# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neal-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:18:30.262Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neal-smith"
name: "Neal Smith"
slug: "neal-smith"
description: "Neal Smith is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the rock group Alice Cooper from 1967 to 1974. He performed on the group's early albums Pretties for You and Easy Action, their breakout album Love It to Death and the subsequent successful albums Killer, School's Out, and Billion Dollar Babies. The last new studio album with the five original Alice Cooper group members participating in new music was Muscle of Love in 1973. The original group's Greatest Hits studio album was released in 1974. In 2018, a live performance album Live from the Astroturf recorded in 2015 was released, featuring four of the original group members performing eight of their hit songs, with long-time Alice Cooper solo band guitarist and friend Ryan Roxie interplaying lead guitar parts with original group rhythm guitarist Michael Bruce, on behalf of original group lead guitarist Glen Buxton, who died in 1997 of pneumonia at age 49."
tagline: "American rock drummer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Neal_Smith_1972.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: "1947-09-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.8
  momentum:             1.666666666666667
  historical:           9.678588
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/NealSmithRocks"
    handle:    "NealSmithRocks"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/6aRwtmh2Sq0EU6I81X6WEc"
    handle:    "6aRwtmh2Sq0EU6I81X6WEc"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.nealsmithrocks.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/449838"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Smith_(drummer)"
    title: "Neal Smith (drummer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Smith"
    title: "Neal Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA_(%D8%B7%D8%A8%D9%84%E2%80%8C%D8%B2%D9%86)"
    title: "نیل اسمیت (طبل‌زن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Smith"
    title: "Neal Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Smith"
    title: "Neal Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Smith_(drummer)"
    title: "Neal Smith (drummer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Smith"
    title: "Neal Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Smith"
    title: "Neal Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Smith"
    title: "Neal Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3912b016-666b-46f8-a5ec-86806227ba60"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q427302"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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