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Bad News

Fictional British parody rock band
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Bad News

Summary

Bad News is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (383 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Bad News's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Bad News's genre is heavy metal music[4].
  • Bad News's genre is rapping[5].
  • Bad News's record label is recorded as EMI[6].
  • Bad News's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[7].
  • Bad News comprises Adrian Edmondson[8].
  • 1983 marks the founding of Bad News[9].
  • Bad News's location of formation is recorded as United Kingdom[10].
  • Bad News's official website is recorded as http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A447950[11].
  • Bad News's start of work period is recorded as 1983[12].

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[13]

  • Country: GB[14]

  • Began / founded: 1983[15]

  • Community tags: comic strip[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 455aa0ec-b889-40d8-b97c-274c15a08653[17]

Body

Founding

1983 marks the founding of Bad News[9]. Its location of formation is recorded as United Kingdom[10].

Why It Matters

Bad News ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (383 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18]

Related Entities

EMI United Kingdom

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Montreux Jazz Festival Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [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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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Bad News. Retrieved April 11, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/bad-news
MLA “Bad News.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 11 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/bad-news.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_bad-news_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Bad News}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/bad-news}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-11}}
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