# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-bedford-q718287
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:52:57.520Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-bedford-q718287"
name: "David Bedford"
slug: "david-bedford-q718287"
description: "David Vickerman Bedford was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music. He was the brother of the conductor Steuart Bedford, the grandson of the composer, painter and author Herbert Bedford and the composer Liza Lehmann, and the son of Leslie Bedford, an inventor, and Lesley Duff, a soprano opera singer."
tagline: "English composer and musician (1937–2011)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/David_Vickerman_Bedford.jpg"
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: "1937-08-04"
deathDate: "2011-10-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.70345866666667
  currentAttention:     11.08
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0066031/"
    handle:    "nm0066031"
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    url:       "https://web.archive.org/web/20081230141300/http://www.impulse-music.co.uk/davidbedford/"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Bedford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Bedford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Bedford (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Bedford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Bedford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Bedford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bedford"
    title: "David Bedford"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Bedford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Bedford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bedford"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump