Dave Cousins

Person · Open Library

Works

14

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

GB

Active from

1940-01-07

Active to

2025-07-13

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,298

Total plays

19,893

Dave Cousins (born David Joseph Cousins in Hounslow, Middlesex, on 7 January 1945; died 13 July 2025) was an English musician remembered as the leader, singer and most active songwriter of Strawbs since 1967. He also performed and recorded as the much-in-demand acoustic duo Dave Cousins & Brian Willoughby (with Strawbs guitarist Brian Willoughby) and regularly toured with Acoustic Strawbs. Cousins was a founding member of Strawbs, which started out as the Strawberry Hill Boys playing bluegras

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,683x

2. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

   · 2017 · cited 8,245x

3. Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor

   · 2019 · cited 6,672x

4. Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,658x

5. Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease

   · 2015 · cited 5,645x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Hounslow

Place of death

Canterbury

Occupation

composer

Educated at

University of Leicester

Languages spoken

English language

Field of work

music

Genre

rock music

Instrument

banjo

Record label

A&M Records

Official website

www.strawbsweb.co.uk

Image

DaveCousins08.jpg

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