Do You Believe in Miracles?
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| Single by Slade | ||||
| from the album Crackers – The Christmas Party Album | ||||
| B-side | "My Oh My (Swing Version)" | |||
| Released | 22 November 1985 | |||
| Format | 7" Single, 12" single | |||
| Genre | Pop rock | |||
| Length | 4:11 | |||
| Label | RCA Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Noddy Holder, Jim Lea | |||
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John Punter (A-Side) Monty Babson ("My Oh My (Swing Version)") Jim Lea (Other B-Sides) |
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"Do You Believe in Miracles" is a song by the British rock band Slade, released in 1985 as a single which was included on the band's studio/compilation album Crackers: The Christmas Party Album. It was written by lead vocalist Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea, and produced by John Punter. It reached No. 54 in the UK, remaining in the charts for six weeks.
Following their 1985 studio album Rogues Gallery, Slade were approached by Telstar to create a Christmas-related party album. Alongside this new project, the band recorded a charity single, "Do You Believe in Miracles", which was released in November 1985. The single raised funds for charity, with all publishing royalties being donated equally to the Band Aid Trust and British Children in Need (N.S.P.C.C.). Despite receiving regular airplay on radio, the song peaked at No. 54 in the UK. In a 1988 fan club interview, Lea revealed: "Certainly a few thousand pounds have been paid over and I keep getting these very nice letters all the time saying "Thank you very much, Mr Lea"."
"Do You Believe in Miracles" was inspired by Bob Geldof and the benefit concert Live Aid, which Slade were not invited to perform at. Holder's lyrics reflected his thoughts on Geldof's achievement with Live Aid, while also referencing Slade's past encounter with him in the late 1970s, at a time when the band's popularity was low. Appearing on the TV show Juice in 1985, Lea spoke of the song: "It's about Bob Geldof actually and when the group was down the nick he came to see us, and he said "How can a group that's so big be playing a little club like you're playing now". And we said "Well, we just decided to carry on, we didn't want to pack up." And he said "Oh, I couldn't do that" but he did, and then he did the Live Aid thing, and I thought it was worth writing a song about."
Later in 1986, Lea recalled of the song's airplay: ""Do You Believe in Miracles" was played to death on the beeb. I really believed in that record." Drummer Don Powell said: "It didn't do too well chartwise, but it had every radio play in the book really. I could never turn the radio on without hearing it played. We did quite a few T.V. shows to promote it - but when we recorded them, when the record first came out - all the T.V. shows centred around Christmas, so we missed out on the initial thing. If we'd have had those T.V.'s when the record was actually released, that would have helped a lot more."
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