# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/iain-matthews
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:36:28.176Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/iain-matthews"
name: "Iain Matthews"
slug: "iain-matthews"
description: "Iain Matthews is an English musician. He was an original member of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention from 1967 to 1969 before leaving to form his own band, Matthews Southern Comfort, which had a UK number one in 1970 with their cover of Joni Mitchell's \"Woodstock\". In 1979, his recording of Terence Boylan's \"Shake It\" reached No. 13 on the US charts."
tagline: "British musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Iain_Matthews_at_Cropredy_2007.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: "1946-06-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.09914933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5382081/"
    handle:    "nm5382081"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2y3DwDaOnRIavFlGsgSuTE"
    handle:    "2y3DwDaOnRIavFlGsgSuTE"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.iainmatthews.nl/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "لاين ماثيوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "لاين ماثيوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "لاین ماثیوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Matthews"
    title: "Iain Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Matthews"
    title: "Iain Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Matthews"
    title: "Iain Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Matthews"
    title: "Iain Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Matthews"
    title: "Iain Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Matthews"
    title: "Iain Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA"
    title: "イアン・マシューズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Matthews"
    title: "Iain Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Matthews"
    title: "Iain Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Matthews"
    title: "Iain Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Matthews"
    title: "Iain Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/17c3cfb3-0f55-4734-b9c8-1ee5683cca19"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1655586"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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