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Shine On You Crazy Diamond

1975 song by Pink Floyd
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Shine On You Crazy Diamond has the genre progressive rock.

Key Facts

  • Composer: Richard Wright[3], Roger Waters[4], David Gilmour[5]
  • Genre: progressive rock[6]
  • Producer: Pink Floyd[7]
  • Performer: Pink Floyd[8]
  • Record label: Harvest[9], EMI Records[10]
  • Part of: Wish You Were Here[11]
  • Language of work or name: English[12]
  • Recorded at studio or venue: Abbey Road Studios[13]
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom[14]
  • Publication date: 1975[15]
  • Lyricist: Roger Waters[16], Richard Wright[17], David Gilmour[18]
  • Tonality: G minor[19]
  • Title: Shine On You Crazy Diamond[20]
  • Form of creative work: song[21]

Product Details

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MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[22]

  • Genre(s): progressive rock, rock[23]

  • Community tags: progressive rock, rock, wrong guess case[24]

  • MusicBrainz ID: c8f8379b-e755-3446-9fac-44c11b8c520f[25]

Why It Matters

Shine On You Crazy Diamond has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Related Entities

David Gilmour Harvest Richard Wright Roger Waters Syd Barrett United Kingdom Wish You Were Here

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.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [22] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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