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The Passions

British musical group; post-punk/new wave band
Organization musical_group Q3522184
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The Passions

Summary

The Passions is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (249 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Passions's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • The Passions's genre is punk rock[4].
  • The Passions's record label is recorded as Fiction Records[5].
  • The Passions's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[6].
  • The Passions comprises Barbara Gogan[7].
  • 1978 marks the founding of The Passions[8].
  • The Passions's location of formation is recorded as Shepherd's Bush[9].
  • The Passions's official website is recorded as http://www.thepassions.co.uk/[10].
  • The Passions's different from is recorded as The Passions[11].
  • The Passions's start of work period is recorded as 1978[12].
  • The Passions's end of work period is recorded as 1983[13].

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[14]

  • Country: GB[15]

  • Began / founded: 1978[16]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1983[17]

  • Genre(s): new wave, post-punk[18]

  • Community tags: classic pop and rock, england, new wave, post-punk[19]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 8d1a348b-056b-4fd9-83d0-e1ed159b6287[20]

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Founding

1978 marks the founding of The Passions[8]. Its location of formation is recorded as Shepherd's Bush[9].

Why It Matters

The Passions ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (249 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21]

Related Entities

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] ↑ . Daily Record. newspapers.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . musik-sammler.de. musik-sammler.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · ZI Jony · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Record label → —
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    Start of work period → +1978-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Country of origin → United Kingdom
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