Willie Alexander
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singer and keyboard player (born 1943)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Entering The Promised Land
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Austria
- Active from
- 1926-06-30
- Active to
- 2011-02-12
Discography
- Peter Alexander singt Melodien zum Verlieben1961
- Mir geht's wunderbar1962
- Wiener Spaziergänge1962
- Piccolo-Party1963
- Spaziergang durch das Land der Operette mit Peter Alexander1964
- Schöne Weihnacht mit Peter Alexander1965
- Spaziergang durch das Land des Films1965
- Wiener G'schichten mit Peter Alexander1965
- In Paris1966
- Spezialitäten von der Donau zum Don1967
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,452
- Total plays
- 6,614
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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
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,555x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,609x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,980x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Q1511218
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia
- Occupation
- singer-songwriter
- Genre
- proto-punk
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.williealexander.com
- Image
- Willie Alexander 1988 Boston Channel.jpeg
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- date of birth
- 1943-01-13
- Commons category
- Willie Alexander
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