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Robert Hazard
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American musician, songwriter, recording artist (1948–2008)
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Vinony's link graph records 83 inbound references to Robert Hazard, and connects out to YouTube, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
Vinony files it under 1948 births, 2008 deaths and 20th-century American songwriters.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Ueber gemischte Disulfone
- The original text-wrestling book
- Hacking New York
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1948
- Active to
- 2008
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 7,730
- Total plays
- 30,564
Tags
In 1979 Robert Hazard recorded a demo of the song "Girls Just Want To Have Fun". Which was later re-recorded by Cyndi Lauper, who made the song a hit in 1984. This was followed in 1981 by demos of the songs "Escalator of Life" and "Change Reaction". These two songs received extensive radio airplay in Philadelphia. Around this time, Kurt Loder from Rolling Stone magazine chanced upon a performance by Robert Hazard and the Heroes at a Philadelphia club. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Robert+
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia
- Place of death
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Girls Just Want to Have Fun
- Record label
- RCA Records
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- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- date of death
- 2008-08-05
- date of birth
- 1948-08-21
- manner of death
- natural causes
- birth name
- Robert Rimato
- pseudonym
- Robert Hazard
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Sources (3)
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