Willie Alexander

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Austria

Active from

1926-06-30

Active to

2011-02-12

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,452

Total plays

6,614

A Philadelphia native, Willie “Loco” Alexander moved to Boston, U.S.A. and took over from Lou Reed when he left the Velvet Underground in 1971, recording the album 'Squeeze'. After various solo recordings in the early 1970s, Alexander formed the Boom Boom Band and released the eponymous, punk style 'Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band' which got substantial airplay on college radio stations at the height of the punk movement, with tracks such as 'Radio Heart' <a href="https://www.last.fm/mus

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

   · 2012 · cited 49,748x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,733x

3. ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge

   · 2015 · cited 30,183x

4. SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

   · 2012 · cited 24,118x

5. QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials

   · 2009 · cited 22,575x

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Wikidata facts

Official website

www.williealexander.com

Image

Willie Alexander 1988 Boston Channel.jpeg

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