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South African tennis player

Person · Open Library

Works
25

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  • Edouard Manet Paintings and Drawings
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  • The Wanderer
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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Active from
1947-06-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2,522
Total plays
19,196

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John Richardson aka Jayadev was born and raised in the county of Essex in the south east of England. He taught himself to play the drums at an early age and eventually became a session musician playing on many successful pop records in the UK. He found fame in the 1970’s as the drummer with glam rock band The Rubettes. Between 1974 and 1979 The Rubettes enjoyed chart success with a string of hit records in the UK and Europe including the number <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Richardson"

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Sports profile

Sport
Cricket
Position
Cricketer
Nationality
South Africa

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
John
Family name
Richardson
Gender
male
Citizenship
South Africa
Place of birth
Antananarivo
Place of death
Durban
Occupation
tennis player
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Participant in
1908 Summer Olympics
Sport
tennis
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date of birth
1874-11-01
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