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Heaven Coming Down

1999 single by The Tea Party

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ17009231 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Heaven Coming Down" is a song by Canadian rock band The Tea Party. It was released as a single in Australia and France and as a promotional single in Canada. "Heaven Coming Down" is The Tea Party's sole number-one single in Canada, reaching the top of the RPM Rock Report. The song was nominated for "Best Single" at the 2000 Juno Awards.

Content

It is a rock composition of heavy drums, chiming 12-string Rickenbacker guitar with bass and keyboard accompaniment.

Editorial summary

“Heaven Coming Down” enters the record as 1999 single by The Tea Party. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Heaven, Coming and Down can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999-05. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Heaven, Coming and Down.
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“Heaven Coming Down” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Heaven, Coming and Down provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17009231. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Heaven Coming Down” 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.