Geoff Downes

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1952-08-25

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Total plays

10,558

Geoffrey Downes (born 25 August 1952 in Stockport, England,) is a rock keyboard player, songwriter, and producer. He is best known as the keyboardist for the bands Asia, Buggles, and also his stint with Yes in 1980. When he was a keyboardist for Buggles, he played multiple keyboards to achieve a New Wave technopop sound. He was once entered for the Guinness Book Of Records for performing with most keyboards (28) on stage in one performance. Geoff <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Geoff+Downes"

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,699x

2. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

   · 2017 · cited 8,258x

3. Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

   · 2012 · cited 8,052x

4. Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

   · 2007 · cited 7,930x

5. Massively parallel digital transcriptional profiling of single cells

   · 2017 · cited 7,154x

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