Home › Entities › musical_work_composition › Rock the Casbah

Rock the Casbah

song by English punk rock band The Clash
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q305520
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Rock the Casbah

Summary

Rock the Casbah is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 0.93% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,719 views/month, #181 of 19,375).[2]

Key Facts

  • Rock the Casbah's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Rock the Casbah's composer is recorded as Topper Headon[4].
  • Rock the Casbah's composer is recorded as Mick Jones[5].
  • Rock the Casbah's composer is recorded as Joe Strummer[6].
  • Rock the Casbah's genre is new wave[7].
  • Rock the Casbah followed Should I Stay or Should I Go[8].
  • Rock the Casbah was followed by Straight to Hell[9].
  • Rock the Casbah was produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry[10].
  • Rock the Casbah was performed by The Clash[11].
  • Rock the Casbah is part of Combat Rock[12].
  • Rock the Casbah's language of work or name is recorded as English[13].
  • Rock the Casbah was distributed by vinyl record[14].
  • Rock the Casbah was published on 1982[15].
  • Rock the Casbah's lyricist is recorded as Joe Strummer[16].
  • Rock the Casbah's lyricist is recorded as Mick Jones[17].
  • Rock the Casbah's lyricist is recorded as Topper Headon[18].
  • Rock the Casbah's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Rock the Casbah'}[19].
  • Rock the Casbah's different from is recorded as Rock the Casbah[20].
  • Rock the Casbah's form of creative work is recorded as song[21].

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[22]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 7d7164ba-089a-3610-8a70-a826cdc95f8a[23]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Rock the Casbah was performed by The Clash[11]. It was produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry[10].

Publication

Rock the Casbah was released on 1982[15]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[13]. Its genre is new wave[7]. It is part of Combat Rock[12]. It was distributed by vinyl record[14].

Adaptations and Inspiration

Rock the Casbah followed Should I Stay or Should I Go[8]. It was followed by Straight to Hell[9].

Why It Matters

Rock the Casbah ranks in the top 0.93% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,719 views/month, #181 of 19,375).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24]

Related Entities

Joe Strummer Lee "Scratch" Perry

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . 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] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [22] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Rock the Casbah. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/rock-the-casbah
MLA “Rock the Casbah.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/rock-the-casbah.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_rock-the-casbah_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Rock the Casbah}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/rock-the-casbah}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Rock the Casbah — https://4ort.xyz/entity/rock-the-casbah (retrieved 2026-05-03)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/rock-the-casbah · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → English
    Performer → The Clash
    Part of → Combat Rock
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P1827]]: T0114016260, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P1827]]"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.