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Cruel to Be Kind

1979 single by Nick Lowe
VisualArtwork single Q5189905
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Cruel to Be Kind

Summary

Cruel to Be Kind is a single[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of single entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (604 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cruel to Be Kind's instance of is recorded as single[3].
  • Cruel to Be Kind's genre is power pop[4].
  • Cruel to Be Kind was performed by Nick Lowe[5].
  • Cruel to Be Kind's record label is recorded as Radar Records[6].
  • Cruel to Be Kind was released on August 1979[7].
  • Cruel to Be Kind's single taken from the album or EP is recorded as Labour of Lust[8].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • MusicBrainz ID: 0200cf5b-5b7d-38e6-aada-b15fad8d03aa[9]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Cruel to Be Kind was performed by Nick Lowe[5].

Publication

Cruel to Be Kind was released on August 1979[7]. Its genre is power pop[4].

Why It Matters

Cruel to Be Kind ranks in the top 3% of single entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (604 views/month).[2]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [9] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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