Talk:Bennie and the Jets

message: I don't know how to add this to the article correctly, but the Beastie Boys do a satirical cover of Benny and the Jets. It's on the second disc of the album "The Sounds of Science."
The Song is called "Benny and the Jets" not "Bennie and the Jets"
:You're quite correct — the title is "Benny..." so I've switched the Elton John article to appear under the correct title. Mrstonky 03:54, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
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message: In the Covers section, aren't the Beastie Boys' version and Biz Markie version referring to the same song? --Denise from the Cosby Show (talk) 04:19, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  covers 

message: The inclusion of "27 Dresses" and "The Office" are kind of silly. If we included every movie/television show that had characters singing the song or a parody of it, the page would be nearly endless..
Sepponearth (talk) 09:58, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  References in Pop Culture 

message: There was once an Australian band called Benny and the Jets, obviously named after this song. They released some singles, an album called 'Hey Rock & Roll' and were in existence in the late Nineteen-Seventies. Does anyone have any information about them? (They weren't the only one in the world, surely?) Eligius (talk) 07:28, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  An Actual Band Called Benny and the Jets 

message: Although the article makes no mention of it, I note that, according to the Guinness book of British Hit Singles, Bennie & the Jets didn't chart in the UK until 1976 & then only reached no. 37 - & this in the wake of having topped the UK singles chart for the first time! Gwladys24 (talk) 21:49, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK chart performance. 

message: I was under the impression that the name of the song was a Drug reference, namely Benzedrine.(Morcus (talk) 01:50, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps you were taking this drug when you posted?  Seriously, we discuss RS here to improve the articles.50.111.45.222 (talk) 08:08, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drug references 

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message: I removed the influences section. It's a bit overkill. The one entry in it was about Axl Rose claiming the importance of the song 
in his decision to become a rock'n'roller. Well, the citation did not support this, but the video of his introduction of Elton John when he was inducted in the Hall of Fame does mention the song. But I still think it doesn't need to be here. Paulmlieberman (talk) 20:07, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Influences section 

message: Is this whole section in existence just because of the 27 Dresses scene? I imagine the first ref is just a website of mondegreens that itself only exists because of aforementioned film. Merge with a popular culture section? 2A02:C7F:2C68:D500:8C74:2A7:1F9A:8B5F (talk) 14:00, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
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