MUSICIAN

Eddie Hazel

1950 - 1992

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Edward Earl Hazel (April 10, 1950 – December 23, 1992) was an American guitarist and singer in early funk music who played lead guitar with Parliament-Funkadelic. Hazel was a posthumous inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. His ten-minute guitar solo in the Funkadelic song "Maggot Brain" is regarded as "one of the greatest solos of all time on any instrument". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eddie Hazel has received more than 1,015,350 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Eddie Hazel is the 1,895th most popular musician (down from 1,741st in 2019), the 9,636th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,822nd in 2019) and the 734th most popular American Musician.

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  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Eddie Hazel ranks 1,895 out of 3,175. Before him are Anthony Braxton, D. H. Peligro, Suzanne Ciani, Graham Coxon, Steve Rothery, and Otis Blackwell. After him are Joe Lovano, Rick J. Jordan, Wes Borland, Ed King, Jimmy Van Heusen, and Stanley Sadie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Eddie Hazel ranks 532. Before him are Chris Stein, François Dupeyron, Karl Rove, Juris Silovs, Fernando Pereira, and Ole Qvist. After him are Nikos Kotzias, Tatyana Averina, Ion Dumitru, Sharat Saxena, Bob Orton Jr., and Momčilo Vukotić. Among people deceased in 1992, Eddie Hazel ranks 242. Before him are Albert Agarunov, Sterling Holloway, László Rajcsányi, Bertalan Papp, Robert Marshak, and Kees Broekman. After him are Art Babbitt, Peter Hirt, Red Mitchell, Tamara Lazakovich, Ian Wolfe, and Marjorie Gestring.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eddie Hazel ranks 9,636 out of 20,380. Before him are Wallace Langham (1965), Gordon B. Hinckley (1910), Greg Graffin (1964), Colin Campbell Cooper (1856), Pauline Starke (1901), and Jon Ossoff (1987). After him are Charles Augustus Young (1834), Kristy Swanson (1969), Joe Lovano (1952), John Hoyt (1905), Parker Stevenson (1952), and John Carroll (1735).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Eddie Hazel ranks 734. Before him are Randy Weston (1926), Blue Mitchell (1930), Anthony Braxton (1945), D. H. Peligro (1959), Suzanne Ciani (1946), and Otis Blackwell (1931). After him are Joe Lovano (1952), Wes Borland (1975), Ed King (1949), Jimmy Van Heusen (1913), Albert Ammons (1907), and Jimmie Vaughan (1951).

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