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Closer to Your Heart (Clannad song)

1985 single by Clannad

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2024
Entity authorityQ5135402 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Closer to Your Heart" is a song by Irish folk rock group Clannad. It was Clannad's first single that was solely considered as pop music.

Parts of the video for the single were shot at the Ponderosa venue on Glenshane Pass near Derry.

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“Closer to Your Heart (Clannad song)” enters the record as 1985 single by Clannad. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Closer, Your and Heart can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 43-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Closer, Your and Heart.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 18, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5135402. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Closer to Your Heart (Clannad song)” 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.