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Verkligen

1996 album by Kent

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ1755202 ↗
Source-derived summary

Verkligen (Swedish for Really) is the second studio album by Swedish alternative rock band Kent. It was released on 15 March 1996, exactly one year after their self-titled debut album.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Verkligen.

Editorial summary

“Verkligen” enters the record as 1996 album by Kent. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Verkligen, album and Kent can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Verkligen, album and Kent.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Verkligen” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Verkligen, album and Kent provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1755202. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Verkligen”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Verkligen primary sources, Verkligen archive and Verkligen research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “Verkligen” 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.