Entertainment!
Sign in to saveEntertainment! is the debut album by English post-punk band Gang of Four. It was released in September 1979 by EMI Records internationally and Warner Bros. Records in North America. Stylistically, it draws heavily on punk rock but also incorporates the influence of funk, reggae and dub. Its lyrics and artwork reflected the band's left-wing political concerns. Entertainment! became a seminal album in the post-punk movement.
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- Listeners
- 7
- Total plays
- 21
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Key facts
- Album.alt
- A red background with "Gang of Four" in all capitals and "Entertainment!" in all lowercase written at the top of the image. Three pictures of a cowboy shaking hands with an indigenous American are shown in the right to bottom-right of the image, with the surrounding text saying "The Indian smiles, he thinks that the cowboy is his friend. The cowboy smiles, he is glad the Indian is fooled. Now he can exploit him."
- Album.released
- 25 September 1979
- Album.recorded
- 1979
- Album.studio
- The Workhouse, Old Kent Road, London
- Album.genre
- Post-punk dance-punk art punk funk-punk
- Album.length
- 39:53
- Album.label
- EMI Warner Bros.
- Album.producer
- Andy Gill Jon King Rob Warr
- Album.next_title
- Yellow EP
- Album.next_year
- 1980
- Album.name
- Entertainment!
Key dates
- Published
- 25 September 1979
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- album
- Genre
- post-punk
- Producer
- Andy Gill
- Performer
- Gang of Four
- Record label
- EMI
- Distribution format
- vinyl record
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- P1552
- debut album
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Entertainment! is the debut album by English post-punk band Gang of Four. It was released in September 1979 by EMI Records internationally and Warner Bros. Records in North America. Stylistically, it draws heavily on punk rock but also incorporates the influence of funk, reggae and dub. Its lyrics and artwork reflected the band's left-wing political concerns. Entertainment! became a seminal album in the post-punk movement.
In 2020, Entertainment! was ranked at number 273 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".