# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stuart-adamson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:04:48.269Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stuart-adamson"
name: "Stuart Adamson"
slug: "stuart-adamson"
description: "William Stuart Adamson was a Scottish rock guitarist and singer. Adamson began his career in the late 1970s as a founder and performer with the punk rock band Skids. After leaving Skids in 1981, he formed Big Country and was the band's lead singer and guitarist. The group's commercial heyday was in the 1980s. In the 1990s, he was a member of the alternative country band the Raphaels. In the late 1970s the British music journalist John Peel referred to his virtuosity as a guitarist by calling him \"a new Jimi Hendrix\"."
tagline: "Scottish guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter (1958–2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stuart_Adamson_91.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: "1958-04-11"
deathDate: "2001-12-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.45242266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/stuart.adamson.520"
    handle:    "stuart.adamson.520"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011529/"
    handle:    "nm0011529"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Stuart Adamson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Adamson"
    title: "Stuart Adamson"
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    title: "Stuart Adamson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump