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Gary Brooker

1945 - 2022

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Gary Brooker (29 May 1945 – 19 February 2022) was an English singer-songwriter, pianist, and the founder and lead singer of the rock band Procol Harum. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gary Brooker has received more than 1,093,770 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Gary Brooker is the 244th most popular singer (up from 634th in 2019), the 1,020th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,134th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Gary Brooker ranks 244 out of 3,528. Before him are Kim Carnes, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Bessie Smith, Van Morrison, Eazy-E, and Marian Gold. After him are F. R. David, Nicolai Gedda, Frida Boccara, Psy, Rashid Behbudov, and John Fogerty.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Gary Brooker ranks 85. Before him are Dean Koontz, James Avery, Kim Carnes, Marthe Keller, Türkan Şoray, and Van Morrison. After him are Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, Yochanan Vollach, Robert Sarah, Milo Manara, John Fogerty, and Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia. Among people deceased in 2022, Gary Brooker ranks 26. Before him are Christos Sartzetakis, Eric Walter Elst, Bob Saget, Margarita Lozano, Shintaro Ishihara, and Leonid Kuravlyov. After him are Olga Szabó-Orbán, Elza Soares, Toshiki Kaifu, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Jean-Claude Mézières, and Borislav Ivkov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gary Brooker ranks 1,020 out of 7,765. Before him are Princess Marie of Orléans (1865), P. G. Wodehouse (1881), Winifred Wagner (1897), Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (1156), Helen McCrory (1968), and Peter Shilton (1949). After him are John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792), Lord Randolph Churchill (1849), J. Michael Kosterlitz (1943), Cynthia Lennon (1939), Samuel Bellamy (1689), and Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (1506).

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Among SINGERS In United Kingdom

Among singers born in United Kingdom, Gary Brooker ranks 32. Before him are Dave Gahan (1962), Dua Lipa (1995), Sarah Brightman (1960), Susan Boyle (1961), Robbie Williams (1974), and Van Morrison (1945). After him are Kim Wilde (1960), Shirley Bassey (1937), Rod Evans (1947), Tim Staffell (1948), Peter Green (1946), and Glenn Hughes (1951).

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