# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-cole
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:10:46.365Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-cole"
name: "Fred Cole"
slug: "fred-cole"
description: "Frederick Lee Cole was an American rock singer and guitarist who played with several bands from the 1960s until his death, most notably The Lollipop Shoppe, Dead Moon, and Pierced Arrows. He was associated mainly with the garage punk genre though he was also influenced by hard rock, blues, country, and folk music. The majority of his recorded output was self-financed and independently released on his own record label, Tombstone Records."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fred_Cole_Pierced_Arrows_gig_in_Vera_Groningen_NL.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: "1948-08-28"
deathDate: "2017-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.02
  momentum:             1.877353415814954
  historical:           6.679488
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1533618/"
    handle:    "nm1533618"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/347085"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "فرد كول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "فرد كول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Cole_(musician)"
    title: "Fred Cole (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Cole"
    title: "Fred Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Cole"
    title: "Fred Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f3f637d5-b5c8-48c1-98e7-d18162eb9179"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5494856"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1893633"
    title: "Fred Cole"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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