# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-butler-q7324506
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:09:06.839Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-butler-q7324506"
name: "Richard Butler"
slug: "richard-butler-q7324506"
description: "Richard Lofthouse Butler is an English singer and songwriter. Butler came to prominence in the early 1980s as lead vocalist of the rock band the Psychedelic Furs and went on to found the alternative rock band Love Spit Love in the early 1990s, during a hiatus of the Psychedelic Furs. Butler began his solo career in 2006, while still being a member of the Psychedelic Furs, releasing the self-titled studio album Richard Butler."
tagline: "British singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RButler_(cropped).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: "1956-06-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.12
  momentum:             0.389160030824557
  historical:           8.357870666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1592533/"
    handle:    "nm1592533"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/78757"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%B1_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8_%D8%A3%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A)"
    title: "ريتشارد باتلر (كاتب أغاني)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Butler_(Musiker)"
    title: "Richard Butler (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Butler_(singer)"
    title: "Richard Butler (singer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Butler_(cantante)"
    title: "Richard Butler (cantante)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Butler_(musicien)"
    title: "Richard Butler (musicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Butler_(cantante)"
    title: "Richard Butler (cantante)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Butler_(musiker)"
    title: "Richard Butler (musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ba5c9214-339a-4d76-b266-931bfa42e15b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7324506"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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