Talk:Vincent (Don McLean song)

message: The article originally said "The song also mentions the title of a different painting by Van Gogh in each of its lines."  I changed that last word to stanzas ("Now I understand" — which word is the title?), but I'm still not sure that's right.  Does it mention the title of each painting (or indeed any painting, besides the obvious one), or merely describe them?  --zenohockey 02:45, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It merely describes them e.g. "Flaming flowers that brightly blaze" refers to the sunflowers 80.7.144.151 08:36, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I inserted an item into the "Interpretation" section regarding a humorous piece by Kevin Guilfoile, at McSweeney's. But I don't know how to add a reference and the retrieved date.  Here's the url: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2001/01/12donmclean.html  Retrieved Jan 26, 2011  Sorry I couldn't do this all on my own.Frank Lynch (talk) 03:47, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Titles of paintings 

message: This section only includes the entire song. This is a blatant copyright right offense and is not fair use, unless if partial parts of the song are used for analysis. Thus this section is removed. ResurgamII 14:10, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The explanation that "It is also thought that the song intends to portray van Gogh's tough relationship with his family. They were a wealthy family who did not accept him for his schizophrenia ("for they could not love you") and never understood his will to help the poor" may not be the only possibility. I have read that the part "for they could not love you But still your love was true"  may reflect more on the painitings themselves being unable to receprocate any love and yet they were Vincents total Love.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.195.86.40 (talk) 23:36, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

text: This article talk page is for discussing improvements to this article. If you wish to discuss changing the accepted version -- that van Gogh committed suicide -- please discuss the issue Talk:Vincent van Gogh. - SummerPhDv2.0 01:55, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lyric section

message: The four paragraphs entitled 'The song' are excellently written, and convey well the essence of what Van Gogh and his work were about. Well done to the author of this section, if it is original work! 
:I intend making a few small tweaks to this section, but do not intend to do much more than that. The part of Van Gogh's life which I feel has been omitted are the years he spent as a teacher and preacher in Ramsgate, Kent and Isleworth, London – and as a missionary in Hainaut, Belgium  – and his lack of success (as he perceived it) in both places were contributory factors to his later disillusionment. Cheers – Agendum (talk) 22:55, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In the article it says "There are also several lines that may allude to van Gogh's self-portraits: perhaps in "weathered faces lined in pain / are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand",".  I believe that this reference in the song is to the pencil drawings Van Gogh did of Pensioners in Paris (I believe).  These are fascinating and little known to the public. Rcecc (talk) 23:38, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The song 

message: Was this not sung by Brian Kennedy at George Best's funeral service in Belfast? I'm certain a song of that title was performed at the funeral.....?
Noble Korhedron 02:26, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Query regarding the funeral of George Best 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: "The song makes use mainly of guitar"77Mike77 (talk) 18:49, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awkward wording needs to be fixed. 

message: I have removed "It was created on the 100th anniversary of the midpoint of Van Gogh's life."
The "midpoint of Van Gogh's life" (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) would have been somewhere in late January or early February 1872. The imagined "100th anniversary of the midpoint" (is that a thing?) would thus be late January or early February 1972. The lyrics were written "In the autumn of 1970". The album was released 24 October 1971. No matter how you define the song's "creation" (writing the lyrics, writing the music, recording, etc.; each of which might be on more than one day), the song was written, recorded and released before this imagined anniversary.
Whether the unsourced claim originated with McLean, his publicity machine or an imaginative fan is immaterial. It's nonsense. - SummerPhDv2.0 13:00, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The editor who added the pseudo-symmetry of the anniversary also added that the song, which peaked at #12, "coincidentally" stayed on the chart for 12 weeks. The source doesn't back this up and the length of time on varikous charts is unmentioned for all of the other charts. I've removed it. - SummerPhDv2.0 13:31, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "created" 

message: What/whom did Don McLean mean with/in this line? --Steue (talk) 14:06, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "And how you tried to set them free"