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Also known as John Henry Bickford Waite

Cricket player of South Africa. (1930-2011)

Person · Open Library

Works
22

Top works

  • An address to the members of the House of Representatives
  • Legionary a Call to Arms
  • Tursiops Syndrome
  • Britannia
  • Beauty and the Singularities

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
GB
Active from
1952-07-04

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
443,205
Total plays
2,601,151

Tags

80srocksoft rockclassic rockpop

John Charles Waite (born 4 July 1952) is an English musician. He was lead vocalist for The Babys and Bad English. As a solo artist, 1984's "Missing You", was a No. 1 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 and a top ten hit on the UK Singles Chart. Waite was born in Lancaster, and was educated at Lancaster Art College (The Storey Institute). Waite first came to attention as the lead singer and bassist of The Babys, a British rock band which had moderate chart success, including two pop hits that both

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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
Gender
male
Citizenship
South Africa
Place of birth
Johannesburg
Occupation
cricketer
Languages spoken
English language
Sport
Cricket
Country for sport
South Africa
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date of birth
1930-01-19
date of death
2011-06-22
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