MUSICIAN

Captain Beefheart

1941 - 2010

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Don Van Vliet (; born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. Conducting a rotating ensemble known as the Magic Band, he recorded 13 studio albums between 1967 and 1982. His music blended elements of blues, free jazz, rock, and avant-garde composition with idiosyncratic rhythms, absurdist wordplay, and Vliet’s gravelly singing voice with a wide vocal range. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Captain Beefheart has received more than 3,516,147 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Captain Beefheart is the 595th most popular musician (down from 464th in 2019), the 3,050th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,516th in 2019) and the 181st most popular American Musician.

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  • 3.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Captain Beefheart ranks 595 out of 3,175. Before him are Axel Rudi Pell, Rubén González, Uli Jon Roth, Tim Rice, Curtis Mayfield, and David Foster. After him are Tommy Bolin, Lazar Berman, Stephen Kovacevich, Oliver Riedel, Nick Simper, and Ahmad Jamal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Captain Beefheart ranks 188. Before him are Charles Whitman, Fred West, Umberto Bossi, Sarah Miles, George P. Cosmatos, and Lothar Emmerich. After him are Chubby Checker, Bohdan Stupka, Fritz Wepper, Salvador Sadurní, Hagen Kleinert, and Jesse Jackson. Among people deceased in 2010, Captain Beefheart ranks 114. Before him are Georges Wilson, Vladimir Ilyushin, Theo Albrecht, Rasim Delić, Tomáš Špidlík, and Miguel Delibes. After him are Caterina Boratto, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Dick Francis, Jean Ferrat, Claude Lefort, and Emilio Eduardo Massera.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Captain Beefheart ranks 3,050 out of 20,380. Before him are Paul Romer (1955), George Ord (1781), Robert Conrad (1935), Mary Mapes Dodge (1831), Robert Sean Leonard (1969), and Arielle Dombasle (1953). After him are Jack Kevorkian (1928), Judy Chicago (1939), Lisa Bonet (1967), Dana Andrews (1909), William Bates (1860), and Cedric Gibbons (1893).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Captain Beefheart ranks 181. Before him are Wendy Carlos (1939), Ace Frehley (1951), GG Allin (1956), Jeff Porcaro (1954), Tico Torres (1953), and Curtis Mayfield (1942). After him are Tommy Bolin (1951), Stephen Kovacevich (1940), Ahmad Jamal (1930), Lindsey Buckingham (1949), Artie Shaw (1910), and Jelly Roll Morton (1890).

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