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Kevin Ayers

1944 - 2013

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Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter who was active in the English psychedelic music movement. Ayers was a founding member of the psychedelic band Soft Machine in the mid-1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene. He recorded a series of albums as a solo artist and over the years worked with Brian Eno, Syd Barrett, Bridget St John, John Cale, Elton John, Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Mike Oldfield, Nico and Ollie Halsall, among others. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kevin Ayers has received more than 765,476 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Kevin Ayers is the 704th most popular singer (up from 738th in 2019), the 2,296th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,370th in 2019) and the 85th most popular British Singer.

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  • 770k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Kevin Ayers ranks 704 out of 3,528Before him are Afrika Bambaataa, Julio Jaramillo, Andrea True, Mike Love, Renaud, and Daddy Yankee. After him are Richard Anthony, Philipp Kirkorov, Bobby Vinton, Leonid Utyosov, Lila Downs, and Jennifer Warnes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Kevin Ayers ranks 278Before him are Whitfield Diffie, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Raoul Lambert, Glen Cook, Jiří Holeček, and Abdulah Sidran. After him are Alexander Vencel, Alex Metreveli, Gladys Knight, Michael Buffer, John Atta Mills, and Angela Winkler. Among people deceased in 2013, Kevin Ayers ranks 187Before him are Pál Csernai, Saye Zerbo, Aleksei Yuryevich German, Jeff Hanneman, Amedeo Amadei, and Hjalmar Andersen. After him are Jean Vincent, Lothar Bisky, Hiroshi Nakajima, Aníbal Paz, Yusef Lateef, and Otto Muehl.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kevin Ayers ranks 2,296 out of 7,765Before him are Robert Broom (1866), Ian Richardson (1934), Edward Arthur Milne (1896), Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg (1889), John Stott (1921), and Bernard Fox (1927). After him are Wilfred Owen (1893), Robert Stevenson (1905), John Evelyn (1620), Christabel Pankhurst (1880), Paul Smith (1946), and Richard Madden (1986).

Among SINGERS In United Kingdom

Among singers born in United Kingdom, Kevin Ayers ranks 85Before him are Shane MacGowan (1957), Christine McVie (1943), Gary Glitter (1944), Midge Ure (1953), Shakin' Stevens (1948), and Fish (1958). After him are Paul Young (1956), Peter Pears (1910), Alfred Deller (1912), Blaze Bayley (1963), Nicky Hopkins (1944), and Andrew Ridgeley (1963).