# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-thompson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:38:52.559Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-thompson"
name: "Dave Thompson"
slug: "dave-thompson"
description: "David Thompson is an English writer who is the author of more than 100 books, largely dealing with rock and pop music, but also covering film, sports, philately, numismatics and erotica. He wrote regularly for Melody Maker and Record Collector in the 1980s, and has since contributed to magazines such as Mojo, Q, Rolling Stone and Goldmine."
tagline: "British writer and music journalist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1960-01-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.74
  momentum:             5.517928286852589
  historical:           7.494710666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1647004"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "ديف تومسون (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Thompson"
    title: "Dave Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Thompson"
    title: "Dave Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Thompson_(Journalist)"
    title: "Dave Thompson (Journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Thompson_(author)"
    title: "Dave Thompson (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Thompson_(tietokirjailija)"
    title: "Dave Thompson (tietokirjailija)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Thompson"
    title: "Dave Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/52f3acff-c457-4852-8389-91653fd8ef06"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1173362"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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