Talk:Rebel Rebel

message: "The first track reduced from the forthcoming Diamond Dogs album, “Rebel Rebel” was a rather unrepresentative sample of Bowie’s latest direction. " This is simply stolen from some review of rebel rebel. The whole article reads like a review. So,,, I'm culling it to NPOV (or as far as I can) and then having a waiting period for comments.
:To our anonymous contributor, I suggest you cite your sources before accusing an earlier editor of stealing from a review. I happen to know that the editor who wrote that (not me in case you're wondering, but he's not been active on WP for a while) based his information on Nicholas Pegg's The Complete David Bowie, so while it may sound 'review-like' I'd be surprised if he took it from a review - unless you can prove otherwise. Certainly the wording can be improved - I will add some stuff myself shortly - but pls be prepared to back up accusations of plagiarism. Cheers, Ian Rose 05:35, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stolen from Ivor 

message: Is the middle eight missing? It doesn't seems to gave one. 95.147.21.42 (talk) 20:31, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middle Eight 

message: You got your mother in a whirl / She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl". Can understand why people think it is gender bending and why it might have been coming out of the androgynous glam movement. For some of us around in the late 60s and 70s  at the time "can not tell if your a boy or a girl" had a somewhat different meaning. Many boys and girls in that era had straight long hair and wore similar shirts and blue jeans so from a distance it was hard to tell if the person was a boy or a girl especially for older generations who grew up in the WWII era when men and women had vastly different clothing and hair styles. Parents would often say something like, these damm kids/hippies can't tell if they are a boy or a girl. Anyway was and is a killer song. Edkollin (talk) 19:47, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gender Bending Lyrics? 

message: I'm not a musician so I hesitate to edit the article itself, but... I've been playing "Rebel Rebel" and Zappa's "Trouble Every Day" side by side, and to my ear they open with the exact same guitar riff. Not to mention: same tempo, key, everything. And Trouble Every Day was written in 1965 and released in 1966, years before Rebel Rebel. I guess it could be a coincidence but that seems unlikely. Maybe Bowie heard the Zappa song on the radio & forgot about it, thought he had made it up... --Potosino (talk) 02:23, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening riff 

message: are you copyediting this, or can I resume? Regards, Willbb234Talk (please  me in replies) 20:30, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: * I apologise! I thought you had forgotten it since your last edit was five days ago. I'm finished now. Please feel free to go over it yourself and make sure I haven't missed anything. You should take credit for the c/e and advise the requester when you're done. Again, I'm sorry. I should have checked with you first. Regards, Twofingered Typist (talk) 21:19, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  hi there. I have been through the article and changed what I can (very little). Please take full credit. Regards, Willbb234Talk (please  me in replies) 19:16, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for the update. Regards, Twofingered Typist (talk) 19:22, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyedit