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UK Decay

English post-punk band
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UK Decay

Summary

UK Decay is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (151 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • UK Decay's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • UK Decay's genre is gothic rock[4].
  • UK Decay's Commons category is recorded as UK Decay[5].
  • UK Decay's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[6].
  • UK Decay comprises Steve Abbott[7].
  • 1979 marks the founding of UK Decay[8].
  • UK Decay's location of formation is recorded as Luton[9].
  • UK Decay's start of work period is recorded as 1978[10].

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[11]

  • Country: GB[12]

  • Began / founded: 1978[13]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1982-12[14]

  • Genre(s): gothic rock, post-punk, punk, punk rock[15]

  • Community tags: gothic rock, post-punk, punk, punk rock[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: fb45d074-81e4-42e6-a735-4e66b4c72cfb[17]

Body

Founding

1979 marks the founding of UK Decay[8]. Its location of formation is recorded as Luton[9].

Why It Matters

UK Decay ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (151 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18]

Related Entities

Luton 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.

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

  1. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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