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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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,476

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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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Geoffrey

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Stockport

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Order of the Badge of Honour

Genre

electronic rock

Instrument

electronic keyboard

Official website

geoffdownes.com

Image

Geoff Downes 7060.jpg

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