Ben Watson

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1923-03-03

Active to

2012-05-29

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

130

Total plays

785

Ben Watson (born 1956) is a British writer on music and culture of Marxist views, known especially for his books on Frank Zappa. He presents "Late Lunch With Out To Lunch", a weekly show on ResonanceFM (London). Watson is well-known for his writing in The Wire , as well as the author of numerous books, often entailing studies of popular culture from a Marxist perspective. Watson is a member of the British Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party; his <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ben+Watson">Re

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>

   · 2015 · cited 75,814x

2. Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

   · 2012 · cited 53,934x

3. Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.

   · 1988 · cited 29,272x

4. HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements

   · 2015 · cited 22,014x

5. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

   · 2009 · cited 19,930x

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Sports profile

Sport

Soccer

Team

_Retired Soccer

Position

Midfielder

Nationality

England

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Ben

Family name

Watson

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

London

Occupation

association football player

Languages spoken

English language

Sport

association football

Member of team

Charlton Athletic F.C.

Position played

midfielder

Mass

65

Image

Ben Watson 2015.jpg

Height

178

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