Jimmy Young
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British singer and disc jockey (1921–2016)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1918
- Works
- 9
Top works
- A short history of ale
- Better pubs in old Somerset
- Better pubs in Dorset
- Csa Clinical Skills Assessment For Esl Medical Professionals
- Directory of new mini breweries & home brew inns
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1945-11-12
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 12,367
- Total plays
- 54,990
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Sir Leslie Ronald "Jimmy" Young CBE (21 September 1921 – 7 November 2016) was an English singer and radio personality. Early in his career he had two number ones and several other top ten hits in the UK chart, but he became better known for his long-running show on BBC Radio Two. Young was born in Cinderford, Gloucestershire. The son of a baker and a dressmaker, he attended East Dean Grammar School. After his parents divorced in 1939, he left for South Wales to work as an electrician. <a href="
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,569x
- CBAM: Convolutional Block Attention Module
· 2018 · cited 18,225x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,989x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,923x
- UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age
· 2015 · cited 12,415x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ronald
- Family name
- Young
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Cinderford
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- autobiographer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Knight Bachelor
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Decca
Show 3 more facts
- date of birth
- 1921-09-21
- date of death
- 2016-11-07
- start of work period
- 1950-00-00
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