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Sun and Steel

1975 studio album by Iron Butterfly
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Sun and Steel

Summary

Sun and Steel is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (110 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Sun and Steel's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • Sun and Steel's genre is hard rock[4].
  • Sun and Steel was produced by John Ryan[5].
  • Sun and Steel was performed by Iron Butterfly[6].
  • Sun and Steel's record label is recorded as MCA Records[7].
  • Sun and Steel's place of publication is recorded as United States[8].
  • Sun and Steel is part of Iron Butterfly's albums in chronological order[9].
  • Sun and Steel's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • Sun and Steel was distributed by LP record[11].
  • Sun and Steel was published on October 1975[12].
  • Sun and Steel's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Sun and Steel'}[13].
  • Sun and Steel's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11574', 'amount': '+2105'}[14].
  • Sun and Steel's number of parts of this work is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7302866', 'amount': '+9'}[15].
  • Sun and Steel's form of creative work is recorded as studio album[16].

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.

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  • Release type: Album[17]

  • First release date: 1975[18]

  • Genre(s): hard rock, rock[19]

  • Community tags: hard rock, rock[20]

  • MusicBrainz ID: b803e660-dcae-346e-8419-d8501e950469[21]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on Sun and Steel was Iron Butterfly[6]. It was produced by John Ryan[5].

Publication

Sun and Steel was published on October 1975[12]. Its place of publication is recorded as United States[8]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[10]. Its genre is hard rock[4]. It is part of Iron Butterfly's albums in chronological order[9]. It was distributed by LP record[11].

Why It Matters

Sun and Steel ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (110 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22]

Related Entities

United States

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.

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

  1. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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