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| rdfs:label | - Cruel to be Kind
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| rdfs:comment | - "Cruel to Be Kind" is a 1979 single by Nick Lowe, co-written by Lowe and his former Brinsley Schwarz band-mate Ian Gomm, that peaked at #12 in both the British andUS charts that summer. Coincidentally, it also peaked at #12 in both Canada and New Zealand. In the US, where it is Lowe's most well-known work, it remains his only single to hit the top 40, whereas in the UK "I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass" remains his biggest hit after reaching #7 a year earlier.
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| Text | - Rona still looks shocked. "Sansa Stark and Tyrion Lannister, yes, my [lord/lady]. A logical move by Lord Tywin, but a cruel ones as well."
- "Tyrion's feelings do not matter, and the girl's less so. This is a profitable match."
- "To marry one you do not love... perhaps we can save Tyrion from this fate."
- Groat shrugs. "The marriage will bind the Lannisters and the Tyrells with a double knot. Much harder to break than a single one."
- "And what of this other marriage? Cersei Lannister and Loras Tyrell? Surely they don't..."
- "More wise than cruel, I say. This will give us a claim in the North?"
- "Sansa brings nothing but her name to the marriage. I'm more impressed with the Tyrells."
- "Cruel? Is that an insult against Tyrion Lannister?
- Rona narrows her eyes. "The Lannisters are responsible for Lord Eddard's death. Tyrion seems quite happy with his Shae. Cruel, by any measure."
- "The maester nods. "Should anything happen to her brother Robb, Sansa would be the heir to Winterfell... or what remains of it."
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| Speaker | - Maester Lucas
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| abstract | - "Cruel to Be Kind" is a 1979 single by Nick Lowe, co-written by Lowe and his former Brinsley Schwarz band-mate Ian Gomm, that peaked at #12 in both the British andUS charts that summer. Coincidentally, it also peaked at #12 in both Canada and New Zealand. In the US, where it is Lowe's most well-known work, it remains his only single to hit the top 40, whereas in the UK "I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass" remains his biggest hit after reaching #7 a year earlier. "Cruel To Be Kind" was released on the Radar Records label in the UK and Columbia Records in the USA. It was originally featured on Lowe’s second solo albumLabour of Lust. The video to the song was one of the first music videos aired on MTV, and is a humorous re-enactment of Lowe's wedding to Carlene Carter, featuring Carter herself and Dave Edmunds as their limo driver. This version of the song has been included in many compilations of Lowe’s work, including 1985’s 16 All Time Lowes, 1990’s Basher: The Best of Nick Lowe, 1999’s The Doings: The Solo Years, 2002’s Anthology and 2009’s Quiet Please... The New Best of Nick Lowe. It has also been included on many various artists compilations of hits of the 70s, such as Poptopia! 70’s Power Pop Classics. The single was backed with the non-album Lowe solo song "Endless Grey Ribbon" which Lowe had originally composed for fellow Rockpile member Dave Edmunds, as seen in the BBC documentary "Born Fighters". Lowe included the Labour of Lust version of the song on the 1984 12" single of "Half a Boy and Half a Man" off his album Nick Lowe and his Cowboy Outfit, as well as the EP version of his single "All Men are Liars" from 1990’s Party of One. It also appears on the 2010 "soundtrack" album "inspired" by the 2006 motion picture The Ant Bully. Live versions of the song appear on Lowe’s 1998 EP "You Inspire Me", off his Dig My Mood album, and on the 2004 live album Untouched Takeaway. The song was originally written and recorded for the last Brinsley Schwarz album It’s All Over Now, which was never officially released. It next appeared as a non-albumB-side on the single "Little Hitler" off Lowe’s first solo album Jesus of Cool (Pure Pop for Now People in the U.S.). This is now known as the "original" or "slow" version, as compiled on Lowe’s 1999 Box Set The Doings: The Solo Years.
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