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The Spotlight Kid

album by Captain Beefheart
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The Spotlight Kid

Summary

The Spotlight Kid is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (242 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Spotlight Kid is the creator of Captain Beefheart[3].
  • The Spotlight Kid's instance of is recorded as album[4].
  • The Spotlight Kid's genre is blues rock[5].
  • The Spotlight Kid was produced by Captain Beefheart[6].
  • The Spotlight Kid was performed by Captain Beefheart[7].
  • The Spotlight Kid's collection is recorded as Museum of Modern Art[8].
  • The Spotlight Kid's record label is recorded as Reprise Records[9].
  • The Spotlight Kid is part of Captain Beefheart's albums in chronological order[10].
  • The Spotlight Kid was released on January 1972[11].
  • The Spotlight Kid's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11574', 'amount': '+2154'}[12].
  • The Spotlight Kid's form of creative work is recorded as studio album[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

  • Release type: Album[14]

  • First release date: 1972-01[15]

  • Genre(s): art rock, blues rock, rock[16]

  • Community tags: art rock, blues rock, rock[17]

  • MusicBrainz ID: bb50d89f-127f-3027-b65c-c8f821c7fb85[18]

Body

Authorship and Creation

The Spotlight Kid was performed by Captain Beefheart[7]. It was produced by Captain Beefheart[6]. It is the creator of Captain Beefheart[3].

Publication

The Spotlight Kid was released on January 1972[11]. Its genre is blues rock[5]. It is part of Captain Beefheart's albums in chronological order[10].

Why It Matters

The Spotlight Kid ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (242 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19]

Related Entities

Captain Beefheart Museum of Modern Art Reprise Records

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . moma.org. moma.org. Provenance: 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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