# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-sherwood
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:38:53.265Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-sherwood"
name: "Jim Sherwood"
slug: "jim-sherwood"
description: "Euclid James \"Motorhead\" Sherwood was an American rock musician notable for being a member of the original version of Frank Zappa's band the Mothers of Invention, providing soprano, tenor and baritone saxophone, tambourine, vocals and vocal sound effects. He appeared on all the albums of the original Mothers line-up and the 'posthumous' releases Burnt Weeny Sandwich and Weasels Ripped My Flesh, as well as certain subsequent Zappa albums. He also appeared in the films 200 Motels, Video from Hell and Uncle Meat."
tagline: "Musician (1942–2011)"
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: "1942-05-08"
deathDate: "2011-12-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.25
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.224264
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792808/"
    handle:    "nm0792808"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/02966404-7ae8-42d1-8bc8-d4bfdf261e91"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جيم شيروود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%88%D8%AF"
    title: "جيم شيروود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Sherwood"
    title: "Jim Sherwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Sherwood"
    title: "Jim Sherwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Sherwood"
    title: "Jim Sherwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Sherwood"
    title: "Jim Sherwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Sherwood"
    title: "Jim Sherwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Sherwood"
    title: "Jim Sherwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D1%83%D0%B4%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BC"
    title: "Шервуд, Джим"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q539257"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1537326"
    title: "Jim Sherwood"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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