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This Strange Engine

British music album
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This Strange Engine

Summary

This Strange Engine is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (132 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • This Strange Engine's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • This Strange Engine's genre is progressive rock[4].
  • This Strange Engine was performed by Marillion[5].
  • This Strange Engine's record label is recorded as Castle Communications[6].
  • This Strange Engine's record label is recorded as Pony Canyon[7].
  • This Strange Engine is part of Marillion's albums in chronological order[8].
  • This Strange Engine was released on 1997[9].

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[10]

  • First release date: 1997-04-09[11]

  • Genre(s): alternative rock, art rock, hard rock, pop rock, progressive rock, rock, soft rock, symphonic rock[12]

  • Community tags: 5+ wochen, alternative rock, art rock, english, hard rock, offizielle charts, pop rock, progressive rock, rock, soft rock, symphonic rock[13]

  • MusicBrainz ID: db930429-b77c-3a89-8227-279facb688a1[14]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on This Strange Engine was Marillion[5].

Publication

This Strange Engine was published on 1997[9]. Its genre is progressive rock[4]. It is part of Marillion's albums in chronological order[8].

Why It Matters

This Strange Engine ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (132 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15]

Related Entities

Pony Canyon

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.

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

  1. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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