John Cale

Also known as John Davies Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer (born 1942)

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John Cale is a Welsh composer, singer-songwriter, and record producer born in 1942 who has been influential in experimental music and rock. He is known for his work in avant-garde music and his contributions to the recording industry over several decades.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1814
Died: 1880
Works: 22

Top works

Israel's story a warning to this church and nation
Lent lectures
Letters to a young clergyman
"Subjection, no, not for an hour?"
"Always abounding in the work of the Lord"

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Los Angeles
Active from: 1942-03-09

art popart rockavant-garde popbaroque popbritishclassic pop and rock

Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 582,403
Total plays: 10,161,833

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,647x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,720x
Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,356x
Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,339x
The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,859x

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Wikidata facts

Official website: john-cale.com
Image: John-cale.jpg
Number of children: 1

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Commons category: John Cale
date of birth: 1940-12-03
birth name: John Davies Cale
start of work period: 1963-00-00
floruit: 1997-01-01
social media followers: 11500
name in native language: John Cale
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Article

John Davies Cale (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh singer, musician, composer, record producer and arranger. He is a founding member of the influential American rock band the Velvet Underground, with whom he recorded two studio albums. Over his six-decade career, Cale has worked in various styles of rock and avant-garde music.

John Cale studied music at Goldsmiths College, University of London before moving in 1963 to New York City, where he performed as part of the drone collective the Theatre of Eternal Music and formed the Velvet Underground. Since leaving the band in 1968, Cale has released seventeen solo studio albums, including Paris 1919 (1973) which is retrospectively considered to be his masterpiece, Fear (1974), Slow Dazzle (1975) and Music for a New Society (1982). In 1990, he collaborated with Velvet Underground co-founder Lou Reed on Songs for Drella which was a tribute for their mentor Andy Warhol.