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A Life by Design?

2013 album by Fight or Flight

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 21, 2024
Entity authorityQ18713699 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Life by Design? is the only studio album by American hard rock band Fight or Flight, released on July 23, 2013. The debut single, "First of the Last", was released on May 7, 2013, with its radio airplay beginning on May 21, 2013.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “A Life by Design?” as 2013 album by Fight or Flight. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Life, Design and album.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2013. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Life, Design and album providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 21, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q18713699. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “A Life by Design?” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.