# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barry-mason
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:41:07.816Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barry-mason"
name: "Barry Mason"
slug: "barry-mason"
description: "John Barry Mason was an English singer and songwriter. A leading songwriter of the 1960s, he wrote the bulk of his most successful songs in partnership with Les Reed. Mason gained many gold and platinum awards for his work including five Ivor Novello Awards, the most recent of them in 1998."
tagline: "English songwriter (1935–2021)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1935-07-12"
deathDate: "2021-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.81
  momentum:             0.3951081843838194
  historical:           6.83978
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1056959/"
    handle:    "nm1056959"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.barrymasonsongwriter.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/70115"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "باري ماسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بارى ماسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "باری ماسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Mason"
    title: "Barry Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Mason"
    title: "Barry Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Mason"
    title: "Barry Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b17273dd-03bb-4d49-a2e0-ad01e81d32f5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q809069"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump