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Friends Will Be Friends

1986 single by Queen
MusicComposition song Q1003996
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Friends Will Be Friends

Summary

Friends Will Be Friends is a song[1]. It ranks in the top 10% of song entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (375 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Friends Will Be Friends's instance of is recorded as song[3].
  • Friends Will Be Friends's instance of is recorded as single[4].
  • Friends Will Be Friends's composer is recorded as Freddie Mercury[5].
  • Friends Will Be Friends's composer is recorded as John Deacon[6].
  • Friends Will Be Friends's genre is rock music[7].
  • Friends Will Be Friends followed Princes of the Universe[8].
  • Friends Will Be Friends was followed by Pain Is So Close to Pleasure[9].
  • Friends Will Be Friends was performed by Queen[10].
  • Friends Will Be Friends's record label is recorded as EMI[11].
  • Friends Will Be Friends is part of A Kind of Magic[12].
  • Friends Will Be Friends was distributed by vinyl record[13].
  • 1986 marks the founding of Friends Will Be Friends[14].
  • Friends Will Be Friends was published on June 9, 1986[15].
  • Friends Will Be Friends's lyricist is recorded as Freddie Mercury[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]

  • MusicBrainz ID: cbe4f7d2-2bff-4f20-ab4e-7da3b29d94c1[18]

Why It Matters

Friends Will Be Friends ranks in the top 10% of song entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (375 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19]

Related Entities

A Kind of Magic EMI Freddie Mercury John Deacon Queen

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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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