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Breaking Us in Two
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Breaking Us in Two
| cover = Breaking_Us_in_Two_-_Joe_Jackson.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Joe Jackson
| album = Night and Day
| B-side = Target
| released = 13 August 1982
| recorded = 1982
| studio =
| genre = Sophisti-pop
| length = 4:35 (album version) 3:45 (single version)
| label = A&M
| writer = Joe Jackson
| producer = Joe Jackson, David Kershenbaum
| prev_title = Steppin' Out
| prev_year = 1982
| next_title = Another World
| next_year = 1982
| misc =
}}
"'Breaking Us in Two'" is a song by British musician Joe Jackson. It was the third of three charting singles from his 1982 LP, 'Night and Day'.
The single was released in the UK on 13 August 1982, backed with a song called "El Blanco", which was simply Jackson's song "Target" sung in Spanish. In the US, the B-side was the regular English version of "Target". The single began to get radio airplay in late 1982 and early 1983, especially in the US where the music video was in medium rotation on MTV in early February. By mid-March the single had become a hit in the US, reaching number 18 on the 'Billboard' Hot 100. Later, it reached number 40 in Canada. It also charted in the UK and Australia. It was a bigger Adult Contemporary hit, reaching number eight in the U.S. and number 12 in Canada.
The music video was filmed on location in and around the Oakworth railway station in England.
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