Jackie Edwards
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Jamaican recording artist; musician and songwriter (1938–1992)
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- 3
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- Santé Mentale des Enfants
- Splongy Splooms
- A bed by the sea
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Edwards' came to the attention of Chris Blackwell in 1959 and when Blackwell set up Island Records in London in 1962, Edwards travelled with him. Edwards worked as a singer and songwriter for Island as well as performing duties such as delivering records.[1] He wrote both "Keep On Running" and "Somebody Help Me", that became #1 singles in the United Kingdom for The Spencer Davis Group.[1] he continued to work as a recording artist himself, with regular album releases through to the mid-1980s. <a
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
· 1998 · cited 14,796x
- Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
· 2013 · cited 13,117x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,419x
- The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology
· 2008 · cited 10,634x
- IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP
· 2013 · cited 9,512x
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- date of birth
- 1938-01-01
- date of death
- 1992-08-15
- start of work period
- 1950-00-00
- birth name
- Wilfred Gerald Edwards
- pseudonym
- E. Abdul
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