Talk:Wreckless Eric
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[edit]Need to add external link to Stranger than Fiction. Will Ferrell's guitar scene. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.171.123.34 (talk) 19:05, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
I received an email from Mr. Gulden saying the entry was factually incorrect & asking that I reduce it to just this stub until better information is available.
- It doesn't work that way. Why isn't the better information available now? Essentially blanking an article isn't the way to do things. Can you tell us what he said was wrong? Mike H 01:29, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)
According to Mr. Gulden, almost everything except his Birthday & Birthplace. He didn't even think "rock and roll singer, songwriter, and bandleader" was an accurate description of himself. I was going to repost the article after receiving & double checking corrected information from Mr. Gulden.
- Firstly, I am no expert on this subject matter. However, my best sources have his real surname as Goulden, not Gulden, which may cast some doubt on the authenticity of the original email sender. Also, whilst I agree the present article leaves a little to be desired in terms of layout, the basic facts appear largely sound. If the real Wreckless Eric (or anyone else) fancies submitting substantiated, conflicting evidence, we might all be somewhat the richer.
- Er..... Everything looked fine to me (except Madness being an original Stiff Records artist - I think they were on the Stiff 80 tour) as regards the details. I have pushed the "Whole Wide World" angle a bit more, since it appears on so many compilations and other peoples records, that it is likely to be most peoples point of introduction to Eric. I have also amended the real name to "Goulden", as I am reasonably certain that is his real name. I would comment that I am also not an expert of the artist, but I did go out and buy an import album just because it had Whole Wide World on it and Stiff had deleted the single before my local record shop could order it! ps. The missing "original Stiff Records" artist is Larry Wallis!LessHeard vanU 14:25, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
There are a couple of inaccuracies.
A Roomful of Monkeys was released on Go! Discs, not New Rose. I don't know if the article means to suggest that The Len Bright Combo albums were also released originally on New Rose but I'm 100% certain they weren't, there is a discography on Eric's website which probably has the label(s) for these albums.
Hope this doesn't read as a criticism, just pointing out a few issues.
- Thank you - but please can everyone use four tildes (~ x 4) to signature your comments.
Covers of Whole Wide World
[edit]There is a flag in the article that the statement about 20 covers is original research.
Here's what I could find in a few minutes with Google: http://www.edp24.co.uk/Content/WhatsOn/Music/2003/WrecklessEric.asp
"Whole Wide World, his debut single, has been covered by the Lightning Seeds, Paul Westerberg, The Monkees and Mental as Anything, and Broken Doll interpreted by Cliff Richard."
--Bobbozzo (talk) 09:06, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Genres
[edit]About the genres list, would it be wrong to add punk rock in? —Preceding unsigned comment added by RoopeOK (talk • contribs) 07:01, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Le Beat Group Electrique
[edit]This article refers to "Le Beat Group Electrique" as one of the bands Eric was in. It was not. Le Beat Group Electrique was the title of one of his solo albums. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.165.48.50 (talk) 19:28, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
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