Miracles (Jefferson Starship song)

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"Miracles" is a song written by Marty Balin and originally recorded by Jefferson Starship, appearing on their 1975 album Red Octopus .

"Miracles" peaked at number 3 for three weeks on Hot 100's Billboard, making it the highest single chart ever recorded by the name of Jefferson Starship, and also charted higher than any band recorded in his previous incarnation as Jefferson Airplane. (However, the band will continue to have three number 1 hits under its incarnation later as Starship.)

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Background and writing

The song was inspired in part by Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba, whose followers believe he is a miracle maker. It was also partly inspired by a woman Balin loved at the time. According to Jeff Tamarkin's book, Have a Revolution! The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Aeroplane, Balin worked on the song "for some time" and "slowly but deliberately made" it. However, writer Robert Yehling has written that Balin wrote songs in 30 minutes or wrote the lyrics in 45 minutes. According to Balin, when he presented the song to the other band members, "Everybody goes, 'I do not know about that, it's very strange, man." I'm really worried; no one likes it. But I said to myself, after about five days, 'Maybe they're wrong.' "

To secure more radio broadcasts for the song, the full-length version of "Miracles" (6 minutes, 52 seconds) is cut more than half the length for the single, which is released in 3 minutes duration. , 25 seconds. This editing is done not only for its length, but to remove the sexual references in the line "I have a sense of the real world when I come down on you, girl."

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Critical reception
Commenting on the recording of the band Miracles, Jeff Tamarkin writes: "[Larry] Cox nailed production - nothing is wasted, out of place, shiny strings, contemporary keyboard sound and Grace [Slick] and Harmony Paul [Kantner] relatively traditional. ] Freiberg came up with an impressive signature organ riff that unlocks the song and Craig [Chaquico] with a fresh supply of delicious guitar sounds.Marty is in the most open, singing his love words like he has not been for years - without a bit of irony or awkwardness he used the word 'baby' at least 25 times.... "
After releasing the single, Billboard magazine listed "Miracles" among Top Single Picks, which showed that the review panel predicted to reach the top 30 of the Hot 100. The magazine commented, "With the top 10 LP under the belt they, the rejuvenated Starship (with Marty Balin back as a full-fledged member) came up with an easy rocker type that highlights the early days of Airplane.Voice exchange between Balin and Grace Slick the highest point of the record. "
Looking at Balin's solo concert in 1981, the New York Times critic Stephen Holden called "Miracles" a "little masterpiece of the pillow talk pillow" of Balin.
Dave Marsh and James Bernard listed "Miracles" among the "Best Songs to Deliver Sensor" at New Stone Book List . In the same book, they also explain "I have a sense of the real world/When I descend on you, girl" as "The Most Off-Color Line in LP Version of the Number One Hit" (though "Miracle" does, in fact, hit # 1).
In 1998, Balin received a plaque from Broadcast Music Incorporated, a rights-performance organization that monitors music performances on radio and elsewhere, admitting that "Miracles" has reached 2 million shows.

William Ruhlmann, writing on the All Rock Classified Requirements List: Classic Rock , commented, "[T] here can be little doubt that Balin is an irresistible ballad song 'Miracles,' the biggest hit single in Jefferson Whatever the catalog, which drives Red Octopus to the top of the charts.... It must be a sweet justification for Balin, who founded Jefferson Airplane, but later drifted away from the group as he moved away from his music.Now, the collective combining flavors without integrating them - 'Miracles,' with their own strings and saxophones by non-Irv Cox members, hardly a hallmark of Aeroplane/Starship.

The New Rolling Stone Album Guide , published in 2004, states that "with Marty Balin 'Miracles,' Octopus The big target, the band began to shift to the direction of schmaltz.. Balin now sounds like a lounge singer.... "

Philip Dodd, at The Book of Rock: From 1950 to today , describes "Miracles" as "extraordinary".