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Ménage à Trois (song)

2003 single by Alcazar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 14, 2024
Entity authorityQ930596 ↗
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Ménage à Trois is a song performed by Swedish band Alcazar. The song is the second single from their second album, Alcazarized, and it was set to be the first released internationally.

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A music video was produced to promote the single.

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“Ménage à Trois (song)” enters the record as 2003 single by Alcazar. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ménage, Trois and song can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ménage à Trois (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.