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Prisoner of Love

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ1205208 ↗
Source-derived summary

Prisoner of Love may refer to:

Music

Albums

Prisoner of Love (James Brown album), 1963

Prisoner of Love: The Romantic Billy Eckstine, reissue of Timeless Billy Eckstine, 2006

Prisoner of Love, by Geoffrey Williams, 1989

Prisoner of Love (Kenny Garrett album), 1989

Songs

"Prisoner of Love" (Hikaru Utada song), 2008

"Prisoner of Love" (Miami Sound Machine song), 1984

"Prisoner of Love" (Russ Columbo song), 1931; covered by Billy Eckstine (1945), Perry Como (1945), the Ink Spots (1946), James Brown (1963), and others

"Prisoner of Love" (Tin Machine song), 1989

"Prisoner of Love", by Foreigner from The Very Best ...

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Prisoner of Love” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Prisoner, Love and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963, 2006, 1989, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Prisoner, Love and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Prisoner of Love”, the useful work is to connect “wikimedia disambiguation page” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

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 Dec 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1205208. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1963, 2006, 1989 and 2008.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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 “Prisoner of Love” 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.