Home › Entities › musical_work_composition › Beast of Burden

Beast of Burden

song written and composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, originally recorded by The Rolling Stones in 1977 and released in 1978
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q2892919
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Beast of Burden

Summary

Beast of Burden is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (752 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Beast of Burden's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Beast of Burden's genre is rock music[4].
  • Beast of Burden was performed by The Rolling Stones[5].
  • Beast of Burden was performed by Bette Midler[6].
  • Beast of Burden's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Beast of Burden'}[7].

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[8]

  • MusicBrainz ID: e16e4dde-5639-4ec0-8376-00867be37c1e[9]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Performers include The Rolling Stones[5] and Bette Midler[6].

Publication

Beast of Burden's genre is rock music[4].

Why It Matters

Beast of Burden ranks in the top 2% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (752 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10]

Related Entities

Bette Midler Keith Richards Mick Jagger

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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [8] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Beast of Burden. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/beast-of-burden
MLA “Beast of Burden.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/beast-of-burden.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_beast-of-burden_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Beast of Burden}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/beast-of-burden}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Beast of Burden — https://4ort.xyz/entity/beast-of-burden (retrieved 2026-05-03)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/beast-of-burden · Last refreshed: