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The Soft Boys

British proto-punk and power-pop band
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The Soft Boys

Summary

The Soft Boys is a rock band[1]. It draws 582 Wikipedia views per month (rock_band category, ranking #311 of 861).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Soft Boys's instance of is recorded as rock band[3].
  • The Soft Boys's genre is indie rock[4].
  • The Soft Boys's record label is recorded as Radar Records[5].
  • The Soft Boys's record label is recorded as Attic[6].
  • The Soft Boys's record label is recorded as Matador Records[7].
  • The Soft Boys's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[8].
  • The Soft Boys comprises Robyn Hitchcock[9].
  • 1976 marks the founding of The Soft Boys[10].
  • The Soft Boys's location of formation is recorded as Cambridge[11].
  • The Soft Boys's official website is recorded as https://www.robynhitchcock.com/[12].
  • The Soft Boys's start of work period is recorded as 1976[13].

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[14]

  • Country: GB[15]

  • Began / founded: 1976[16]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1981[17]

  • Genre(s): art punk, jangle pop, neo-psychedelia, post-punk, power pop, punk[18]

  • Community tags: art punk, british, cambridge, classic pop and rock, england, english, jangle pop, neo-psychedelia, post-punk, power pop, punk, uk[19]

  • MusicBrainz ID: ae362950-090f-4686-82da-9d22a5f88f2e[20]

Why It Matters

The Soft Boys draws 582 Wikipedia views per month (rock_band category, ranking #311 of 861).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Related Entities

Cambridge 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.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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