Talk:Telstar (song)
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[edit] Margaret Thatcher
Formidable politician she might be, but Margaret Thatcher is not noted for her taste in music. An earlier Conservative Prime Minister, Edward Heath, was a keen musician and if he had expressed a liking for Telstar it might just have been worthy of mention. In his own article, perhaps. But if we start putting stuff like "Richard Nixon enjoyed Pinky and Perky" and "Harold Wilson once bought a copy of Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze during a walking holiday on the Isle of Wight" into our articles we might as well give up trying to be an encyclopedia, because we will have become a trivia site. --Tony Sidaway 10:34, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
- I am not an expert on the good or bad musical taste of British Prime Ministers, and it is too subjective for Wikipedia anyway. The Margaret Thatcher reference in the article (which was not originally added by me) seems to have come about because she referred to the song in public on several occasions. As mentioned, she chose it for Desert Island Discs. She was also interviewed on camera for the 1991 BBC Arena documentary The Strange Story of Joe Meek (written by John Repsch, Meek's official biographer), in which she describes it as "a marvellous tune, full of life". She also wrote to one of the Tornados, Roger LaVern, saying how much she enjoyed the record. [1] I am as much against trivia sections as the next person, but do not think that all of this put together is trivia. I may re-add the Thatcher link with a bit more detail. --♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 22:21, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
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