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Whitesnake

British hard rock band
Organization musical_group Q189965
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Summary

Whitesnake is a musical group[1]. Whitesnake ranks in the top 0.77% of musical group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (21,697 views/month, #157 of 20,490).[2]

Key Facts

  • Founder: David Coverdale[3]
  • Genre: hard rock[4], blues rock[5]
  • Record label: Geffen Records[6]
  • Discography: Whitesnake discography[7]
  • Commons category: Whitesnake[8]
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom[9]
  • Has part(s): David Coverdale[10], Michele Luppi[11]
  • Inception: 1978[12]
  • Location of formation: Middlesbrough[13]
  • Official website: http://www.whitesnake.com[14]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Whitesnake[15]
  • Topic has template: Template:Whitesnake[16]
  • Has characteristic: rock band[17]
  • Native label: Whitesnake[18]
  • Start of work period: 1978[19]
  • End of work period: 2025[20]
  • Name: Whitesnake[21]
  • Member category: Category:Whitesnake members[22]

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[23]

  • Country: GB[24]

  • Began / founded: 1978[25]

  • Ended / dissolved: 2022[26]

  • Genre(s): blues rock, classic rock, hard rock, rock[27]

  • Community tags: blues rock, british, classic rock, hard rock, rock[28]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 5dedf5cf-a598-4408-9556-3bf3f149f3ba[29]

Why It Matters

Whitesnake has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] Whitesnake is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Related Entities

Cozy Powell David Coverdale Geffen Records Ian Paice Jon Lord Steve Vai United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [26] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [27] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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