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Man of Devotion

single by Fools Garden

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ6746386 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Man of Devotion" is the second single from the album Ready for the Real Life by German pop band Fools Garden.

Volkswagen used "Man of Devotion" in a commercial for Volkswagen Polo.

Track listing

Man of Devotion (radio version)

Daihaminkay (call this world remix)

Man of Devotion (the rain house demotape)

Original version of "Daihaminkay" on the album Ready for the Real Life.

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The public source identifies “Man of Devotion” as single by Fools Garden. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Devotion, single and Fools.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 63-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Devotion, single and Fools providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Man of Devotion” 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.