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Love Will Tear Us Apart

original song written, composed, and performed by Joy Division
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Summary

Love Will Tear Us Apart is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of musical work composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,639 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: music track with vocals[3]
  • Composer: Ian Curtis[4], Bernard Sumner[5], Stephen Morris[6], Peter Hook[7]
  • Genre: synth-pop[8], gothic rock[9]
  • Performer: Joy Division[10], Paul Young[11], Swans[12], Nouvelle Vague[13]
  • Language of work or name: English[14]
  • Publication date: 1980[15]
  • Lyricist: Ian Curtis[16], Peter Hook[17], Stephen Morris[18], Bernard Sumner[19]
  • Described at URL: https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/pop-co/pop-co-20-aout-2019[20]
  • Title: Love Will Tear Us Apart[21]
  • Different from: Love Will Tear Us Apart[22]
  • Form of creative work: song[23]
  • Music mood: gloomy[24]

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[25]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 981c28f8-26db-3347-9975-7e18ad91a81b[26]

Why It Matters

Love Will Tear Us Apart has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Related Entities

Ian Curtis Joy Division

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . allmusic.com. allmusic.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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

  1. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 24w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → English
    Performer → Joy Division, Paul Young, Swans +1
    Form of creative work → song
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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