Best Friend (The Beat song) (original) (raw)

dbo:Work/runtime

3.033333333333333 (dbd:minute)

dbo:abstract

"Best Friend" is a song by British ska/new wave band The Beat, released on 8 August 1980 as the fourth and final single from their debut album I Just Can't Stop It. It was released as a double A-side single with a dub version of "Stand Down Margaret". The single wasn't as successful as the band's previous singles and only peaked at number 22 on the UK Singles Chart. The band raised 14 thousand pounds from the sales of the single, which went to the Anti-Nuclear Campaign and the CND. (en)

dbo:album

dbr:I_Just_Can't_Stop_It

dbo:artist

dbr:The_Beat_(British_band)

dbo:genre

dbo:previousWork

dbr:Mirror_in_the_Bathroom

dbo:producer

dbr:Bob_Sargeant

dbo:recordLabel

dbo:releaseDate

1980-08-08 (xsd:date)

dbo:runtime

182.000000 (xsd:double)

dbo:subsequentWork

dbr:Too_Nice_to_Talk_To

dbo:thumbnail

wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/The_Beat_Best_Friend.jpg?width=300

dbo:wikiPageID

65815199 (xsd:integer)

dbo:wikiPageLength

9815 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)

dbo:wikiPageRevisionID

1098263935 (xsd:integer)

dbo:wikiPageWikiLink

dbo:writer

dbp:aSide

"Stand Down Margaret" (en)

dbp:album

dbr:I_Just_Can't_Stop_It

dbp:artist

dbr:The_Beat_(British_band)

dbp:cover

File:The Beat Best Friend.jpg (en)

dbp:genre

* Ska * 2 tone (en)

dbp:label

* Go-Feet * Arista (en)

dbp:name

Best Friend (en)

dbp:nextTitle

dbr:Too_Nice_to_Talk_To

dbp:nextYear

1980 (xsd:integer)

dbp:prevTitle

dbr:Mirror_in_the_Bathroom

dbp:prevYear

1980 (xsd:integer)

dbp:producer

dbr:Bob_Sargeant

dbp:released

1980-08-08 (xsd:date)

dbp:source

0001-04-09 (xsd:gMonthDay)

dbp:text

"...what most Americans didn’t see was the complete dismantling of towns and villages, of people's lives being cut short and then cutting their own lives short because they thought, like the Sex Pistols said, that there was no future. That time signalled a breaking of the English spirit, where people who used to have each other's back, and used to talk to strangers – Thatcher turned neighbours into competitors." "She broke the unions. She sold shares of companies that the people already owned, all of which flopped in value. A generation saw their parents give up on life as they saw their own opportunities stunted. They saw the town where they'd grown up dismantled. She was very divisive." (en)

dbp:title

dbr:Stand_Down_Margaret

dbp:type

single (en)

dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate

dbp:writer

* Ranking Roger * Andy Cox * Everett Morton * David Steele * Dave Wakeling (en)

dct:subject

rdf:type

rdfs:comment

"Best Friend" is a song by British ska/new wave band The Beat, released on 8 August 1980 as the fourth and final single from their debut album I Just Can't Stop It. It was released as a double A-side single with a dub version of "Stand Down Margaret". The single wasn't as successful as the band's previous singles and only peaked at number 22 on the UK Singles Chart. The band raised 14 thousand pounds from the sales of the single, which went to the Anti-Nuclear Campaign and the CND. (en)

rdfs:label