Desperate Character

1981 debut studio album by Kirsty MacColl
MusicAlbum album Q5264928
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Desperate Character

Summary

Desperate Character is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (66 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Desperate Character's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • Desperate Character's genre is new wave[4].
  • Desperate Character's genre is pub rock[5].
  • Desperate Character's genre is pop rock[6].
  • Among the performers on Desperate Character was Kirsty MacColl[7].
  • Desperate Character's record label is recorded as Polydor[8].
  • Desperate Character's place of publication is recorded as United Kingdom[9].
  • Desperate Character is part of Kirsty MacColl's albums in chronological order[10].
  • Desperate Character's language of work or name is recorded as English[11].
  • Desperate Character was distributed by LP record[12].
  • Desperate Character was distributed by compact cassette[13].
  • Desperate Character's review score is recorded as 3[14].
  • Desperate Character was released on July 1981[15].
  • Desperate Character's tracklist is recorded as There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis[16].
  • Desperate Character's tracklist is recorded as There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis (Country version)[17].
  • Desperate Character's title is recorded as Desperate Character[18].
  • Desperate Character's has characteristic is recorded as debut album[19].
  • Desperate Character's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11574', 'amount': '+2095'}[20].
  • Desperate Character's number of parts of this work is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7302866', 'amount': '+12'}[21].
  • Desperate Character's form of creative work is recorded as studio album[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: Album[23]

  • First release date: 1981-06[24]

  • Genre(s): country, pop, pop rock, rock[25]

  • Community tags: country, pop, pop rock, rock[26]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 2b7f912b-1547-3de1-8f19-9b475691d2db[27]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Desperate Character was performed by Kirsty MacColl[7].

Publication

Desperate Character was released on July 1981[15]. Its place of publication is recorded as United Kingdom[9]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[11]. Genres include new wave[4], pub rock[5], and pop rock[6]. It is part of Kirsty MacColl's albums in chronological order[10]. Recorded distribution format include LP record[12] and compact cassette[13].

Reception

Desperate Character's review score is recorded as 3[14].

Why It Matters

Desperate Character ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (66 views/month).[2]

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.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . AllMusic. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . 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.
  5. [27] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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