Johnny Wakelin
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- 1
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1939
Discography
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The fight between Muhammad Ali & George Foreman in Kinshasa (Zaire ) on 30. Oct.1974 when Ali re-took his title inspired Johnny Wakelin to write his first Single. ‘BLACK SUPERMAN’ The record shot into the charts when Ali visited Britain and picked up the concept of being the Black Superman. In July 76 the song “IN ZAIRE” from Johnny’s album ‘Reggae, Soul and Rock & Roll’ followed and climbed up to Nr. 4 in the UK, Nr. 2 in Germany and get top listings in Australia and USA. <a href="https://ww
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Johnny
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Brighton
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- rock and roll
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Pye Records
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- date of birth
- 1939-01-01
- start of work period
- 1974-00-00
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