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What About Tomorrows Children

1991 single by Maggie Reilly

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 23, 2021
Entity authorityQ7990950 ↗
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"What About Tomorrows Children" is a pop song by Scottish singer Maggie Reilly. It was released by Empire Records as the first single from her debut studio album Echoes (1992). The song was produced by Harald Steinhauer and Kristian Schultze. The single peaked at number thirty on Dutch Singles Chart.

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The public source identifies “What About Tomorrows Children” as 1991 single by Maggie Reilly. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around What, Tomorrows and Children.

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—1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with What, Tomorrows and Children providing the first useful test.
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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 Apr 23, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q7990950. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “What About Tomorrows Children” 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.