# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-riley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:26:55.887Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-riley"
name: "Dave Riley"
slug: "dave-riley"
description: "David Michael Riley was an American musician who was the bassist in the punk rock band Big Black from 1985 until the band's dissolution in 1987. Riley moved to Chicago in 1982 from Detroit, where he had worked as a recording engineer. He played on Big Black's two studio albums, Atomizer (1986) and Songs About Fucking (1987), as well as their Headache EP (1987), several singles, and two live albums."
tagline: "American musician (1960-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dave_Riley_of_Big_Black_(1986%2C_Touch_and_Go)_(cropped).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: "1960-07-30"
deathDate: "2019-12-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.44
  momentum:             0.07668711656441718
  historical:           7.690318666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/161485"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "ديف رايلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Riley"
    title: "Dave Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Riley"
    title: "Dave Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Riley"
    title: "Dave Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Riley"
    title: "Dave Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Riley"
    title: "Dave Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Riley"
    title: "Dave Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c29ae450-90ca-4593-8892-1fd5e47e507a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3017243"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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