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Mike Rutherford

1950 - Today

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Michael John Cloete Crawford Rutherford (born 2 October 1950) is an English guitarist, bassist, songwriter and singer, best known as co-founder & lead guitarist/bassist of the rock band Genesis. Rutherford and keyboardist Tony Banks are the group's two continuous members. Initially serving as Genesis's bass guitarist and backing vocalist, Rutherford also performed most of the band's rhythm guitar parts—frequently on twelve-string guitar—in collaboration with successive Genesis lead guitarists Anthony Phillips and Steve Hackett. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mike Rutherford has received more than 1,885,904 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Mike Rutherford is the 683rd most popular musician (down from 661st in 2019), the 2,053rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,006th in 2019) and the 123rd most popular British Musician.

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  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Mike Rutherford ranks 683 out of 2,662. Before him are Erroll Garner, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Adam Levine, Tim Buckley, Johann Kaspar Mertz, and Scotty Moore. After him are Fritz Busch, The Big Bopper, Paul Kantner, Jörg Demus, Chris Squire, and Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Mike Rutherford ranks 152. Before him are Natsagiin Bagabandi, Krzysztof Wielicki, Mary Hopkin, Ken Robinson, Haris Alexiou, and Daria Nicolodi. After him are Sebastião Lazaroni, Mirko Cvetković, Michio Ashikaga, Thorbjørn Jagland, Lee Wan-koo, and Richard Bandler.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mike Rutherford ranks 2,053 out of 7,765. Before him are James Glaisher (1809), Paul Nurse (1949), William Cullen (1710), W. Montgomery Watt (1909), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (1967), and Jimmy Savile (1926). After him are Ken Aston (1915), Ernest William Brown (1866), Nigel Hawthorne (1929), Charlie Whiting (1952), Harry Redknapp (1947), and Arnold Bennett (1867).

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Among MUSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among musicians born in United Kingdom, Mike Rutherford ranks 123. Before him are Damon Albarn (1968), Thom Yorke (1968), K. K. Downing (1951), Bill Bruford (1949), Phil Taylor (1954), and Rick Wakeman (1949). After him are Chris Squire (1948), Trevor Horn (1949), Alan Price (1942), Allan Holdsworth (1946), Liam Gallagher (1972), and Chas Chandler (1938).

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