Max Bygraves

Person · Open Library

Born

1922

Works

11

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1922-10-16

Active to

2012-08-31

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

24,492

Total plays

126,428

Max Bygraves OBE (born 16 October 1922 - 1st September 2012) in Rotherhithe, London as Walter William Bygraves) is an English singer songwriter, famous for his waving hands. He also appeared on his own television shows, sometimes performing comedy sketches between songs. Shows he presented included the gameshow Family Fortunes. According to the You Need Hands Songfacts, Max went into showbusiness more or less by accident as a comedy impressionist, but later picked up the basics of songwriting.

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

   · 2012 · cited 24,114x

2. A smooth particle mesh Ewald method

   · 1995 · cited 21,200x

3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,049x

4. Welcome to the Tidyverse

   · 2019 · cited 19,422x

5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,520x

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Quotes

• “My outlook is that life is like a self-service restaurant and you have to help yourself. Sometimes when you see what the other fella has got, you want some of it too.”
• “I'd never malign another performer, but the style is not good enough. They've done away with laugh pay-offs. We were given nine minutes or eight minutes. Now they wander wherever they like, they don't get to any jokes before they've been on for two minutes. We had to make an impact in ten seconds.”

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Wikidata facts

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