# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elliott-randall
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:59:17.422Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elliott-randall"
name: "Elliott Randall"
slug: "elliott-randall"
description: "Elliott Randall is an American guitarist, best known for being a session musician and performing with popular music artists. Randall played the well-known guitar solos on Steely Dan's song \"Reelin' in the Years\" and Irene Cara's song \"Fame\". The former solo was ranked as the 40th best guitar solo of all time by the readers of Guitar World magazine and the eighth best guitar solo by Q4 Music."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elliott_Randall.png?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: "1947-06-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.52
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.287233333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/elliottrandall"
    handle:    "elliottrandall"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/elliottrandallmusic"
    handle:    "elliottrandallmusic"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliottrandall/"
    handle:    "elliottrandall"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/351798"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AA_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "إليوت راندال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Randall"
    title: "Elliott Randall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Randall"
    title: "Elliott Randall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Randall"
    title: "Elliott Randall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Randall"
    title: "Elliott Randall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1bca0b10-157d-4d42-86c2-d5b42344668c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1332344"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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