# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/danny-whitten
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:21:19.347Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/danny-whitten"
name: "Danny Whitten"
slug: "danny-whitten"
description: "Danny Ray Whitten was an American guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work with Neil Young's backing band Crazy Horse, and for the song \"I Don't Want to Talk About It\", a hit for Rod Stewart and Everything but the Girl."
tagline: "American guitarist (1943–1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Crazy_Horse_1972.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1943-05-08"
deathDate: "1972-11-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.84
  momentum:             0.1124620060790274
  historical:           12.50621066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8376978/"
    handle:    "nm8376978"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "دانى وايتين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Danny Whitten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Whitten"
    title: "Danny Whitten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Whitten"
    title: "Danny Whitten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Whitten"
    title: "Danny Whitten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Whitten"
    title: "Danny Whitten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Whitten"
    title: "Danny Whitten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Whitten"
    title: "Danny Whitten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Whitten"
    title: "Danny Whitten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Whitten"
    title: "Danny Whitten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Whitten"
    title: "Danny Whitten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Уиттен, Дэнни"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/33bb571f-3afd-435a-957e-2601e83bb6db"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q984614"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2613868"
    title: "Danny Whitten"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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