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Punch the Clock

album by Elvis Costello
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Punch the Clock

Summary

Punch the Clock is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (329 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Punch the Clock's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • Punch the Clock's genre is rock music[4].
  • Punch the Clock was produced by Clive Langer[5].
  • Punch the Clock was performed by Elvis Costello & the Attractions[6].
  • Punch the Clock's record label is recorded as F-Beat Records[7].
  • Punch the Clock is part of Elvis Costello's albums in chronological order[8].
  • Punch the Clock is part of Elvis Costello & The Attractions' albums in chronological order[9].
  • Punch the Clock's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • Punch the Clock was released on August 5, 1983[11].
  • Punch the Clock's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Punch the Clock'}[12].

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[13]

  • First release date: 1983-08-05[14]

  • Genre(s): new wave, pop, pop rock, pop soul, rock[15]

  • Community tags: new wave, pop, pop rock, pop soul, rock[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 8ff60eb1-a81d-3582-9fe5-9891ca25ff94[17]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on Punch the Clock was Elvis Costello & the Attractions[6]. It was produced by Clive Langer[5].

Publication

Punch the Clock was released on August 5, 1983[11]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[10]. Its genre is rock music[4]. Part of include Elvis Costello's albums in chronological order[8] and Elvis Costello & The Attractions' albums in chronological order[9].

Why It Matters

Punch the Clock ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (329 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18]

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] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [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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