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Love Will Tear Us Apart

original song written, composed, and performed by Joy Division
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Love Will Tear Us Apart

Summary

Love Will Tear Us Apart is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,476 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Love Will Tear Us Apart's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart's instance of is recorded as music track with vocals[4].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart's composer is recorded as Ian Curtis[5].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart's composer is recorded as Bernard Sumner[6].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart's composer is recorded as Stephen Morris[7].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart's composer is recorded as Peter Hook[8].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart's genre is synth-pop[9].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart's genre is gothic rock[10].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart was performed by Joy Division[11].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart was performed by Paul Young[12].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart was performed by Swans[13].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart was performed by Nouvelle Vague[14].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart's language of work or name is recorded as English[15].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart was published on 1980[16].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart's lyricist is recorded as Ian Curtis[17].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart's lyricist is recorded as Peter Hook[18].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart's lyricist is recorded as Stephen Morris[19].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart's lyricist is recorded as Bernard Sumner[20].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart's described at URL is recorded as https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/pop-co/pop-co-20-aout-2019[21].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'}[22].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart's different from is recorded as Love Will Tear Us Apart[23].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart's form of creative work is recorded as song[24].
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart's music mood is recorded as gloomy[25].

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

  • Release type: Song[26]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 981c28f8-26db-3347-9975-7e18ad91a81b[27]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Performers include Joy Division[11], Paul Young[12], Swans[13], and Nouvelle Vague[14].

Publication

Love Will Tear Us Apart was released on 1980[16]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[15]. Genres include synth-pop[9] and gothic rock[10].

Why It Matters

Love Will Tear Us Apart ranks in the top 1% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,476 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

Related Entities

Ian Curtis Joy Division

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . allmusic.com. allmusic.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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

  1. [26] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → English
    Performer → Joy Division, Paul Young, Swans +1
    Form of creative work → song
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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