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Beggars Opera

Scottish progressive rock band
Organization musical_group Q814312
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Beggars Opera

Summary

Beggars Opera is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (313 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Beggars Opera's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Beggars Opera's genre is progressive rock[4].
  • Beggars Opera's record label is recorded as Vertigo Records[5].
  • Beggars Opera's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[6].
  • January 1, 1969 marks the founding of Beggars Opera[7].
  • Beggars Opera's location of formation is recorded as Glasgow[8].
  • Beggars Opera's official website is recorded as http://www.beggarsopera.co.uk[9].
  • Beggars Opera's start of work period is recorded as 1969[10].

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[11]

  • Country: GB[12]

  • Began / founded: 1970[13]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1974[14]

  • Genre(s): art rock, boogie rock, hard rock, progressive rock, rock, symphonic prog[15]

  • Community tags: art rock, boogie rock, hard rock, progressive rock, rock, symphonic prog[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: e61993e5-4c8a-4fed-b9f8-769d2726cb9b[17]

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Founding

January 1, 1969 marks the founding of Beggars Opera[7]. Its location of formation is recorded as Glasgow[8].

Why It Matters

Beggars Opera ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (313 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

United Kingdom Vertigo Records

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [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.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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