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.
Track listing
All tracks by 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
Producers
Nile Rodgers
Remix produced by
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.
