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| "Belfast Child [Ballad of the Streets]" | ||||
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| Single by Simple Minds | ||||
| from the album Street Fighting Years | ||||
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| Released | 6 February 1989 | |||
| Genre | Progressive folk[1] | |||
| Length | 6:39 | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Music: traditional Lyrics: Simple Minds (Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill and Mick MacNeil) | |||
| Producer(s) | Trevor Horn, Stephen Lipson | |||
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"Belfast Child" is a song by the Scottish band Simple Minds, first released as the lead track on the Ballad of the Streets EP on 6 February 1989.[2] The EP also included "Mandela Day". The record reached number one on the UK Singles Chart as well as in Ireland and the Netherlands, and it became a top-ten hit in Belgium, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and West Germany.
- ^ McAlphine, Fraser (20 November 2017). "10 British chart-toppers that no one talks about anymore". BBC. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
- ^ "Never Mind". Record Mirror. London, England: Spotlight Publications: 4. 21 January 1989.