Person
- Born
- 1936-04-10
- Died
- 2020-06-12
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Ricky Valance (born David Spencer in Ynysddu, south Wales, on 10 April 1936; died 12 June 2020) was a Welsh singer best remembered for the UK number one single "Tell Laura I Love Her", which sold over a million copies in 1960. Valance, the eldest of seven siblings, joined the RAF aged 17. After his discharge from service, he decided to pursue a career singing. He was signed up by EMI and recorded his hit song Tell Laura I Love Her. It sold over a million copies and went to number one in 1960. <
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Toward a Theory of Organizational Creativity
· 1993 · cited 7,056x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
· 2017 · cited 6,083x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,645x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
· 2015 · cited 4,959x
- Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
· 2021 · cited 2,971x
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Key dates
- Born
- 10 April 1936
- Died
- 12 June 2020
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- David
- Family name
- Spencer
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Ynysddu
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- voice