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Horslips

Irish rock band
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Horslips

Summary

Horslips is a musical group[1]. Horslips ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (355 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Horslips's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Horslips's genre is Celtic rock[4].
  • Horslips's record label is recorded as Atco Records[5].
  • Horslips's Commons category is recorded as Horslips[6].
  • Horslips's country of origin is recorded as Ireland[7].
  • January 1, 1970 marks the founding of Horslips[8].
  • Horslips's location of formation is recorded as Dublin[9].
  • Horslips's official website is recorded as http://www.horslips.com/[10].
  • Horslips's start of work period is recorded as 1970[11].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[12]

  • Country: IE[13]

  • Began / founded: 1970[14]

  • Ended / dissolved: 2019-01[15]

  • Genre(s): celtic, celtic rock, folk, folk rock, progressive folk, progressive rock[16]

  • Community tags: celtic, celtic folk music, celtic rock, folk, folk rock, irish, irish folk music, progressive folk, progressive rock[17]

  • MusicBrainz ID: cdec5425-518d-4311-925b-ffbce165f4a0[18]

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Founding

January 1, 1970 marks the founding of Horslips[8]. Horslips's location of formation is recorded as Dublin[9].

Why It Matters

Horslips ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (355 views/month).[2] Horslips has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19]

Related Entities

Ireland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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