# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/geoff-nicholls
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:13:41.930Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/geoff-nicholls"
name: "Geoff Nicholls"
slug: "geoff-nicholls"
description: "Geoffrey James Nicholls was an English guitarist and keyboardist, and longtime member of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath until 2004. Nicholls also played in the NWOBHM band Quartz before joining Black Sabbath. In the 1960s/early 1970s, Geoff played lead guitar/Keyboards for the Birmingham bands The Boll Weevils, The Seed, Johnny Neal and the Starliners, Bandy Legs, Jimmy Helms, Cozy Powell, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Martin, Willie Basse and played keyboards for World of Oz."
tagline: "British guitarist and keyboardist (1948–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Conferencia_Nicholls_black_sabbath.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1948-02-29"
deathDate: "2017-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6831119544592028
  historical:           17.62354933333334
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump