Miss Sarajevo

"Miss Sarajevo"
Single by Passengers featuring Luciano Pavarotti
from the album Original Soundtracks 1
B-side	"Bottoms (Watashitachi no Ookina Yume)" "Viva Davidoff"
Released	20 November 1995
Studio	Westside (London) Hanover (Dublin)
Genre	Rock opera
Length	5:41 (album version) 5:19 (single edit) 4:32 (radio edit)
Label	Island
Songwriter(s)	Brian Eno Bono Adam Clayton The Edge Larry Mullen Jr.
Producer(s)	U2 Brian Eno
U2 singles chronology
"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" (1995) "Miss Sarajevo" (1995) "Discothèque" (1997)

"Miss Sarajevo" is a song by Irish rock band U2 and British musician Brian Eno, credited to the pseudonym "Passengers". It was released on 20 November 1995 as the only single from their album Original Soundtracks 1. Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti makes a vocal appearance, singing the opera solo. The song was written about a group of women who held a beauty pageant during the Siege of Sarajevo as an act of defiance.

"Miss Sarajevo" 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 enter the US Billboard Hot 100, it reached number six on the UK Singles Chart and was a top-10 hit in many other European countries. U2 vocalist Bono cites "Miss Sarajevo" as his favourite U2 song.^[1]