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Bête Noire
Featured in Episode
Artist(s)
Top Chart Position (Hot 100)
Did Not Chart
Year Released
1987
Album
Bête Noire
Writer(s)
Bryan Ferry & Patrick Leonard
RIAA Certification
NONE
Sequence song appears
1. Opening scene of party in "Blood & Roses" 2. Tubbs & Maria talk & nearly kiss in "To Have and to Hold"
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"Bête Noire" is a song by Bryan Ferry, featured on the album Bête Noire in 1987. It appeared in the Miami Vice episodes "To Have and to Hold" and "Blood & Roses".

Notes[]

  • Bête Noire is French for "an object or abstract idea that is particularly disliked or avoided".
  • Another song from the album, "Kiss and Tell" was featured in the Michael J. Fox-Keifer Sutherland movie Bright Lights, Big City.
  • A first season episode of NCIS was also called "Bête Noire", and featured the first appearance of terrorist antagonist Ari Haswari, the half-brother of Mossad liaison Ziva David.