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The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp

1968 studio album by Giles, Giles and Fripp
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The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp

Summary

The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (256 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp's genre is pop music[4].
  • The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp was produced by Wayne Bickerton[5].
  • The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp was performed by Giles, Giles and Fripp[6].
  • The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp's record label is recorded as Deram[7].
  • The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp's record label is recorded as London Records[8].
  • The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp's place of publication is recorded as United Kingdom[9].
  • The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp was distributed by LP record[11].
  • The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp was released on September 13, 1968[12].
  • The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp'}[13].
  • The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11574', 'amount': '+2263'}[14].
  • The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp's number of parts of this work is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7302866', 'amount': '+13'}[15].
  • The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp'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.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Album[17]

  • First release date: 1968-09-13[18]

  • Genre(s): folk rock, pop, pop rock, psychedelic rock, rock[19]

  • Community tags: folk rock, folker 25–04, ph_temp_checken, pop, pop rock, psychedelic rock, rock[20]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 3003452f-81d6-324b-9989-2c4c9c9f9aa6[21]

Body

Authorship and Creation

The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp was performed by Giles, Giles and Fripp[6]. It was produced by Wayne Bickerton[5].

Publication

The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp was released on September 13, 1968[12]. Its place of publication is recorded as United Kingdom[9]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[10]. Its genre is pop music[4]. It was distributed by LP record[11].

Why It Matters

The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (256 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  4. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . 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.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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