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The Barracudas

English rock band
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The Barracudas

Summary

The Barracudas is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (141 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Barracudas's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • The Barracudas's genre is new wave[4].
  • The Barracudas's record label is recorded as EMI[5].
  • The Barracudas's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[6].
  • 1979 marks the founding of The Barracudas[7].
  • The Barracudas's location of formation is recorded as London[8].
  • The Barracudas's start of work period is recorded as 1979[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: CA[11]

  • Began / founded: 1979[12]

  • Genre(s): garage rock, power pop, punk, rock, surf punk[13]

  • Community tags: alternative, canada, classic pop and rock, england, garage rock, power pop, punk, rock, surf punk, uk[14]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 89d06e04-263a-4e12-9caf-7e8816e4e61a[15]

Body

Founding

1979 marks the founding of The Barracudas[7]. Its location of formation is recorded as London[8].

Why It Matters

The Barracudas ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (141 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16]

Related Entities

EMI London Mark Sheppard 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

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

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