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Billy Wright (1924–1994) was an American individual whose professional career spanned from 1939 to 1959. He is identified in sports databases as a retired boxer of United States nationality. Additionally, he is recognized as an author with six recorded works, including *Dark Vengeance*, *Rules of the game*, and *Football is my passport*.
In the music domain, Billy Wright is associated with genres such as blues, funk, rhythm and blues, and downtempo. His discography has been referenced by 493 other encyclopedia articles. An official website exists for him, and he is categorized under his name in digital commons collections.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Dark Vengeance
- Rules of the game
- Football is my passport
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 13,110
- Total plays
- 56,364
Tags
Billy Wright (May 21, 1932 – October 28, 1991) was an American jump blues singer. Billy Wright was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Throughout his career, he was known as the "Prince of the Blues." He was a key figure in Atlanta blues after World War II and had a major influence on rock and roll pioneer Little Richard, whom he helped get his first recording contract. He recorded his last recordings in 1959. He continued to do shows around Atlanta until he suffered a stroke <a href="https://www.last.fm
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,263x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,691x
- Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system
· 2013 · cited 10,901x
- Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
· 2003 · cited 10,088x
- NIA‐AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease
· 2018 · cited 9,618x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- 1948
- England B
- Full name
- William Ambrose Wright
- Date of birth
- ( 1924-02-06 ) 6 February 1924
- Place of birth
- Ironbridge , Shropshire , England
- Date of death
- 3 September 1994 (1994-09-03) (aged 70)
- Place of death
- London , England
- Height
- 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
- Position
- Centre-back
- Years
- Team
- 1939 1959
- Wolverhampton Wanderers
- 1946 1959
- England
- 1962 1966
- Arsenal
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Fighting
- Team
- _Retired Boxing
- Position
- Boxer
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
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Encyclopedic overview
William Ambrose Wright (6 February 1924 – 3 September 1994) was an English footballer who played as a centre-back. He spent his entire club career at Wolverhampton Wanderers. The first footballer in the world to earn 100 international caps, Wright also held the record for longest unbroken run in competitive international football, with 70 consecutive appearances, although that was surpassed by Andoni Zubizarreta's 86 consecutive appearances for Spain (1985–94). He also made a total of 105 appearances for England, captaining them a record 90 times, including during their campaigns at the 1950, 1954 and 1958 World Cup.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Billy Wright” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.