The Flying Pickets

British a cappella vocal group
Organization Musical Group Q1578573

Facts

15 properties

Identity

Instance of
musical group
Official website
www.flyingpickets.com[8]

Status and dates

Inception
1982[7]

Relations

Has part(s)
Brian Hibbard[6]
More facts +11
Country of origin
United Kingdom[5]
Has characteristic
a cappella group[9]
Has parts
Brian Hibbard
Name
The Flying Pickets[11]
Record label
Virgin Records[3]
Start of work period
1982[10]
Work period start
1982
🏷️ Also known as
en The Flying Pickets ja フライング・ピケッツ
🔖 Identifiers · 23
VIAF cluster ID
159571522
Library of Congress Authorities ID
no98017609
AllMusic artist ID
mn0000802484
Apple Music artist ID
14551328
Deezer artist ID
2758
Discogs artist ID
140582
Facebook username
TheFlyingPickets
Freebase ID
/m/04srxh
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IMDb ID
nm2120573
LyricsTranslate ID
flying-pickets-lyrics.html
Musik-Sammler.de artist ID
4510
Muziekweb performer ID
M00000010036
SecondHandSongs artist ID
817
Songkick artist ID
466330
Spotify artist ID
41A6Xdil8qhaD2DcS4X1wA
Topic's main category
Category:The Flying Pickets
📚 Sources · 2
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Summary

The Flying Pickets is a musical group[1].

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: 1982[15]

  • Genre(s): pop[16]

  • Community tags: a cappella, british, pop, uk[17]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 9652d56e-ee75-4a19-a1db-6637a4f1bfbe[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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