Miss Sarajevo
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| Single by Passengers featuring Luciano Pavarotti | |||||||||||||||||
| from the album Original Soundtracks 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Bottoms (Watashitachi no Ookina Yume)" "Viva Davidoff" |
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| Released | 20 November 1995 | ||||||||||||||||
| Format | CD single, CD maxi, cassette, 7" single |
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| Recorded | August 1995 | ||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Rock, opera | ||||||||||||||||
| Length | 5:41 (Album version) 5:19 (Single edit) 4:32 (Radio edit) |
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| Label | Island | ||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Brian Eno | ||||||||||||||||
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"Miss Sarajevo" is the only single from the 1995 album Original Soundtracks 1 by U2 and Brian Eno, under the pseudonym "Passengers". Luciano Pavarotti makes a guest vocal appearance, singing the opera solo. It also appears on U2's compilation, The Best of 1990-2000, and was covered by George Michael on his album, Songs from the Last Century. While the song did not reach the Billboard Hot 100, it reached No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart and was a top-ten hit in many other European countries. Bono, the band's lead vocalist, cites "Miss Sarajevo" as his favourite U2 song.
American journalist Bill Carter suggested to Bono an idea to film a documentary based on Sarajevo's underground resistance movement. Not only did Bono produce the film, he also provided the funds needed to support the project. Taken from the sleeves notes to Original Soundtracks 1:
Bono went on to say that he felt that these lyrics reflected what the people of Sarajevo were feeling at the time. Original Soundtracks 1 is an album of songs based mostly on non-existent films; however, "Miss Sarajevo" is one of four tracks from the album that are based on real films. The film Miss Sarajevo is a documentary by Bill Carter about a beauty pageant held in the midst of war-torn Sarajevo, Bosnia. The winner was a 17-year-old blonde named Inela Nogić. Carter travelled to Sarajevo in the winter of 1993 to offer humanitarian aid and quickly found himself in the heart of the conflict. He lived for six months in a burnt-out office building, subsisting on baby food and whatever water he could find in the rivers and sewers and delivering food and medicine to those in need.
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