| "Best Friend" | ||||
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| Single by the Beat | ||||
| from the album I Just Can't Stop It | ||||
| A-side | "Stand Down Margaret" | |||
| Released | 8 August 1980[1] | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 3:02 | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Bob Sargeant | |||
| The Beat singles chronology | ||||
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"Best Friend" is a song by British ska/new wave band the Beat, released on 8 August 1980 as the fourth and final single from their debut studio album I Just Can't Stop It. It was released as a double A-side single with a dub version of "Stand Down Margaret". The single wasn't as successful as the band's previous singles and only peaked at number 22 on the UK Singles Chart.[2] The band raised 14 thousand pounds from the sales of the single, which went to the Anti-Nuclear Campaign and the CND.[3][4]
- ^ "News" (PDF). Record Mirror. 2 August 1980. p. 4. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
UKwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Rachel 2016, p. 280.
- ^ Rachel, Daniel (8 September 2016). Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge. Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4472-7270-0.