Talk:Renaissance (band)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.	Biography Portal
Stub	This article has been rated as stub-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ]
	This article is supported by WikiProject Musicians, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed biographical guide to musicians and musical groups on Wikipedia.

An appropriate infobox may need to be added to this article, or the current infobox may need to be updated. Please refer to the list of biography infoboxes for further information.

Any muso's fancy casting an NPOV eye over this article??? quercus robur 23:57 14 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Isn't this article better titled Renaissance (band)? Wshun

Yup - that's what seems to be done with other articles (Can (band) and Faust (band), for example). I'll move it. --Camembert 00:24 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)

There's a lot of POV stuff in this article. Needs a fairly heavy edit to remove bias. -- Lee M (Renaissance fan)

Re the original band: their first album was on Island in UK, not Elektra, and the second was only released in Germany. Re the second line-up, the original guitarist was Mick Parsons who died in a car crash the day before Prologue was recorded. Note also that very many musicians passed through in the early days. Incidentally, Annie Haslam has said that she never regarded Renaissance as a rock band. The (almost) original line-up reformed as Illusion, and released two albums. Sbz5809 12:29, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

"However, Renaissance's live performances were normally faithful reproductions of the studio recordings, and this was not taken well by fans.", that's quite an odd statement. Where is the proof that this hasn't been taken well by fans? - since this is typical behaviour for a progressive rock band at the time and is something that can hardly be an obvious reason for why their concerts were apparently not 'taken well by fans.'

Agreed, and I took it upon myself to remove that assertion. That statement is the sole reason I checked this discussion, because it stuck out like a sore thumb as I was reading the article, and I figured someone else must have commented on it. The unsourced statement looks quite unprovable, since it's not clear how 'not taken well by fans' can be established as a fact. How many fans didn't approve? 10%? 50%? 75.8574%? It's just someone's opinion, and strays away from a Neutral Point Of View. - 4.246.129.76 04:49, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] classical tunes

I want to add two items to List of popular songs based on classical music: "Cold Is Being" (Adagio for Strings, by Albinoni) and "Going Home" (part of Symphony from the New World, by Dvořák) — but I don't know which album(s) they're on, and thus their dates. (One of them may be on Annie in Wonderland.) Anybody? —Tamfang 22:30, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

"Cold Is Being" is on "Turn of the Cards", and Going Home, according to this, is on Annie Haslam's solo album "Annie in Wonderland". --Yms 08:51, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

thanks; done it. —Tamfang 18:49, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

The opening of "Running Hard" on "Turn of the Cards" is Jehan Alain's "Litanies," a fairly well-known pipe organ piece.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Renren123.jpg

Image:Renren123.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot (talk) 04:21, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Betty Thatcher influence

The main article would be improved if there were a word or two on the band's relationship with Betty Thatcher, and how they got her to write the lyrics to some of their songs.198.177.27.22 (talk) 01:32, 7 April 2008 (UTC)