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Holdsworth, Allan

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Personal name headingHoldsworth, Allan
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Variant(s)Holdsworth, Alan
LocatedVista (Calif.)
Birth date1946-97-06
Death date2017-04-16
Place of birthBradford (Yorkshire, England)
Place of deathVista (Calif.)
Field of activityPopular music
Profession or occupationGuitarists
Found inHis Atavachron [SR] 1986: label (Allan Holdsworth) container (guitarist)
Holdsworth, A. The sixteen men of Tain. 2003: (Alan Holdsworth, guitar, synthaxe)
New Grove dict. of jazz, 2nd ed. (Holdsworth, Allan; b. Aug. 6, 1946, Bradford, England; English electric guitarist; some sources give year of birth as 1948)
Los Angeles times WWW site, viewed Apr. 18, 2017 (in obituary dated Apr. 17, 2017: Allan Holdsworth, an innovative and influential electric guitarist who helped shape everything from progressive rock to jazz over the past half century, died Sunday [Apr. 16, 2017] at his home in north San Diego County; he was 70; played in a number of groups, from Soft Machine to the progressive rock band U.K.; born Aug. 6, 1946, in Bradford, a small town in Yorkshire, England; had lived in Southern California since 1980, most recently in Vista)