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My Lighthouse

1983 single by Pulp

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ4044702 ↗
Source-derived summary

"My Lighthouse" is the first single by British band Pulp, released in 1983 and taken from the band's debut album It. The song is a gentle acoustic ballad. It was performed live as part of Pulp's 2012 appearance at the Royal Albert Hall for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Jarvis Cocker and Simon Hinkler.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “My Lighthouse” is 1983 single by Pulp. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lighthouse, single and Pulp, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1983-05-02. For this dossier, Lighthouse, single and Pulp is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “1983 single by Pulp” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4044702. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1983 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “My Lighthouse” 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.