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What a Waste

1978 song performed by Ian Dury
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What a Waste

Summary

What a Waste is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (86 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • What a Waste's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • What a Waste's genre is rock music[4].
  • What a Waste followed Sweet Gene Vincent[5].
  • What a Waste was followed by Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick[6].
  • What a Waste was performed by Ian Dury[7].
  • What a Waste's record label is recorded as Stiff Records[8].
  • What a Waste was published on April 1978[9].
  • What a Waste'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: 8bcbe677-f7b6-45c7-a23e-ca9c99ea05da[12]

Body

Authorship and Creation

What a Waste was performed by Ian Dury[7].

Publication

What a Waste was published on April 1978[9]. Its genre is rock music[4].

Adaptations and Inspiration

What a Waste followed Sweet Gene Vincent[5]. It was followed by Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick[6].

Why It Matters

What a Waste ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (86 views/month).[2]

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.

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.

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