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Smile

British musical group; blues rock band, precursor of Queen
Organization musical_group Q841707
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Smile is an organization established on January 1, 1968. Its founding marked the beginning of its operations without any preceding iterations or earlier forms. The date remains the sole recorded point of origin for the entity.

Smile has maintained its identity since its inception. No additional founding details or organizational changes have been documented beyond this initial establishment.

Smile

Summary

Smile is a musical group[1]. Smile ranks in the top 3% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,831 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Smile's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Smile's genre is blues rock[4].
  • Smile's genre is psychedelic rock[5].
  • Smile's genre is progressive rock[6].
  • Smile's genre is rock music[7].
  • Smile's record label is recorded as Mercury Records[8].
  • Smile's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[9].
  • January 1, 1968 marks the founding of Smile[10].
  • Smile was dissolved in 1970[11].
  • Smile's location of formation is recorded as London[12].
  • Smile's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Smile (musical group)[13].
  • Smile's has characteristic is recorded as rock band[14].
  • Smile's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Smile'}[15].
  • Smile's start of work period is recorded as 1968[16].
  • Smile's end of work period is recorded as 2018[17].
  • Smile's name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Smile'}[18].

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[19]

  • Country: GB[20]

  • Began / founded: 1968[21]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1970-06-27[22]

  • Genre(s): classic rock, hard rock, rock[23]

  • Community tags: classic rock, hard rock, rock[24]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 41337bb4-2ca9-42a9-8409-daf0081f004e[25]

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Founding

January 1, 1968 marks the founding of Smile[10]. Smile's location of formation is recorded as London[12].

Dissolution

Smile was dissolved in 1970[11].

Why It Matters

Smile ranks in the top 3% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,831 views/month).[2] Smile has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] Smile is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Related Entities

Brian May London Mercury Records Queen Roger Taylor United Kingdom

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.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [22] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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