Talk:Ian Hunter (singer)

message: I made some mods: added recent promo photo, added musician info box, cleaned up the summary, cleaned up the first half of the Early Years section, added proper citation to Devine's biography. 
Sorry, but the Morton Fraser references were excessive. That's a minor detail almost not worth mentioning in a bio as long as Hunter's - so it's definitely not worth two paragraphs of background. Than belongs in a Morton Fraser Gang wiki page, not Hunter's. 
Ditto the obsession with Hunter's age and name. His authorised biography gives his correct birthdate, so there's no reason to cite conflicting sources when you can cite a correct one. And he was still "Patterson" in CBS press releases in 1968, so there's no need to dwell on it for two paragraphs in the first paragraph of his bio. 
ALSO: the huge list of magazine articles at the bottom are not sources, they are just copied from a fan website. Add an external link to fan website, but listing all those as "sources" just adds quantity, not quality.
LuckyLoser 05:24, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mods to Summary and Early Years  

message: with the books cited, the list of magazine articles is overkill. 
MarkinBoston 18:39, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed magazine article list 

message: The success of Ian's best known solo tune Cleveland Rocks is well described but readers are left wondering why he'd pen it in the first place.  In an early 1980s interview on Night Flight Ian explained that he wanted to pay tribute to Cleveland for being the first locale in America to really embrace Mott the Hoople.  Cleveland was well known at the time as a launching pad for musical acts.  In the same Night Flight program Mott the Hoople is shown performing Cleveland Rocks in New York City.  As the song nears the end Ian pauses, waiting, as I'm sure he must've expected, for the audience to scream "New York rocks!" in place of "Cleveland Rocks!" which was indicative of the stage skill of Ian Hunter.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mooncastle (talk • contribs) 13:29, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inspiration for Cleveland Rocks 

message: In copy editing, I see these unencyclopedic statements, and I'd like to call on someone with access to the works referenced to rephrase them:
Early Years
* Ian recalls jumping around like a lunatic on stage:
* Tensions were in the air though, both musically and in his personal life. While his wife attended to home life, Hunter resumed his wild ways with his Northampton mates.
Dementia13 (talk) 23:51, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV 

message: It is not unreasonable for someone to self-identify as more than one nationality. It would appear that Hunter has self-identified as English, Scottish and British; referenced quotes to him doing so for all three options are easily found on the internet. As "British" is a catch-all and the specification that he is specifically only English negates his own additional Scottish self-identification, isn't the former the most fitting term to employ? At the very least, it is not reasonable to blank material regarding one of these self-idents to promote the sole reference to one of the others. Mutt Lunker (talk) 23:16, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nationality 

message: National Service ended gradually from 1957. It was decided that those born on or after 1 October 1939 would not be required, but conscription continued for those born earlier whose call-up had been delayed for any reason. Did Ian Hunter do national service? Burraron (talk) 20:01, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  National Service?