About the band: Passengers were not a real band, but the name given to a once-off collaboration of U2, Brian Eno, and guests, recording one album. Passengers currently have one song in my list of about 200 best pop/rock songs of all time.
About the song: Miss Sarajevo, a track from from the 1995 album Original soundtracks 1, featured one of the more unlikely combinations of the nineties - or any decade for that matter. Bono and other members of U2, and Pavarotti, larger than life opera star. Add production by Eno, and something special emerges. Combinations like this usually do not work - Barcelona (Mercury with Montserrat) and Perhaps love (Denver and Domingo) come to mind. However, Passengers pull it off. Bono delivers the simple yet haunting melody in a more restrained fashion than usually with U2, and the moment that Luciano Pavarotti enters the scene is one of the most memorable 'musicules' in the history of pop and rock music. Breathtaking. Run time 5:40.
