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Mike Ness

American musician (born 1962)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 19, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Michael James Ness is an American musician who is the lead guitarist, lead vocalist and songwriter for the punk rock band Social Distortion, which was formed in 1978. He has also released two solo albums, Cheating at Solitaire and Under the Influences.

Editorial summary

“Mike Ness” enters the record as american musician (born 1962). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mike, Ness and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mike, Ness and American.
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“Mike Ness” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mike, Ness and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 19, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1978.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mike Ness” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.