The Miracle (album)
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| Released | 22 May 1989 | |||
| Recorded | January 1988 – January 1989 | |||
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| Length | 41:22 | |||
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The Miracle is the thirteenth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 22 May 1989 by Parlophone and Capitol Records. The album was recorded following Brian May's marital problems and Freddie Mercury's HIV diagnosis in 1987. 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 all four members 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.