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Baba O'Riley

original song written and composed by Pete Townshend; first performed by The Who
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Summary

Baba O'Riley is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 0.77% of musical work composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,079 views/month, #149 of 19,375).[2]

Key Facts

  • Composer: Pete Townshend[3]
  • Genre: art rock[4], hard rock[5]
  • Named after: Meher Baba[6], Terry Riley[7]
  • Performer: The Who[8], Guided by Voices[9], Dropkick Murphys[10]
  • Record label: Decca[11], Polydor[12]
  • Part of: Who's Next[13]
  • Language of work or name: English[14]
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom[15]
  • Publication date: January 1, 1971[16]
  • Lyricist: Pete Townshend[17]
  • Instrumentation: Lowrey organ[18]
  • Described at URL: https://www.mixonline.com/recording/classic-tracks/the-whos-baba-oriley-classic-tracks[19]
  • Title: Baba O'Riley[20]
  • Form of creative work: song[21]
  • Media franchise: CSI[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

  • Release type: Song[23]

  • Genre(s): rock[24]

  • Community tags: rock[25]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 0acde909-3956-3a20-890a-5afccff15fd7[26]

Why It Matters

Baba O'Riley has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Related Entities

CSI: NY Decca Meher Baba Pete Townshend Polydor Terry Riley The Who United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . petetownshend.net. petetownshend.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . petetownshend.net. petetownshend.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . mixonline.com. Retrieved . mixonline.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . mixonline.com. Retrieved . mixonline.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Retrieved . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 24w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Language of work or name → English
    Performer → The Who, Guided by Voices, Dropkick Murphys
    Form of creative work → song
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