing any live shows.

Album Details
Release Date – UK 22 May 1989 / US 6 June 1989
Highest Chart Position – UK No.1 / US No.24
Number Of Weeks On Chart – UK 37 /US 14
Producers – Queen and David Richards
Engineer – David Richards
Assistant engineers – Andrew Bradfield, John Brough, Angelique Cooper, Claude Frider, Andy Mason & Justin Shirley -Smith
Recording Studios – Olympic, Townhouse and Mountain
Date Recorded – January 1988 – January 1989
Artwork Concept – Queen
Award Status – Platinum (UK) Gold (US)

1991 Hollywood Records remasters included the tracks
Hang On In There, Chinese Torture and Scandal 12

Singles
I Want It All / b-side Hang On In There
Release Date – UK 2 May 1989 / US 10 May 1989
Highest Chart Position – UK No.3 / US No.50

Breakthru / b-side Stealin’ (UK) I Want It All (US)
Release Date – UK 19 June 1989 / US 28 June 1989
Highest Chart Position – UK No 7 / US –

The Invisible Man / b-side Hijack My Heart
Release Date – UK 7 August 1989
Highest Chart Position – UK No.12

Scandal / b-side My Live Has Been Saved
Release Date – UK 9 October 1989 / US 11 October 1989
Highest Chart Position – UK No.25 / US –

The Miracle (remix) / b-side Stone Cold Crazy (live)
Release Date – UK 29 Novemeber 1989
Highest Chart Position – UK No.21

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