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Gillan

English rock band
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Gillan

Summary

Gillan is a rock band[1]. Gillan draws 515 Wikipedia views per month (rock_band category, ranking #300 of 861).[2]

Key Facts

  • Gillan's instance of is recorded as rock band[3].
  • Gillan's genre is hard rock[4].
  • Gillan's record label is recorded as Virgin Records[5].
  • Gillan's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[6].
  • Gillan comprises Ian Gillan[7].
  • 1978 marks the founding of Gillan[8].
  • Gillan's location of formation is recorded as London[9].
  • Gillan's start of work period is recorded as 1978[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: 1978-07[13]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1982-12[14]

  • Genre(s): classic rock, hard rock, rock[15]

  • Community tags: classic rock, hard rock, rock[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: f7ee55df-61ae-4d22-989b-60ada0ea44a4[17]

Why It Matters

Gillan draws 515 Wikipedia views per month (rock_band category, ranking #300 of 861).[2] Gillan has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18]

Related Entities

Ian Gillan Janick Gers London United Kingdom Virgin 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.

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