West, Leslie

URI(s)

• http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92037931

Instance Of

• MADS/RDF PersonalName
• MADS/RDF Authority
• SKOS Concept

Scheme Membership(s)

• Library of Congress Name Authority File

Collection Membership(s)

• Names Collection - Authorized Headings
• LC Names Collection - General Collection

Variants

• Weinstein, Leslie, 1945-2020

Additional Information

• http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n92037931

• Birth Date

  (edf) 1945-10-22

• Death Date

  (edf) 2020-12-22

• Birth Place

  New York (N.Y.)

• Field of Activity

  Popular music

• Occupation

  Guitarists
  Singers

Related Terms

• Leslie West Band
• West, Bruce & Laing (Musical group)

Additional Related Forms

• Mountain (Musical group)

Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

• http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC%7Cn++92037931#skos:Concept

Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

• Leslie West Label from public data source Wikidata

Sources

• found: Guitar's practicing musicians [SR] p1989:label (Leslie West)
• found: Guardian WWW site, viewed Jan. 15, 2021(Leslie West (Leslie Weinstein), musician, born 22 October 1945; died 22 December 2020; born Leslie Weinstein in New York; changed his surname to West. His band Mountain made a spectacular impact when they played their fourth gig at the original Woodstock festival in August 1969. West had a powerful presence as a singer, but it was his massive, overdriven guitar sound that became the group's most memorable trademark)

Change Notes

• 1992-04-06: new
• 2021-01-15: revised

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