Talk:Richard Clayderman

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Contents 1 TERRIBLE 2 NEW! 3 ALPHABETICAL OR CHRONOLOGICAL ? 4 Recent additions 5 Trivia 6 Removed sections from this talk page 7 Bill Bailey 8 WikiProject class rating

[edit] TERRIBLE

"Richard Clayderman (born 28 December 1954) is a true virtuoso pianist who has released numerous albums, including his renditions of some of the works of composers like Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin and Mozart. He is also known for his symphonical rendition of many modern songs including Yesterday, The Sound of Silence and Memory."

Richard Clayderman, first of all, is far from being a virtuoso. Whoever wrote that is completely wrong and knows NOTHING about piano or pianists. His renditions from composers are, at least, spoiled and watered-down. His technique is terrible.

"Born Philippe Pagès in Paris to a piano teacher, Clayderman started studying at a conservatory at 12. He has done more for popularising the piano since Beethoven and is widely regarded as the father of contemporary piano. Clayderman is the most successful instrumental artist the world has ever seen and holds the record of performing 200 concerts in 250 days."

Clayderman is not even the most succesful pianist. Probably he is the only pianist know by the idiot who wrote this arcticle. Ever heard about Martha Argerich, Sviatoslav Richter or Vladmir Horowitz, my friend?

FATHER OF CONTEMPORARY PIANO? When? How? The person who wrote this arcticle knows nothing about piano, pianists or classical (piano) music or jazz (piano) music. The arcticle contains misleading information provenient from a person completely uninformed about music. User:200.158.157.76

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Being the duty of wikipedia to inform correctly, I have edited this arcticle in order to provide correct information about his life and skills. 200.158.156.233

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I have removed your criticism from the article. Next time provide the sources from such criticisms, otherwise they likely represent nothing more than your biased opinion.

[edit] NEW!

I have removed the "NEW!" form seveal titels. IF this is wrong please replace them, nad categorise under N. Rich Farmbrough 08:24, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ALPHABETICAL OR CHRONOLOGICAL ?

Wouldn't it be more informative if the discography had been chronological rather than alphabetical?

[edit] Recent additions

I think most of the recent additions are good and balance out the article. The only addition I don't like is the Google Trends results - they are biased towards countries with good internet access and using them to make any conclusions violates Wikipedia's [[WP:NOR|no original research] policy. Therefore, I'll remove them - but apart from that, good work! Graham87 04:28, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

Clayderman appears on an advert of Renault Megane GT. What I don't know is if this ad is only shown in Spain. The advert sings a song with the melody of "Never Ending Story" and says "cylists that distract and Richard Clayderman in the piano without control".--Nauki 12:56, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed sections from this talk page

I have removed all opinion from this talk page that is not related to the article per talk page guidelines, and some of it per the biography of living people policy because it was very strongly worded. This talk page is for improving the article, not for opinions about the subject. The opinionated messages can be found in the page history. Graham87 00:06, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bill Bailey

I rather think that Bill Bailey's song "Richard Clayderman Plays Three Blind Mice" is a spoof of his style, rather than an actual arrangement by Richard Clayderman. Particularly as "Tom Waits Plays Three Blind Mice" and "Phillip Glass Plays Pop Goes The Weasel" are on the same album. Halften 12:45, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 07:58, 27 August 2007 (UTC)