Talk:Herbert Grönemeyer

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Contents 1 Expanding this article 2 O-umlaut spelling 3 "Thick accent"? Ouch! 4 Lack of important information

[edit] Expanding this article

I'm going to translate the German Wikipedia article into English to give this article a rough expansion. Let me know if things aren't going well. Feralcats 19:07, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] O-umlaut spelling

We've got the standard O-umlaut thing that says "The title of this article contains the character ö. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Herbert Groenemeyer." In the light of that, it seems especially odd that the article's spelling keeps bouncing between the two. Can't it just settle on Grönemeyer, given that the note gives people the get-out if they can't do "ö"? love, 138.37.199.206 08:46, 18 September 2007 (UTC) (with the dreadful yet strangely addictive "Dance Chaos" hammering away in the background).

[edit] "Thick accent"? Ouch!

I know it is not meant offensively but this comes over as a bit judgemental, POV and Anglocentric:

"The three re-recorded albums "What's all this", "Luxus" and "Chaos" for the English-speaking market featured a thick accent and were met with limited sales success."

I am not wild about Herbie singing in Englisch either, but for other reasons, and I am not sure that the above version is really very enyclopaedic. I am going to change it, and will look for changes back or discussion if you think this was wrong. Tschüss! 138.37.199.206 08:50, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lack of important information

This article suffer from the typical disease of wikipedia biographies - there are not enough information about his work. If he recorded the album, the style and specificities of the album should be described. Ono should be able to recognize whether he is interested in the works of the author or not. Is it jazz, free jazz, instrumental jazz, new age, uptempo, sax dominated, bossa nova, mixed, what? The fact whether work was popular is important, but less important than work itself. --78.1.127.135 (talk) 22:36, 11 January 2008 (UTC)