The Miracle (album)

For other albums with similar titles, see Miracle (disambiguation) § Albums.

The Miracle
Studio album by
Queen
Released22 May 1989[1]
RecordedJanuary 1988 – January 1989
Studio
Genre
Length41:22
Label
Producer
Queen chronology
Live Magic
(1986) 		The Miracle
(1989) 		At the Beeb
(1989)
Singles from The Miracle
  1. "I Want It All"
    Released: 2 May 1989
  2. "Breakthru"
    Released: 19 June 1989
  3. "The Invisible Man"
    Released: 7 August 1989
  4. "Scandal"
    Released: 9 October 1989
  5. "The Miracle"
    Released: 27 November 1989

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 U.S. respectively, where it was the band's third and final studio album to be released on latter label, and their first studio album on the former label. 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 changed 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 Top Pop Albums chart. AllMusic would name The Miracle as Queen's best album of the 1980s, along with The Game.[2] 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.

  1. ^ "First Reports: A kind of miracle". Sounds. 13 May 1989. p. 8.
  2. ^ a b Prato, Greg (6 June 1989). "The Miracle – Queen". AllMusic. Retrieved 12 August 2011.