Talk:P. F. Sloan

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[edit] Name change

According to Scott Bernarde's book "Jews Who Rock", Sloan's family had changed their last name from Schlein to Sloan after the family moved to California when he was in his teens. Due to strong anti-semitism in the business community at that time. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.126.127.5 (talk • contribs) 22 October 2005.

Which fits with my assumption that he is Jewish. So why the heck is he in Category:Romanian-Americans and Category:Romanian American musicians, but not in any Jewish-related categories? - Jmabel | Talk 05:25, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mental health issues

No one seems to mention P.F. Sloan's mental issues. In an interview with Paul Zollo, author of Songwriters on Songwriting, Sloan mentions that after his minor success in Japan, his label essentially told him to "get lost" and he decided to seek mental help. He alludes to having been committed to an asylum, saying that he was "forced" to play a broken piano in a padded room with psychedelic paint on the walls. As well, he refers to "P.F. Sloan" in the third person throughout the interview, as if he is a different person. (Deepcloud 23:30, 10 January 2006 (UTC))

• Sloan recently gave an interview to the Los Angeles Times to promote his new album; in that interview he acknowledged that he'd experienced mental health issues for a number of years [1]. When I get a few free minutes I'll update the Wikipedia article. -- Engineer Bob 20:16, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Tale of Two Unicorns

There was a reference on the PF Sloan page to a version of the Jimmy Webb song as recorded by a band called Unicorn. It appeared to refer to a fictional band - a device to promote the release of a newly-recorded (2005) album ith the fictional back story that it is supposedly a long-lost classic by a forgotten L.A. band from the 1960s. The reference on the page did not make that clear.

Where it gets confusing is that the song "PF Sloan" WAS actually recorded by a band called Unicorn! But it was a British band in the early 1970s. There does not appear to be anything yet on wikipedia about the real British band named Unicorn. Undoubtedly there will be at some point as the band was at one point produced by Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour.

I'm guessing that someone who knew about there being a British band called Unicorn that had covered P. F. Sloan wanted to reference that info - and it got merged with the article about the fictional band. Davidpatrick 09:23, 25 August 2006 (UTC)