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The Attractions

UK musical group; best known as Elvis Costello's backing band
Organization musical_group Q107119755
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The Attractions

Summary

The Attractions is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (332 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Attractions's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • The Attractions's genre is new wave[4].
  • The Attractions's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[5].
  • The Attractions's has characteristic is recorded as backing band[6].
  • The Attractions's start of work period is recorded as 1977[7].
  • The Attractions's name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Attractions'}[8].

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[9]

  • Began / founded: 1977[10]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1996[11]

  • MusicBrainz ID: fa52e9ef-69c8-4b53-a7cf-1318be1d75be[12]

Why It Matters

The Attractions ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (332 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13]

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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

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.

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

  1. [9] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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