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Blackbird

original song written and composed by Lennon-McCartney
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Summary

Blackbird is a musical work/composition[1]. Blackbird ranks in the top 1% of musical work composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,090 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Composer: John Lennon[3], Paul McCartney[4]
  • Genre: folk music[5]
  • Producer: George Martin[6]
  • Performer: The Beatles[7]
  • Part of: The Beatles[8]
  • Language of work or name: English[9]
  • Publication date: 1968[10]
  • Lyricist: Lennon–McCartney[11]
  • Tonality: G major[12]
  • Inspired by: Bourrée in E minor[13]
  • Title: Blackbird[14]
  • Different from: Blackbird[15]
  • Form of creative work: 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]

  • Genre(s): lovers rock, rock, rocksteady, roots reggae[18]

  • Community tags: lovers rock, multiple iswc, rock, rocksteady, roots reggae[19]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 8a9cc43c-2958-36a1-b9e9-0afd8a346285[20]

Why It Matters

Blackbird has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] Blackbird is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Related Entities

George Martin John Lennon Paul McCartney The Beatles The Beatles

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . 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.
  9. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . 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.
  3. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Inspired by → Bourrée in E minor
    Language of work or name → English
    Performer → The Beatles
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Iswc: T0101630107, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P1827]]"
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