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Shane MacGowan and The Popes

Irish musical group
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Shane MacGowan and The Popes

Summary

Shane MacGowan and The Popes is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (125 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Shane MacGowan and The Popes's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Shane MacGowan and The Popes's genre is punk rock[4].
  • Shane MacGowan and The Popes's genre is Celtic punk[5].
  • Shane MacGowan and The Popes's record label is recorded as Snapper Music[6].
  • Shane MacGowan and The Popes's country of origin is recorded as Ireland[7].
  • Shane MacGowan and The Popes's location of formation is recorded as Dublin[8].
  • Shane MacGowan and The Popes's official website is recorded as http://www.thepopesofficialsite.com/[9].
  • Shane MacGowan and The Popes's start of work period is recorded as 1998[10].
  • Shane MacGowan and The Popes's name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Shane MacGowan and The Popes'}[11].

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[12]

  • Country: IE[13]

  • Began / founded: 1998[14]

  • MusicBrainz ID: c8a438bf-5a6e-47b2-854a-8d37441f475b[15]

Body

Founding

Shane MacGowan and The Popes's location of formation is recorded as Dublin[8].

Why It Matters

Shane MacGowan and The Popes ranks in the top 7% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (125 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

Ireland Shane MacGowan

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] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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