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The Goodies discography

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ7737311 ↗
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This is a listing of official albums and singles released by the British comedy trio The Goodies, composed of Tim Brooke-Taylor (1940-2020), Graeme Garden (b.1943) and Bill Oddie (1941-2026).

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1940, 2020, 1943, 1941—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Goodies, discography and Open-knowledge providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “The Goodies discography” 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.