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Alive and Kicking (song): Music, Members & Regions

"Alive and Kicking" is a song by the Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released in September 1985 by Virgin Records as the lead single from their seventh album, Once Upon a Time (1985). The song reached number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number four in Canada; it peaked within the top five of several European countries, including Italy, where it…

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Alive and Kicking (song) topic overview

The analysis highlights Music, Members and Regions as prominent areas in the source structure around Alive and Kicking (song).

Related topics
24
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
31
Extracted relationships
12
Related term clusters
18
Bridge connections
31

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Music video · 6 topics
Chart performance · 5 topics
Overview · 5 topics
Personnel · 3 topics
Appearances in media · 2 topics
East Side Beat version · 2 topics
Track listings · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Genre
Arena rock
B-side
"Up on the Catwalk" (live)
Label
Virgin
Length
5:26 (album version) · 4:47 (single version) · 6:11 (instrumental version)
Producers
Bob Clearmountain · Jimmy Iovine
Released
30 September 1985 (1985-09-30)

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Overview

Chart performance

Music video

Track listings

Personnel

Appearances in media

East Side Beat version

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How Alive and Kicking (song) connects Entity context

The extracted context around Alive and Kicking (song) shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Alive and Kicking (song) → 4:47 (single version), 5:26 (album version), 6:11 (instrumental version) Another extracted example is Alive and Kicking (song) → Charlie Burchill, Jim Kerr, Mick MacNeil. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Alive and Kicking (song)

Top relations

Length · 3
Alive and Kicking (song) → 4:47 (single version), 5:26 (album version), 6:11 (instrumental version)
Songwriters · 3
Alive and Kicking (song) → Charlie Burchill, Jim Kerr, Mick MacNeil
Producers · 2
Alive and Kicking (song) → Bob Clearmountain, Jimmy Iovine
B-side · 1
Alive and Kicking (song) → "Up on the Catwalk" (live)
Genre · 1
Alive and Kicking (song) → Arena rock
Label · 1
Alive and Kicking (song) → Virgin
Released · 1
Alive and Kicking (song) → 30 September 1985 (1985-09-30)

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Important terminology

alive kicking single number song album reached released chart music video rock 1985 version 1992 new three top five one

Alive and Kicking (song) relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 12 structured relationships around Alive and Kicking (song). Examples in this analysis include Alive and Kicking (song) → B-side → "Up on the Catwalk" (live) and Alive and Kicking (song) → Genre → Arena rock. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Alive and Kicking (song)B-side"Up on the Catwalk" (live)1.00infobox
Alive and Kicking (song)GenreArena rock1.00infobox
Alive and Kicking (song)LabelVirgin1.00infobox
Alive and Kicking (song)Length5:26 (album version)1.00infobox
Alive and Kicking (song)Length4:47 (single version)1.00infobox
Alive and Kicking (song)Length6:11 (instrumental version)1.00infobox
Alive and Kicking (song)ProducersBob Clearmountain1.00infobox
Alive and Kicking (song)ProducersJimmy Iovine1.00infobox
Alive and Kicking (song)Released30 September 1985 (1985-09-30)1.00infobox
Alive and Kicking (song)SongwritersJim Kerr1.00infobox
Alive and Kicking (song)SongwritersCharlie Burchill1.00infobox
Alive and Kicking (song)SongwritersMick MacNeil1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Alive and Kicking (song) bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Kicking, Music and New. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Alive and Kicking (song)
    • Kicking
    • Music
    • New
    • Reached
    • Canada
    • Catwalk
    • Four
    • Instrumental
    • Italy
    • Live
    • Minds
    • Peaked
  • alive and kicking (song)
    • Kicking
    • Music
    • Number
    • New
    • Reached
    • Canada
    • Catwalk
    • Four
    • Instrumental
    • Italy
    • Live
    • Minds
  • band (rock and pop)
    • Virgin
    • Released
    • Billboard
    • Catwalk
    • Charts
    • Hot
    • Instrumental
    • Live
    • Minds
    • Simple
    • Single
    • Us
  • virgin records
    • Rock
    • Released
    • Album
    • Alive
    • Billboard
    • Catwalk
    • Charts
    • Hot
    • Instrumental
    • Kicking
    • Live
    • Minds
  • once upon a time (simple minds album)
    • Minds
    • Simple
    • Released
    • Single
    • Rock
    • Virgin
    • Beat
    • Catwalk
    • East
    • Instrumental
    • Live
    • Side
  • billboard hot 100
    • Hot
    • Us
    • One
    • Three
    • Top
    • Canada
    • Catwalk
    • Charts
    • Four
    • Instrumental
    • Italy
    • Live
  • mainstream rock (chart)
    • Virgin
    • Charts
    • Released
    • One
    • Number
    • Billboard
    • Catwalk
    • Hot
    • Instrumental
    • Live
    • Minds
    • Reached
  • uk singles chart
    • Charts
    • One
    • Number
    • Reached
    • Catwalk
    • Hot
    • Instrumental
    • Italy
    • Live
    • Peaked
    • Rock
    • Us

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Alive and Kicking (song), one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Alive and Kicking (song) with Music video. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Alive and Kicking (song) — Music video · splits 25 ⟂ 7
Alive and Kicking (song) — Overview · splits 26 ⟂ 6
Alive and Kicking (song) — Chart performance · splits 26 ⟂ 6
Alive and Kicking (song) — Personnel · splits 28 ⟂ 4
Alive and Kicking (song) — Appearances in media · splits 29 ⟂ 3
Alive and Kicking (song) — East Side Beat version · splits 29 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Alive and Kicking (song)

Nodes32
Edges31
Triples12
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.0625
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Alive and Kicking (song) to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Music, Members & Regions, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Alive and Kicking (song) · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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