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The Psychedelic Furs

British new wave band
Organization musical_group Q276463

Facts

15 properties
Instance of
musical group
Inception
1977[12]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1977 BnF data 1976 edition 2026-10-01 · fr-lo ↗
Genre
post-punk, new wave[2][3]
Official website
www.thepsychedelicfurs.com[14]
Website
www.thepsychedelicfurs.com
Country of origin
United Kingdom[6]
Discography
The Psychedelic Furs discography[5]
Has part(s)
Richard Butler, Tim Butler, Mars Williams, Rich Good, Amanda Kramer[7][8][9][10][11]
Has parts
Richard Butler, Tim Butler, Mars Williams, Rich Good, Amanda Kramer
Location of formation
London[13]
Official name
The Psychedelic Furs[15]
Record label
Columbia Records[4]
Social media followers
111k (22k–111k, n=9)[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]
Start of work period
1977[16]
Work period start
1977
🏷️ Also known as
en Psychedelic Furs en The Psychedelic Furs cs Psychedelic Furs de Psychedelic Furs fr Psychedelic Furs it Psychedelic Furs ja ザ・サイケデリック・ファーズ nl Psychedelic Furs pt Psychedelic Furs ru Psychedelic Furs uk Psychedelic Furs zh 幻覺皮衣合唱團
🔖 Identifiers · 42
ISNI
000000011554747X
VIAF cluster ID
159578282
Library of Congress authority ID
n91079103
GND ID
1217813-5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Psychedelic Furs.jpg ↗
AZLyrics.com artist ID
p/psychedelicfurs
AllMusic artist ID
mn0000418662
Apple Music artist ID
515449
BBC Things ID
885d4ebd-ab64-40e6-8de0-94b6cf2d0a89
BIBSYS ID
9034035
Bandcamp profile ID
thepsychedelicfurs
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
13905920f
Show all 42 identifiers +30
Billboard artist ID
the-psychedelic-furs
Deezer artist ID
2480
Discogs artist ID
125410
Facebook username
psychedelicfurs
Freebase ID
/m/0hm75
Genius artist ID
The-psychedelic-furs
IMDb ID
nm3028604
Instagram username
pfurs
Jaxsta profile ID
7278e039-a4da-4a89-a93e-36ef38d31519
Larousse ID
groupe-musical/wd/155652
Last.fm ID
The+Psychedelic+Furs
Laut.de artist ID
Psychedelic-Furs
LyricsTranslate ID
psychedelic-furs-lyrics.html
Munzinger Pop ID
02000000354
MusicBrainz artist ID
9f930ddf-be2f-4de5-a39f-7ae47305752e
Musik-Sammler.de artist ID
5053
Muziekweb performer ID
M00000053418
Myspace ID
psychedelicfurs
NME artist ID
the-psychedelic-furs
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007419832305171
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX148201
Pitchfork artist ID
19331-psychedelic-furs
Rate Your Music artist ID
the_psychedelic_furs
Songkick artist ID
315340
Spotify artist ID
0O0lrN34wrcuBenkqlEDZe
Tidal artist ID
860
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["MusicAct", "ThePsychedelicFurs::7jjs2"]
X (Twitter) username
pfurs
Yandex Music artist ID
183953
YouTube channel ID
UCknX3jXLlNdtaRUG6CEUmyg

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CountryP17
United Kingdom 2026-09-30 GND (DNB) (CC0 1.0) as of 2026-09-30may be stale
where from?
Source
GND (DNB)
Edition
20260930 · as of 2026-09-30 · newer edition 20261015 landed
Licence
CC0 1.0
Credit
DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
Bronze
41a59441281a5f69… opendata-index.html +10 files
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4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
Dissolved, abolished or demolished dateP576
1992 2026-09-30 GND (DNB) (CC0 1.0) as of 2026-09-30may be stale
where from?
Source
GND (DNB)
Edition
20260930 · as of 2026-09-30 · newer edition 20261015 landed
Licence
CC0 1.0
Credit
DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
Bronze
41a59441281a5f69… opendata-index.html +10 files
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
🔗 Connections
Mb:performer of 16
Talk Talk Talk, All of This and Nothing, All That Money Wants, Beautiful Chaos: Greatest Hits Live, Book of Days, Dumb Waiters, Forever Now, Heaven / Heartbeat (Remix) +8 more
← Mb:member of band 7
Richard Butler, Mars Williams, Tim Butler, John Ashton, Amanda Kramer, Ed Buller, Joe McGinty
Has part(s) 3
Richard Butler, Mars Williams, Tim Butler
Genre 2
post-punk, new wave
← Mb:instrumental supporting musician 2
Frank Ferrer, Phill Calvert
← Member of 2
Richard Butler, Tim Butler
Country of origin 1
United Kingdom
Instance of 1
musical group
Location of formation 1
London
Record label 1
Columbia Records
← EU Knowledge Graph item ID 1
Campana
← Mb:supporting musician 1
Frank Ferrer
← Performer 1
Talk Talk Talk
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Summary

The Psychedelic Furs 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[25]

  • Country: GB[26]

  • Began / founded: 1977-02[27]

  • Genre(s): alternative rock, new wave, pop rock, post-punk, punk rock, rock, shoegaze[28]

  • Community tags: alternative rock, new wave, pop rock, post-punk, punk rock, rock, rock and indie, shoegaze, synthpop[29]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 9f930ddf-be2f-4de5-a39f-7ae47305752e[30]

Related Entities

Campana Columbia Records London United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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

  1. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [30] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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