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Rockpile

British band
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Rockpile

Summary

Rockpile is a musical group[1]. Rockpile ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (444 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Rockpile's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Rockpile's genre is rock music[4].
  • Rockpile's genre is new wave[5].
  • Rockpile's record label is recorded as F-Beat Records[6].
  • Rockpile's record label is recorded as Columbia Records[7].
  • Rockpile's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[8].
  • Rockpile comprises Nick Lowe[9].
  • 1976 marks the founding of Rockpile[10].
  • Rockpile's location of formation is recorded as Finchley[11].
  • Rockpile's start of work period is recorded as 1976[12].

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[13]

  • Country: GB[14]

  • Began / founded: 1976[15]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1981[16]

  • Genre(s): rock[17]

  • Community tags: rock[18]

  • MusicBrainz ID: e0bcd6af-e702-4e3c-964d-355801ce2c65[19]

Body

Founding

1976 marks the founding of Rockpile[10]. Rockpile's location of formation is recorded as Finchley[11].

Why It Matters

Rockpile ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (444 views/month).[2] Rockpile has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20]

Related Entities

Columbia Records United Kingdom

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.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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