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The Comsat Angels

English post-punk band from Sheffield and Doncaster, England, initially active from 1978 to 1995
Organization musical_group Q7727251
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The Comsat Angels

Summary

The Comsat Angels is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (441 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Comsat Angels's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • The Comsat Angels's genre is post-punk[4].
  • The Comsat Angels's record label is recorded as Polydor[5].
  • The Comsat Angels's Commons category is recorded as Comsat Angels[6].
  • The Comsat Angels's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[7].
  • The Comsat Angels comprises Stephen Fellows[8].
  • 1978 marks the founding of The Comsat Angels[9].
  • The Comsat Angels's location of formation is recorded as Sheffield[10].
  • The Comsat Angels's start of work period is recorded as 1978[11].

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[12]

  • Country: GB[13]

  • Began / founded: 1979[14]

  • Ended / dissolved: 2010-12-11[15]

  • Genre(s): new wave, post-punk[16]

  • Community tags: big music, england, new wave, post-punk, rock and indie, sheffield, uk[17]

  • MusicBrainz ID: d4a8e74d-0315-42b5-9fcd-3ee1ded14f26[18]

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Founding

1978 marks the founding of The Comsat Angels[9]. Its location of formation is recorded as Sheffield[10].

Why It Matters

The Comsat Angels ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (441 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19]

Related Entities

Polydor Sheffield 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.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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