Herbie Flowers

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1938-05-19

Active to

2024-09-05

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,084

Total plays

9,393

Herbie Flowers (born Brian Keith Flowers in Isleworth, Middlesex, on 19 May 1938; died 5 September 2024) was an English musician specialising in bass guitar, double-bass and tuba, who came to prominence performing with David Bowie and Elton John, and later with Lou Reed; it is his bass that opens Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" and underpins Bowie's "Space Oddity" as well as the Harry Nilsson song "Jump into the Fire". He also played bass on the Serge Gainsbourg album Histoire de Melody Nelson <a

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,660x

2. National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Project on Criteria for Clinical Trials in Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease: I. Diagnosis and Staging Working Group Report

   · 2005 · cited 3,207x

3. National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Project on Criteria for Clinical Trials in Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease: I. The 2014 Diagnosis and Staging Working Group Report

   · 2015 · cited 2,687x

4. Salinity tolerance in halophytes*

   · 2008 · cited 2,372x

5. TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

   · 2019 · cited 1,909x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Flowers

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Isleworth

Place of death

Ditchling

Occupation

musician

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

rock music

Instrument

guitar

Image

Herbie Flowers in 2013.jpg

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