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And the Cradle Will Rock…

original song written and composed by Van Halen
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And the Cradle Will Rock…

Summary

And the Cradle Will Rock… is a musical work/composition[1]. And the Cradle Will Rock… ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (205 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • And the Cradle Will Rock…'s instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • And the Cradle Will Rock…'s composer is recorded as Alex Van Halen[4].
  • And the Cradle Will Rock…'s composer is recorded as Eddie Van Halen[5].
  • And the Cradle Will Rock…'s composer is recorded as David Lee Roth[6].
  • And the Cradle Will Rock…'s composer is recorded as Michael Anthony[7].
  • And the Cradle Will Rock…'s genre is hard rock[8].
  • Among the performers on And the Cradle Will Rock… was Van Halen[9].
  • And the Cradle Will Rock…'s language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • And the Cradle Will Rock…'s lyricist is recorded as Alex Van Halen[11].
  • And the Cradle Will Rock…'s lyricist is recorded as Eddie Van Halen[12].
  • And the Cradle Will Rock…'s lyricist is recorded as David Lee Roth[13].
  • And the Cradle Will Rock…'s lyricist is recorded as Michael Anthony[14].
  • And the Cradle Will Rock…'s title is recorded as And the Cradle Will Rock…[15].
  • And the Cradle Will Rock…'s form of creative work is recorded as song[16].

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

  • Release type: Song[17]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 2b5d9870-ad41-3b4b-9333-403a32a11b4c[18]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on And the Cradle Will Rock… was Van Halen[9].

Publication

And the Cradle Will Rock…'s language of work or name is recorded as English[10]. Its genre is hard rock[8].

Why It Matters

And the Cradle Will Rock… ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (205 views/month).[2]

Related Entities

David Lee Roth Eddie Van Halen

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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  1. 8w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Lyricist → Alex Van Halen, Eddie Van Halen, David Lee Roth +1
    Freebase id → /m/027l4bs
    Imported from → —
    Genre → hard rock
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P1827]]: T0700041877, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P1827]]"
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