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Chris Slade

1946 - Today

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Chris Slade (born Christopher Slade Rees; 30 October 1946) is a Welsh drummer, who is perhaps best known for playing for Manfred Mann's Earth Band from its inception in 1971 to 1978 on eight albums, and AC/DC, for which he drummed from 1989 to 1994 and performed on the 1990 album The Razors Edge. He returned to AC/DC in February 2015 to replace Phil Rudd for the "Rock or Bust World Tour". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chris Slade has received more than 2,115,767 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Chris Slade is the 147th most popular musician (up from 165th in 2019), the 584th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 681st in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Musician.

Chris Slade is most famous for being the drummer for AC/DC.

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  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Chris Slade ranks 147 out of 3,175. Before him are Maria João Pires, Caetano Veloso, Bill Evans, Carlos Kleiber, Ray Manzarek, and Benny Goodman. After him are Tony Iommi, Hans von Bülow, Compay Segundo, Dizzy Gillespie, Ravi Shankar, and Andrés Segovia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Chris Slade ranks 72. Before him are Berti Vogts, Ilie Năstase, John Woo, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Rade Šerbedžija, and Michele Placido. After him are Uri Geller, Daniel Libeskind, Nicos Anastasiades, Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, Lasse Hallström, and Julian Barnes.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Chris Slade ranks 584 out of 8,785. Before him are Antony Hewish (1924), Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767), Richard of Cornwall (1209), Maud of Wales (1869), Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), and A. S. Neill (1883). After him are Erasmus Darwin (1731), Tony Iommi (1948), Annie Lennox (1954), Joan Collins (1933), Ramsay MacDonald (1866), and Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809).

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Among MUSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among musicians born in United Kingdom, Chris Slade ranks 39. Before him are Gary Moore (1952), Jacqueline du Pré (1945), Mike Oldfield (1953), Ronnie Wood (1947), Roger Glover (1945), and Malcolm Young (1953). After him are Tony Iommi (1948), George Martin (1926), Brian Eno (1948), Ian Paice (1948), Bill Wyman (1936), and John Cale (1942).

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