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Spartacus (The Farm album)

1991 studio album by the Farm

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Spartacus is the debut studio album by British rock band the Farm, released on 4 March 1991 through Produce Records. Following a variety of member changes and single releases, the band solidified their line-up in 1987; after a record deal fell through, they opted to start their own label, Produce Records. They recorded the bulk of their debut album in London in 1990 with former Madness frontman Graham "Suggs" McPherson as producer; one track from 1987 was produced by the Housemartins members Paul Heaton and Stan Cullimore. Spartacus is a baggy and dance-rock album that takes influence from the work of Buzzcocks, the Clash and the Jam.

Editorial summary

“Spartacus (The Farm album)” enters the record as 1991 studio album by the Farm. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Spartacus, Farm and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1987, 1990—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Spartacus, Farm and album.
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Why this record matters

“Spartacus (The Farm album)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Spartacus, Farm and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1991, 1987 and 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “Spartacus (The Farm album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.