# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-locking
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:03:39.331Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-locking"
name: "Brian Locking"
slug: "brian-locking"
description: "Brian \"Licorice\" Locking was an English musician and songwriter. He is best known for being the bass player for The Shadows for sixteen months between 1962 and 1963. He was also in groups that served as the backing band for Vince Taylor, Adam Faith, Tommy Steele and Marty Wilde, and also worked as a session player with numerous artists including rock stars Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran and Joe Brown, as well as Conway Twitty and Brenda Lee."
tagline: "British musician"
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: "1938-12-22"
deathDate: "2020-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.09
  momentum:             0.5011933174224343
  historical:           10.56501333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "بريان لوكينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Locking"
    title: "Brian Locking"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Locking"
    title: "Brian Locking"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Locking"
    title: "Brian Locking"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Locking"
    title: "Brian Locking"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Locking"
    title: "Brian Locking"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Locking"
    title: "Brian Locking"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Locking"
    title: "Brian Locking"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Locking"
    title: "Brian Locking"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Locking"
    title: "Brian Locking"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Браян Локінг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a188a57b-399c-47e8-a21c-5bc331a3ccd2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q585827"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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