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Bernie Worrell

1944 - 2016

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George Bernard Worrell, Jr. (April 19, 1944 – June 24, 2016) was an American keyboardist and record producer best known as a founding member of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective. In later years, he also worked with acts such as Talking Heads, Bill Laswell, and Jack Bruce. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernie Worrell has received more than 844,596 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Bernie Worrell is the 1,310th most popular composer (down from 1,171st in 2019), the 11,638th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,640th in 2019) and the 128th most popular American Composer.

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  • 840k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Bernie Worrell ranks 1,310 out of 1,216. Before him are Thomas Bergersen, Abel Korzeniowski, Christophe Beck, Edvin Marton, Javier Navarrete, and Peter Sculthorpe. After him are Jeremy Soule, Kazumi Totaka, Jimmy McHugh, Oliver Knussen, Gus Kahn, and Randall Thompson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Bernie Worrell ranks 606. Before him are Amol Palekar, Tony Orlando, Mike Enzi, Parmanand Jha, Ann Sidney, and Mel Daniels. After him are Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Mario Tullio Montano, Chris Dodd, James van Hoften, Celeste Yarnall, and Richard A. Muller. Among people deceased in 2016, Bernie Worrell ranks 492. Before him are Arsen Pavlov, Sverre Kjelsberg, Miriam Defensor Santiago, Roger Cicero, Terry Wogan, and Pat Conroy. After him are Ron Glass, Guy Clark, Viktor Gavrikov, Bobby Wanzer, Christopher Zeeman, and Riki Sorsa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bernie Worrell ranks 11,638 out of 18,182. Before him are Lawrence Taylor (1959), Mo'Nique (1967), Brooklyn Decker (1987), Marguerite Churchill (1910), Justina Machado (1972), and Reggie Fils-Aimé (1961). After him are Chord Overstreet (1989), Alicia Coppola (1968), Walter Bahr (1927), Kari Wuhrer (1967), Amory Lovins (1947), and Robert M. T. Hunter (1809).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Bernie Worrell ranks 128. Before him are Robert Russell Bennett (1894), Charles Wuorinen (1938), Robert Ashley (1930), Bruce Broughton (1945), Norman Dello Joio (1913), and Frank Loesser (1910). After him are Jeremy Soule (1975), Jimmy McHugh (1894), Randall Thompson (1899), Steve Roach (1955), Marc Shaiman (1959), and Walter Murphy (1952).

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