Belfast Child

"Belfast Child [Ballad of the Streets]"
Single by Simple Minds
from the album Street Fighting Years
B-side
Released6 February 1989 (1989-02-06)
GenreProgressive folk[1]
Length6:39
LabelVirgin
Songwriter(s)Music: traditional
Lyrics: Simple Minds (Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill and Mick MacNeil)
Producer(s)Trevor Horn,
Stephen Lipson
Simple Minds singles chronology
"Don't You (Forget About Me)"
(1988)
"Belfast Child [Ballad of the Streets]"
(1989)
"This Is Your Land"
(1989)

"Belfast Child" is a song by the Scottish band Simple Minds, first released as the lead track on the Ballad of the Streets EP on 6 February 1989.[2] The EP also included "Mandela Day" (originally its B-side). The record reached number one on the UK Singles Chart as well as in Ireland and the Netherlands, and it became a top-ten hit in Belgium, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and West Germany.

  1. ^ McAlphine, Fraser (20 November 2017). "10 British chart-toppers that no one talks about anymore". BBC. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Never Mind". Record Mirror. London, England: Spotlight Publications: 4. 21 January 1989.

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