Talk:Chris de Burgh

message: I removed Lady in Red from the discography because it is not an album. Although it is his most successful single, it is not an album, as everything else in the discography is. LIR is on Into The Light. There were a variety of compilations by CdeB, but not one called LIR as far as I know. See http://www.cdeb.com/maindexnew.html for official album discography. Ringbark 18:54, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Lady In Red

message: 82.143.162.72 12:42, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Classic or classical?

message: Now he was born in Ireland, he trace his ancestry back to Richard the Lion Hearted, well thats what i'm aslo trying to do with his earlier ancestors the Lords of Connacht and Earls of Ulster. now i'm sorry i don't know how to put my thing down that tells my user name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.158.76.102 (talk • contribs) 
I always thought he was adopted - I could have sworn I saw him years ago on a TV show where he said that.
He was born in Argentina to British parents and is a British national. At least, that's what he says on his website: 
British parentS? His mother is Irish (Co Wexford) Millbanks (talk) 22:29, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Ancestry

message: Why is there no mention of de Burgh's extra-marital affair with the babysitter/nanny? This young girl was the subject of Blonde Hair Blue Jeans and it was a big scandal, at least in Ireland, in the early 1990s. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gogs126 (talk • contribs) 
I added a reference to it a few years ago, but someone else (probably an upset fan) removed it citing it as "unnecessary". 213.132.48.105 (talk) 12:07, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Affair

message: I'm sure that de Burgh described himself as a rocker in a Record Collector interview, saying something along the lines of: "Most people think I just stand there and croon away in a tuxedo". I've got the issue somewhere so I'll try and dig it out to get the exact quote. 217.155.20.163 (talk) 01:38, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Rocker" claim 

message: What's with the merge and philosophy tags? Is that vandalism or a mistake? I'm taking them out. 70.226.89.96 (talk) 18:14, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tags 

message: I didn't see any reference to Chris de Burgh on the main Edel Records site although they did mention Chris Rea. Is the reference to them accurate? RichardJFoster (talk) 20:43, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edel Records reference correct? 

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message: any one has any idea about sales and certifications of his albums ?? please write with refference.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Upol007 (talk • contribs) 04:57, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sales And Certifications ? 

message: Isn't the name de Burgh a restrospective spelling of the anglicized Irish surname Burke?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.149.97.85 (talk) 16:12, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Burke

message: The article states: His début, Far Beyond These Castle Walls, was a folk-tinged stab at fantasy in the tradition of the Moody Blues that failed to chart upon its release in February 1975. That July, he released a single from the album called "Flying".
However, it appears there is no song called "Flying" on Far Beyond These Castle Walls.  How should this be fixed?  GoingBatty (talk) 01:40, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the words "from the album". Most of that section seems to have been copied from the Allmusic biography, which makes the same mistakes. Graham87 12:02, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for making that update.  How about the disambiguation needed for the "Flying" link?  Is this a cover, or an original song?  GoingBatty (talk) 18:09, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's an original song, but I don't actually know. Graham87 05:54, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem has been fixed. Graham87 03:31, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Flying" ? 

message: The "Early life" section says that he was "descended from a distinguished Hiberno-Norman family." Presumably this refers to the twelfth-century de Burghs. But anybody named Burke is descended from the same family, and there are something like 20,000 of them in Ireland. Unless there is a family tree that traces his ancestry back directly to the Hiberno-Norman de Burghs, this should be removed.  Scolaire (talk) 12:28, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the note. I've gone ahead and removed the offendingtext; it sounds like puffery to me. Graham87 08:51, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I found that entire paragraph, including the "distinguished Hiberno-Norman family" bit, on the web here. It's not clear whether it was copied from the web page or the web page copied it from here. Quite likely it's the latter, but to be on the safe side I've paraphrased it, and moved some of the info to a more appropriate part of the section.  Scolaire (talk) 09:57, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distinguished Hiberno-Norman family 

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