# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-young
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:21:34.046Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-young"
name: "Gary Young"
slug: "gary-young"
description: "Garrit Allan Robertson Young was an American musician and music producer. He was best known as the original drummer of the indie rock band Pavement from its inception in 1989 until his departure in 1993."
tagline: "American musician and music producer (1953–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pavement%2C_the_band%2C_in_Tokyo.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: "1953-05-03"
deathDate: "2023-08-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.745614666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/403609"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "غاري يونغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Young_(buben%C3%ADk)"
    title: "Gary Young (bubeník)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Young_(drummer)"
    title: "Gary Young (drummer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Young"
    title: "Gary Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Young"
    title: "Gary Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Young"
    title: "Gary Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Young"
    title: "Gary Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/95aa5cf9-b2c0-4d3c-a6e9-841d79cb24a1"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3498050"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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