# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-heaton
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:43:18.666Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-heaton"
name: "Robert Heaton"
slug: "robert-heaton"
description: "Robert Charles Heaton was an English musician best known as the drummer for the rock band New Model Army. Besides being the drummer for the band Heaton was also responsible for much of the band's songwriting, contributing particularly heavily towards the musical content of the album Thunder and Consolation (1989). He was probably the first person to play a synchronous drum and harmonica solo, doing so in the song \"Shot 18\" on the No Rest for The Wicked tour."
tagline: "English rock drummer (1961-2004)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Robert_Heaton.jpg"
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: "1961-07-06"
deathDate: "2004-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.06
  momentum:             1.245847176079734
  historical:           7.224372000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/266381"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "روبرت هيتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Heaton"
    title: "Robert Heaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Heaton"
    title: "Robert Heaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Heaton"
    title: "Robert Heaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Heaton"
    title: "Robert Heaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Heaton"
    title: "Robert Heaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/47f395ee-150f-4111-8e11-a1321c033838"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327212"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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