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The Grease Band

British rock band that originally formed as Joe Cocker's backing group
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The Grease Band

Summary

The Grease Band is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (254 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Grease Band's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • The Grease Band's instance of is recorded as backing band[4].
  • The Grease Band's genre is rock music[5].
  • The Grease Band's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[6].
  • The Grease Band's location of formation is recorded as Sheffield[7].
  • The Grease Band's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Grease Band'}[8].
  • The Grease Band's used by is recorded as Joe Cocker[9].
  • The Grease Band's start of work period is recorded as 1968[10].

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[11]

  • Country: GB[12]

  • Began / founded: 1968[13]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1975[14]

  • Genre(s): boogie rock, psychedelic rock, rock[15]

  • Community tags: boogie rock, psychedelic rock, rock[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 1b5001de-400a-406f-be12-160cf503854f[17]

Body

Founding

The Grease Band's location of formation is recorded as Sheffield[7].

Identity

The Grease Band's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'it'}[8].

Why It Matters

The Grease Band ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (254 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18]

Related Entities

Joe Cocker 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] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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