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We're Not Gonna Take It

original song written and composed by Pete Townshend; first recorded by The Who
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q17035485
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We're Not Gonna Take It

Summary

We're Not Gonna Take It is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (279 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • We're Not Gonna Take It's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • We're Not Gonna Take It's composer is recorded as Pete Townshend[4].
  • We're Not Gonna Take It's genre is hard rock[5].
  • We're Not Gonna Take It was performed by The Who[6].
  • We're Not Gonna Take It's language of work or name is recorded as English[7].
  • We're Not Gonna Take It's lyricist is recorded as Pete Townshend[8].
  • We're Not Gonna Take It's title is recorded as We're Not Gonna Take It[9].
  • We're Not Gonna Take It's different from is recorded as We're Not Gonna Take It[10].
  • We're Not Gonna Take It's form of creative work is recorded as song[11].

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[12]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 1fde277a-d4b2-3a54-b3e2-465dbe5d9c8a[13]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on We're Not Gonna Take It was The Who[6].

Publication

We're Not Gonna Take It's language of work or name is recorded as English[7]. Its genre is hard rock[5].

Why It Matters

We're Not Gonna Take It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (279 views/month).[2]

Related Entities

Pete Townshend

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

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

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). We're Not Gonna Take It. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/we-re-not-gonna-take-it-q17035485
MLA “We're Not Gonna Take It.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/we-re-not-gonna-take-it-q17035485.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_we-re-not-gonna-take-it-q17035485_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{We're Not Gonna Take It}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/we-re-not-gonna-take-it-q17035485}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 8w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Imported from → —
    Different from → We're Not Gonna Take It
    Musicbrainz work id → 1fde277a-d4b2-3a54-b3e2-465dbe5d9c8a
    Babelnet id → 14080150n
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P1827]]: T0101694545, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P1827]]"
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