Brilliant Disguise

"Brilliant Disguise"
Single by Bruce Springsteen
from the album Tunnel of Love
B-side"Lucky Man"
ReleasedSeptember 17, 1987[1]
RecordedFebruary – March 1987[2]
StudioThrill Hill East (Springsteen's home studio)
GenrePop rock
Length4:13
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Bruce Springsteen
Producer(s)Jon Landau, Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Plotkin
Bruce Springsteen singles chronology
"Fire"
(1987) 		"Brilliant Disguise"
(1987) 		"Tunnel of Love"
(1987)
Audio sample

"Brilliant Disguise" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1987 album Tunnel of Love. It was released as the first single from the album, reaching the No. 5 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock chart in the United States.[3] The follow-up single, "Tunnel of Love", also reached No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, giving Springsteen two consecutive No. 1's.[3] The single reached the top 10 in four additional countries including Canada and Ireland and the top 20 in Australia, Netherlands and the United Kingdom. "Brilliant Disguise" was nominated for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 1988 Grammy Awards.

  1. ^ "Retail - Single." Brucebase, 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference BruceBase was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b "Bruce Springsteen Chart History". Retrieved 2008-08-04.