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Martin Barre

1946 - Today

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Martin Lancelot Barre (; born 17 November 1946) is an English guitarist best known for his longtime role as lead guitarist of British rock band Jethro Tull, with whom he recorded and toured from 1968 until the band's initial dissolution in 2011. Barre played on all of Jethro Tull's studio albums from their 1969 album Stand Up (replacing Mick Abrahams, who played on their first album) to their 2003 album The Jethro Tull Christmas Album. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Barre has received more than 782,932 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Martin Barre is the 1,170th most popular musician (down from 998th in 2019), the 3,084th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,686th in 2019) and the 186th most popular British Musician.

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  • 780k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Martin Barre ranks 1,170 out of 3,175. Before him are Tony Joe White, Mike Stern, Ole Beich, Jimmy Bain, Valery Afanassiev, and Ian Stuart Donaldson. After him are Laurindo Almeida, Jorma Kaukonen, Terry Bozzio, Aurèle Nicolet, Renato Zero, and Big Joe Turner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Martin Barre ranks 435. Before him are Mart Siimann, Caterina Caselli, Ron Silver, José Guilherme Baldocchi, Peter Simonischek, and Angéla Németh. After him are Anatoly Kvashnin, Harry Vos, Vinod Khanna, Leonid Filatov, Lidiya Alfeyeva, and Gram Parsons.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Martin Barre ranks 3,084 out of 8,785. Before him are John Stott (1921), Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788), Ernest Renshaw (1861), Peter Sinfield (1943), Ian Stuart Donaldson (1957), and Reynold A. Nicholson (1868). After him are Frederick Grace (1884), John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (1822), Charles P. Dixon (1873), Henry Peach Robinson (1830), Chris Farlowe (1940), and Albert Hill (1889).

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Among MUSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among musicians born in United Kingdom, Martin Barre ranks 186. Before him are Anthony Phillips (1951), Geoff Nicholls (1948), Andrew Loog Oldham (1944), Jimmie Nicol (1939), Jimmy Bain (1947), and Ian Stuart Donaldson (1957). After him are Dave Holland (1948), Geoff Downes (1952), Martin Birch (1948), John Steel (1941), Roy Harper (1941), and Wilko Johnson (1947).

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