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Specimen

British band
Organization musical_group Q7575024
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Specimen

Summary

Specimen is a musical group[1]. Specimen ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (219 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Specimen's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Specimen's genre is gothic rock[4].
  • Specimen's record label is recorded as Sire[5].
  • Specimen's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[6].
  • 1980 marks the founding of Specimen[7].
  • Specimen's location of formation is recorded as Bristol[8].
  • Specimen's start of work period is recorded as 1981[9].

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[10]

  • Country: GB[11]

  • Began / founded: 1980[12]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1985[13]

  • Genre(s): deathrock, glam rock, gothic, gothic rock, post-punk[14]

  • Community tags: batcave, bristol, british, deathrock, england, glam rock, goth, gothic, gothic rock, post-punk, uk[15]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 3ee1304c-1790-4b43-8e1f-4f32dbf150bd[16]

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Founding

1980 marks the founding of Specimen[7]. Specimen's location of formation is recorded as Bristol[8].

Why It Matters

Specimen ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (219 views/month).[2] Specimen has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17]

Related Entities

Bristol Sire 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.

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

  1. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

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

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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. 25d ago · Sanremofilo · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Work period start → —
    Inception → +1980-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Allmusic artist id → mn0000000757
    Start of work period → +1981-00-00T00:00:00Z
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1728]]: mn0000000757"
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