# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-wells-q327327
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:02:44.255Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-wells-q327327"
name: "Peter Wells"
slug: "peter-wells-q327327"
description: "Peter William \"Pete\" Wells was the founder and slide guitarist in Australian hard rock band, Rose Tattoo, from 1976 to 1983. He was previously bass guitarist with the pioneering heavy metal outfit Buffalo from 1971 to 1976. Wells also had a solo career and issued albums, Everything You Like Tries to Kill You (1991), The Meaning of Life (1992), No Hard Feelings (1993), Orphans (1994), Go Ahead, Call the Cops (1996), It's All Fun and Games 'till Somebody Gets Hurt (1999), Hateball (2000) and Solo (2002). In 2002, he was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer and, on 27 March 2006, Wells died of the disease, aged 59. Rose Tattoo were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame on 16 August of that same year."
tagline: "Australian guitarist (1946–2006)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1946-12-31"
deathDate: "2006-03-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.17
  momentum:             3.684504861051363
  historical:           6.831608
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.petewells.net"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/702306"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%81_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "پيتير ويلس (عازف جيتار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wells_(Musiker)"
    title: "Peter Wells (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wells_(guitarist)"
    title: "Peter Wells (guitarist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wells"
    title: "Peter Wells"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Wells"
    title: "Pete Wells"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wells"
    title: "Peter Wells"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e839c867-fccb-464a-a137-20bb176909d5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327327"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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