# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fad-gadget
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:43:01.811Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fad-gadget"
name: "Fad Gadget"
slug: "fad-gadget"
description: "Francis John Tovey, known also by his stage name Fad Gadget, was a British avant-garde electronic musician and vocalist. He was a proponent of both new wave and early industrial music, fusing pop-structured songs with mechanised experimentation."
tagline: "British singer (1956–2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank_tovey_as_fad_gadget_in_paradiso_16_january_2002-1629195351.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1956-09-08"
deathDate: "2002-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.59396266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS-IDxC0GbMqoeNKDI_8UPw"
    handle:    "UCS-IDxC0GbMqoeNKDI_8UPw"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2917146/"
    handle:    "nm2917146"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.fadgadget.co.uk"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "فاد جادجيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Tovey"
    title: "Frank Tovey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fad_Gadget"
    title: "Fad Gadget"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fad_Gadget"
    title: "Fad Gadget"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Tovey"
    title: "Frank Tovey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%93_%D7%92'%D7%90%D7%93%D7%92%D7%98"
    title: "פד ג'אדגט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fad_Gadget"
    title: "Fad Gadget"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fad_Gadget"
    title: "Fad Gadget"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8C%A8%EB%93%9C_%EA%B0%80%EC%A0%9C%ED%8A%B8"
    title: "패드 가제트"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Tovey"
    title: "Frank Tovey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fad_Gadget"
    title: "Fad Gadget"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fad_Gadget"
    title: "Fad Gadget"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%DB%8C%DA%88_%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%AC%D9%B9"
    title: "فیڈ گیجٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bfe4ef3f-318f-4d45-be4e-d1e5d872171e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1444339"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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