Belfast Child
| "Belfast Child [Ballad of the Streets]" | ||||
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| Single by Simple Minds | ||||
| from the album Street Fighting Years | ||||
| B-side |
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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 | |||
| Simple Minds singles chronology | ||||
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"Belfast Child" is a 1989 song by Scottish band Simple Minds and is the leading single from their eighth studio album Street Fighting Years. It went to number 1 in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Ireland and also went to the top ten in New Zealand, Belgium, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Italy and Spain.
Track listings
7" vinyl
* UK, Germany: Virgin / SMX 3
- France: Virgin / 90496
| Side one | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "Belfast Child" | 6:39 | |||||||
| Side two | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 2. | "Mandela Day" | 5:42 | |||||||
12" vinyl
* UK: Virgin / SMXT 3
- UK: Virgin / SMX BS (limited edition box set, including 4 black-and-white photographs from the music video)
- France: Virgin / 80432
- Germany: Virgin / 611 998
- Yugoslavia: Jugoton /MXSVIRG 18016
| Side one | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "Belfast Child" | 6:39 | |||||||
| Side two | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 2. | "Mandela Day" | 5:42 | |||||||
| 3. | "Biko" | 7:31 | |||||||
CD
* UK: Virgin / SMXCD3 (3")
- UK: Virgin / SMXCDT3 (5")
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Belfast Child" | 6:39 |
| 2. | "Mandela Day" | 5:42 |
| 3. | "Biko" | 7:31 |
References
- ↑ McAlphine, Fraser (20 November 2017). "10 British chart-toppers that no one talks about anymore". BBC. Retrieved 2 October 2018.