# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-hardcastle
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:54:33.112Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-hardcastle"
name: "Paul Hardcastle"
slug: "paul-hardcastle"
description: "Paul Louis Hardcastle is an English composer, musician, record producer, songwriter, radio presenter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for his song \"19\", which went to number one on the UK singles chart in 1985."
tagline: "British recording artist, composer, producer, songwriter, radio presenter and multi-instrumentalist"
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: "1957-12-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.09076666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0362058/"
    handle:    "nm0362058"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0SgDfSfWqkZMW96aT2oQZ1"
    handle:    "Paul Hardcastle"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.paulhardcastle.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84"
    title: "باول هاردكاسل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84"
    title: "پول هاردكاسل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hardcastle"
    title: "Paul Hardcastle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hardcastle"
    title: "Paul Hardcastle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hardcastle"
    title: "Paul Hardcastle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hardcastle"
    title: "Paul Hardcastle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hardcastle"
    title: "Paul Hardcastle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hardcastle"
    title: "Paul Hardcastle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hardcastle"
    title: "Paul Hardcastle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ポール・ハードキャッスル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8F%B4_%ED%95%98%EB%93%9C%EC%BA%90%EC%8A%AC"
    title: "폴 하드캐슬"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hardcastle"
    title: "Paul Hardcastle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hardcastle"
    title: "Paul Hardcastle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hardcastle"
    title: "Paul Hardcastle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hardcastle"
    title: "Paul Hardcastle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/58e2800d-991d-4fe9-860b-1d27931ae8de"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q938029"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2514634"
    title: "Paul Hardcastle"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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