Belfast Child

"Belfast Child" is a 1989 song by Scottish band Simple Minds and is the leading single from their eighth studio album Street Fighting Years. It went to number 1 in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Ireland and also went to the top ten in New Zealand, Belgium, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Italy and Spain.

"Belfast Child [Ballad of the Streets]"
Single by Simple Minds
from 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] ""This Is Your Land"
(1989)

Track listings

7" vinyl

* UK, Germany: Virgin / SMX 3
  • France: Virgin / 90496
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Belfast Child"   6:39
Side two
No. Title Length
2. "Mandela Day"   5:42

12" vinyl

* UK: Virgin / SMXT 3
  • UK: Virgin / SMX BS (limited edition box set, including 4 black-and-white photographs from the music video)
  • France: Virgin / 80432
  • Germany: Virgin / 611 998
  • Yugoslavia: Jugoton /MXSVIRG 18016
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Belfast Child"   6:39
Side two
No. Title Length
2. "Mandela Day"   5:42
3. "Biko"   7:31

CD

* UK: Virgin / SMXCD3 (3")
  • UK: Virgin / SMXCDT3 (5")
No. Title Length
1. "Belfast Child"   6:39
2. "Mandela Day"   5:42
3. "Biko"   7:31

References

  1. McAlphine, Fraser (20 November 2017). "10 British chart-toppers that no one talks about anymore". BBC. Retrieved 2 October 2018.