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Simple Man (Noiseworks song)

1989 single by Noiseworks

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ25217877 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Simple Man" is a song by Australian rock-pop band Noiseworks. It was released in May 1989 as the third single from their second studio album Touch (1988) and peaked at number 47 on the ARIA singles chart.

Editorial summary

“Simple Man (Noiseworks song)” enters the record as 1989 single by Noiseworks. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Simple, Noiseworks and song can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989-05-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Simple, Noiseworks and song.
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“Simple Man (Noiseworks song)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Simple, Noiseworks and song provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25217877. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989 and 1988.

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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 “Simple Man (Noiseworks 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.