Home › Entities › musical_work_composition › Thousands Are Sailing

Thousands Are Sailing

1988 song performed by The Pogues
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q7797079
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Thousands Are Sailing

Summary

Thousands Are Sailing is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (74 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Thousands Are Sailing's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Thousands Are Sailing's genre is Celtic rock[4].
  • Thousands Are Sailing was produced by Steve Lillywhite[5].
  • Among the performers on Thousands Are Sailing was The Pogues[6].
  • Thousands Are Sailing's record label is recorded as Island Records[7].
  • Thousands Are Sailing is part of If I Should Fall from Grace with God[8].
  • Thousands Are Sailing was released on 1988[9].
  • Thousands Are Sailing's form of creative work is recorded as song[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

  • Release type: Song[11]

  • MusicBrainz ID: b5079e7a-2a26-42d4-a324-42f623167339[12]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Thousands Are Sailing was performed by The Pogues[6]. It was produced by Steve Lillywhite[5].

Publication

Thousands Are Sailing was published on 1988[9]. Its genre is Celtic rock[4]. It is part of If I Should Fall from Grace with God[8].

Why It Matters

Thousands Are Sailing ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (74 views/month).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

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.

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

  1. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Thousands Are Sailing. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/thousands-are-sailing
MLA “Thousands Are Sailing.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/thousands-are-sailing.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_thousands-are-sailing_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Thousands Are Sailing}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/thousands-are-sailing}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Thousands Are Sailing — https://4ort.xyz/entity/thousands-are-sailing (retrieved 2026-05-03)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/thousands-are-sailing · Last refreshed: