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Images of Heaven: The Best of Peter Godwin

album by Peter Godwin

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 22, 2020
Entity authorityQ6002374 ↗
Source-derived summary

Images of Heaven: The Best of Peter Godwin is the first compilation album by Peter Godwin. The album was released on Feb 3, 1998.

Track listing

"Rendezvous"

"Another World"

"Naked Smile"

"Baby's in the Mountains"

"The Art of Love"

"Young Pleasure"

"The Dancer"

"Torch Songs for the Heroine" (single version)

"Emotional Disguise" (12" EP version)

"Images of Heaven" (full length version)

"Cruel Heart"

"Gemini"

"Criminal World"

"Images of Heaven" (Razormaid version)

"Baby's in the Mountains" (club version - John Luongo mix)

"Rendezvous" (French remix)

Notes

All songs written by Peter Godwin unless otherwise noted.

Editorial summary

“Images of Heaven: The Best of Peter Godwin” enters the record as album by Peter Godwin. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Images, Heaven and Best can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Images, Heaven and Best.
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“Images of Heaven: The Best of Peter Godwin” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Images, Heaven and Best provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 22, 2020. The linked authority identifier is Q6002374. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1998.

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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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Images of Heaven: The Best of Peter Godwin” 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.