Talk:George Melly

message: Technically, GM is bisexual, but let's be careful using terms like "coming to terms with his bisexuality" when referring to his youth. At that time, he was exclusively attracted to men. Tomandlu 09:34, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: techically, who gives a flying fuck, being raised in a time were being left-handed was deemed evil, surely any modern measure of his sexualiity isn't correct or appropriate 05:41, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: technically, I'd agree :) Tomandlu 19:24, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sexuality

message: This article is discussed on The Register Andy Mabbett 16:01, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion on the Register

message: I have classified this article as a start consistent with the LGBT classification . It covers his life and career comprehensively but the sourcing needs more work. Capitalistroadster 09:27, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Start classification

message: Can't somebody find a better brighter more cheerful and more recent picture for this article? The current one is too dark and gloomy and I'm sure George himself would have loathed it. Maybe one in one of the colourful hats and suits that became his trademark? thanks Peter morrell 17:04, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: On viewing the article on George, an old acquaintance of mine, I was rather disturbed to see,in the bibliography
section, that the book "Great Lovers" had been credited as his work alone. This was not in fact the case, as
it was as much mine (if not a lot more so) as his; in fact if it had not been for my work (the paintings),
most of which were already in existence long before the book was ever mooted, this book would never have been produced.
These are the facts: in 1980 the late Eric Lister, a Director of the Portal Gallery, a gallery with which I was then associated, came up with the idea of a book of my series of "Great Lovers" paintings (I had originally
started this series back in the mid-70s while living in Italy). He approached the publishers Jonathan Cape,
and his friend George Melly to do the text, and publication was agreed. Melly agreed to do the text provided
I did all the research on the subjects. This I did, and he, as an experienced writer, knocked it all into shape. He willingly acknowledged the part I had played by agreeing (suggesting actually) that my name appear above his
on the book, and that I should receive 60% of the royalties as against his 40. He afterward said, in a radio
interview (George was a very kind and generous man) that ".....Walter Dorin provided me with great wodges of
material, many hundreds of pages, and all I had to do was boil them down to a manageable length, and put in a few of my own ideas about the subjects......"
The books are still advertised for sale on Google, by Amazon, and various used boosellers, in this country,
the USA and Canada, and Europe. The title of the book is always given as by "Walter Dorin and George Melly"
(on the US as well as the British edition). Were George still around today I know he would be only to willing
to confirm the above.
Now I am not for one moment asking for this title to be deleted from the bibliography, I would not want that.
Just that some acknowledgement be made of my "co-authorship", maybe in brackets after the title, " in
collaboration with.....*, or whatever, etc. I do think I deserve at least some small credit for what was
mainly my work way back in the '80s.
                             Pianopiano (talk) 18:06, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  bibliography detail not QUITE correct 

message: Should we mention where the track "Old Codger" appeared ? (I think it was b-side to "Walk On By". -- Beardo (talk) 12:32, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stranglers 

message: There are two dates of birth in this article: 1921 and 1926. Which is right?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.252.220.107 (talk) 20:14, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age? 

message: I've attempted to compile, mainly from sources on the web, but also from my own collection a pretty detailed discography for GM. There are most likely to be some other compilations made in the "microgroove" era, and single tracks spread around on multi-artist compilations. 86.181.32.27 (talk) 10:48, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discography 

message: The link is not - as you would surely expect - to the navy uniform, but to the fore-and-aft rig on sailing ships, so it doesn't tell us how the uniform differs from the bell-bottom uniform Melly craved, why it was 'dreaded', or anything else of relevance to this article. The 'fore-and-aft' article makes no reference whatever to uniforms, and there isn't a disambiguation page. Since the name of the uniform is a purely English pun, consulting other language versions of the 'fore-and-aft' article surely won't help - I've glanced at the German version, but it's a totally different term. Links that take you to the wrong place are an all too common failing on Wikipedia. How I wish links could be checked by a human editor before they're created!213.127.210.95 (talk) 16:05, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing this out. I've removed the link from "fore-and-aft".  Qwfp (talk) 16:17, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fore-and-aft