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Struggle for Pleasure

song composed by Wim Mertens

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ2107852 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Struggle for Pleasure" is a musical piece released in 1983 by Belgian composer Wim Mertens. It is the theme music used by the Belgian phone operator Proximus. It was featured in the Peter Greenaway movie The Belly of an Architect. Energy 52's track "Café Del Mar" features a main melody based on "Struggle for Pleasure". This music was chosen for '90s television spot of Merit Cup. It was also covered by Belgian dance music group Minimalistix in 2000 and reached dance charts across Europe.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Struggle for Pleasure” as song composed by Wim Mertens. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Struggle, Pleasure and song.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1983. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Struggle, Pleasure and song 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 “Struggle for Pleasure”, the useful work is to connect “song composed by Wim Mertens” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2107852. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1983 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Struggle for Pleasure” 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.