MIRACLE
 
Artist Willy DeVille (featuring Mark Knopfler)
Release date 1987
Recording Studio, London, UK
Format 1CD
Label Polygram International Music B.V.
Cat.no. 833669-2
Tracks
  1. (Due to) gun control
  2. Could you would you
  3. Heart and soul
  4. Assassin of love
  5. Spanish Jack
  6. Miracle
  7. Angel eyes
  8. Nightfalls
  9. Southern politician
  10. Storybook love
    11.
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Additional comments In 1987, Willy DeVille released his album Mircale. Mark Knopfler produced all tracks and also played guitar on all of these tracks. The song Spanish Jack was co-written by Willy DeVille and Mark Knopfler. The album includes what is probably the best known Willy DeVille song Storybook love. The song was the theme of the movie The Princess Bride (for which Mark Knopfler composed the film music) and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1987. DeVille performed it at that year’s Academy Award ceremony.

Willy DeVille about Storybook love:
Mark heard Storybook love and asked if I knew about this movie he was doing. It was a Rob Reiner film about a princess and a prince. The song was about the same subject matter as the film, so we submitted it to Reiner and he loved it.

Willy DeVille told in an interview:
It was Mark (Knopfler’s) wife Lourdes who came up with the idea (to record Miracle). She said to him that you don't sing like Willy and he doesn't play guitar like you, but you really like his stuff so why don't you do an album together? So I went over to London to do this album. It wasn't easy because we didn't want it to sound like a Dire Straits album, and his guitar playing is so unique that it was hard to do. But nothing good is going to be easy. I know that I spent the whole time really trying to impress Mark, I wanted it to be good.