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When Love Breaks Down

original song written, composed, and performed by Paddy McAloon; recorded by Prefab Sprout
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When Love Breaks Down

Summary

When Love Breaks Down is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (125 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • When Love Breaks Down's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • When Love Breaks Down's composer is recorded as Paddy McAloon[4].
  • When Love Breaks Down's genre is popular music[5].
  • Among the performers on When Love Breaks Down was Prefab Sprout[6].
  • When Love Breaks Down's language of work or name is recorded as English[7].
  • When Love Breaks Down was released on 1984[8].
  • When Love Breaks Down's lyricist is recorded as Paddy McAloon[9].
  • When Love Breaks Down's title is recorded as When Love Breaks Down[10].
  • When Love Breaks Down's form of creative work is recorded as song[11].

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[12]

  • Community tags: popular music[13]

  • MusicBrainz ID: ffe5393a-fda4-3208-9f89-10b813a7bafa[14]

Body

Authorship and Creation

When Love Breaks Down was performed by Prefab Sprout[6].

Publication

When Love Breaks Down was published on 1984[8]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[7]. Its genre is popular music[5].

Why It Matters

When Love Breaks Down ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (125 views/month).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . 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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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_when-love-breaks-down_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{When Love Breaks Down}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/when-love-breaks-down}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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