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The Very Best of Elkie Brooks (1997 album)

1997 compilation album by Elkie Brooks

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ7772308 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Very Best of Elkie Brooks is a compilation album by Elkie Brooks. Compiled in 1997, it was released on CD and cassette by PolyGram TV.

The album reached number 23 and remained in the UK charts for 7 weeks. It re-entered the charts in 1998.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Very Best of Elkie Brooks (1997 album)” is 1997 compilation album by Elkie Brooks. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Very, Best and Elkie, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1997, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997-01-01. For this dossier, Very, Best and Elkie is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1997 compilation album by Elkie Brooks” 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.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7772308. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997 and 1998.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. 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 “The Very Best of Elkie Brooks (1997 album)” 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.