Brian Connolly

Person · Open Library

Works

9

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1942-11-24

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,206

Total plays

10,339

Brian Connolly was born on October 5, 1945 in Hamilton, Scotland. He was adopted at birth and took the name Brian McManus. When he was 18 Brian discovered that he was adopted he changed his surname to his mother's, Connolly. At age 18 Brian moved to Middlesex and replaced singer Ian Gillan (of Deep Purple and Black Sabbath fame) in a band called Wainwright's Gentlemen which included drummer Mick Tucker. Wainwright's Gentlemen split up in 1968 without releasing any recordings. <a href="http

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,947x

2. A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films

   · 1991 · cited 26,524x

3. Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

   · 2011 · cited 19,406x

4. Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

   · 2009 · cited 18,980x

5. Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony

   · 1977 · cited 18,346x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Brian

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Hamilton

Place of death

Slough

Occupation

songwriter

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

hard rock

Instrument

voice

Official website

thesweet.com/nc.htm

Image

Brian Connolly 1976.jpg

Voice type

tenor

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