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Bongo Fury

1975 live album by by Frank Zappa and The Mothers with Captain Beefheart
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Bongo Fury

Summary

Bongo Fury is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (887 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Bongo Fury's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • Bongo Fury's genre is hard rock[4].
  • Bongo Fury's genre is blues rock[5].
  • Bongo Fury's genre is jazz fusion[6].
  • Bongo Fury's genre is progressive rock[7].
  • Bongo Fury's genre is comedy rock[8].
  • Bongo Fury was produced by Frank Zappa[9].
  • Among the performers on Bongo Fury was Frank Zappa[10].
  • Bongo Fury was performed by Captain Beefheart[11].
  • Among the performers on Bongo Fury was The Mothers of Invention[12].
  • Bongo Fury's record label is recorded as DiscReet[13].
  • Bongo Fury's place of publication is recorded as United States[14].
  • Bongo Fury is part of Frank Zappa's albums in chronological order[15].
  • Bongo Fury is part of Captain Beefheart's albums in chronological order[16].
  • Bongo Fury's language of work or name is recorded as English[17].
  • Bongo Fury was distributed by LP record[18].
  • Bongo Fury was published on October 2, 1975[19].
  • Bongo Fury's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Bongo Fury'}[20].
  • Bongo Fury's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11574', 'amount': '+2335'}[21].
  • Bongo Fury's form of creative work is recorded as studio album[22].
  • Bongo Fury's form of creative work is recorded as live album[23].

Product Details

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MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Album[24]

  • Secondary type(s): Live[25]

  • First release date: 1975-10-02[26]

  • Genre(s): art rock, blues rock, hard rock, proto-punk, rock[27]

  • Community tags: 1–4 wochen, album rock, art rock, blues rock, blues-rock, hard rock, offizielle charts, pop/rock, prog-rock, proto-punk, rock, rollingstone.de[28]

  • MusicBrainz ID: fffcd038-f78f-3722-880e-42c91d79a477[29]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Performers include Frank Zappa[10], Captain Beefheart[11], and The Mothers of Invention[12]. Bongo Fury was produced by Frank Zappa[9].

Publication

Bongo Fury was released on October 2, 1975[19]. Its place of publication is recorded as United States[14]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[17]. Genres include hard rock[4], blues rock[5], jazz fusion[6], progressive rock[7], and comedy rock[8]. Part of include Frank Zappa's albums in chronological order[15] and Captain Beefheart's albums in chronological order[16]. It was distributed by LP record[18].

Why It Matters

Bongo Fury ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (887 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30]

Related Entities

Captain Beefheart Frank Zappa United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  9. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [27] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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