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Simple Minds

Belfast Child

1989 · via Simple Minds

Simple Minds’ 1989 recording of “Belfast Child” is the earliest release on file. Jim Kerr of Simple Minds is credited as its writer. Also recorded by České Srdce (released 1994), Faith & Harmony (released 2002) and Di Vi Kappa 3 (released 2017), among 30 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

Simple Minds – Belfast Child
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Jim Kerr wrote this one from inside the band, and five years after Simple Minds first recorded it, České Srdce made it their own. Put the two side by side and listen to what travels.

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Credited writer: Jim Kerr.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1989.

Other recordings on file · first release year

30 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Jim Kerr wrote "Belfast Child" for Simple Minds, and the band recorded it first. Which act cut its own version of the song in 1994?České Srdce
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