Jeffrey Lee Pierce · Spotify · Courtesy of Spotify
Jeffrey Lee Pierce
Sign in to saveAmerican singer (1958-1996)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Go tell it on the mountain
- Go Tell the Mountain
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1958
- Active to
- 1996
Discography
Member of
- Red Lights1978–1978
- The Gun Club1979–1996
- Tex & the Horseheads
- The JLP Sessions Project
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 12,932
- Total plays
- 146,464
Tags
punk bluespost-punkbluesgaragealternative
Jeffrey Lee Pierce (June 27, 1958 - March 31, 1996) was one of the founding members of the 1980s punk band The Gun Club, along with Kid Congo Powers (of Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds, who later joined The Cramps. Pierce died in 1996. In the 1980s Pierce and his band released a number of albums, of which the first one can be regarded as a lasting achievement and one of the best punk albums of the early 1980s: "Fire of Love" contained several songs that won critical acclaim, above al
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jeffrey
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Montebello
- Place of death
- Salt Lake City
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Genre
- post-punk
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.jeffreyleepierce.com/Site/home.html
- Image
- Jeffrey Lee Pierce cropped.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1958-06-27
- date of death
- 1996-03-31
- cause of death
- cerebral hemorrhage
- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
- member of
- The Gun Club
- manner of death
- natural causes
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
Gallery (2)
Available in 11 languages
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0