# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-tandy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:05:09.906Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-tandy"
name: "Richard Tandy"
slug: "richard-tandy"
description: "Richard Tandy was an English musician. He was the full-time keyboardist in the band Electric Light Orchestra (\"ELO\"). His palette of keyboards was an important ingredient in the group's sound, especially on the albums A New World Record (1976), Out of the Blue (1977), Discovery (1979) and Time (1981). He collaborated musically with ELO frontman Jeff Lynne on many projects, among them songs for the Electric Dreams soundtrack, Lynne's solo album Armchair Theatre and Lynne-produced Dave Edmunds album Information."
tagline: "British keyboardist (1948–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Tandy-ELO.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: "1948-03-26"
deathDate: "2024-05-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.13043333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0849217/"
    handle:    "nm0849217"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.face-the-music.de/tandy_e.html"
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    title: "Richard Tandy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Tandy"
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    title: "Richard Tandy"
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    title: "Richard Tandy"
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    title: "Richard Tandy"
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    title: "Тэнди, Ричард"
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    title: "Річард Тенді"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump