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The Flying Lizards

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Summary

The Flying Lizards is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,224 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Flying Lizards's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • The Flying Lizards's genre is punk rock[4].
  • The Flying Lizards's genre is new wave[5].
  • The Flying Lizards's record label is recorded as Virgin Records[6].
  • The Flying Lizards's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[7].
  • The Flying Lizards comprises David Toop[8].
  • The Flying Lizards comprises Steve Beresford[9].
  • 1978 marks the founding of The Flying Lizards[10].
  • The Flying Lizards's location of formation is recorded as United Kingdom[11].
  • The Flying Lizards's start of work period is recorded as 1976[12].

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[13]

  • Country: GB[14]

  • Began / founded: 1976[15]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1995[16]

  • Genre(s): pop[17]

  • Community tags: british, classic pop and rock, english, pop, uk[18]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 45a2c364-6634-485a-ab0a-7dc828c6ef7b[19]

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Founding

1978 marks the founding of The Flying Lizards[10]. Its location of formation is recorded as United Kingdom[11].

Why It Matters

The Flying Lizards ranks in the top 5% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,224 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20]

Related Entities

United Kingdom Virgin Records

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.

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

  1. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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    Country of origin → United Kingdom
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