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Also known as Clifford Williams

English musician

Person · Open Library

Born
1941
Works
9

Top works

  • Clay Cross
  • Clay Cross
  • Clay Cross Community and Company
  • Clay Cross Revisited
  • Clay Cross and the Clay Cross Company

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Film & TV

Acting · Romford, Essex, England, UK

Clifford Williams (born 14 December 1949) is an English musician, best known as the bassist and backing vocalist of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. He started his professional music career in 1967 and had previously been in the English groups Home and Bandit. His first studio album with AC/DC was Powerage in 1978. Williams was inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member…

Known for

  • Rock: the origin — Self (archive footage)2023
  • AC/DC: The Story of Back in Black — Self2020
  • AC/DC: Dirty Deeds — Self2012
  • AC/DC Backtracks — Cliff Williams2009
  • AC/DC: Live at River Plate — Bass2009
  • AC/DC: Live at Circus Krone2009
  • AC/DC: Hells Highway — Self2008
  • AC/DC - At the Pavillon in Paris 19792008
  • AC/DC - Plug Me In — Self2007
  • AC/DC: Family Jewels — Self2005

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1949
2008 universal fire victimacademy award winneramericanamerican composercinematic classicalclassical

Member of

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
56
Total plays
164

Cliff Williams is the bassist for Hard Rock band AC/DC. He was born on December 14, 1949 in Romford, England. He moved with his family to Liverpool when he was nine, where he spent the first two working years of his life as an engineer before joining his first band. Linking up with singer Mick Stubbs, guitarist Laurie Wisefield, keyboard player Clive John and drummer Mick Cook, Cliff found himself playing bass for a band called 'Home'. By 1970 the <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Cliff+Willia

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The PHQ-9

    · 2001 · cited 39,523x

  2. A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    · 2006 · cited 28,978x

  3. Learning representations by back-propagating errors

    · 1986 · cited 24,411x

  4. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

    · 2003 · cited 21,302x

  5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,623x

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Key facts

Born
Clifford Williams , ( 1949-12-14 ) 14 December 1949 (age 76) , Romford, Essex , England
Origin
Hoylake, Merseyside , England
Genres
Hard rock heavy metal blues rock rock and roll progressive rock
Occupations
Musician singer
Instruments
Bass vocals
Years active
1966–2016, 2018–present
Label
Columbia
Member of
AC/DC The Juice
Formerly of
Home Sugar
Website
acdc .com

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Encyclopedic overview

Clifford Williams (born 14 December 1949) is an English musician, best known as the bassist and backing vocalist of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. He started his professional music career in 1967 and had previously been in the English groups Home and Bandit. His first studio album with AC/DC was Powerage in 1978. Williams was inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of AC/DC in 2003. Williams announced his retirement from AC/DC in 2016, but returned for their 2020 comeback album Power Up along with band mates Brian Johnson and Phil Rudd. His side projects include benefit concerts.

Early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cliff Williams” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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