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Controversy: Greg Lake's Birthday - In my opinion, the most reliable sites (IMDB, All Music Guide, Music.com), give his birthday as 11/10/1947. I was about to change it back, and then I started finding 1948 reports. His website autobiography does not address the issue directly. Most of the visitor postings credit it as 1947, but a few claim 1948.

I'll leave it an open question until I can get a more definitive answer. Catbar (Brian Rock) 11:58, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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As the article cannot be deleted to remove the copyvio revisions due to a technical limitation, the copyvio is just going to have to remain in the history for the time being. -- Cyrius|✎ 03:50, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Prokofiev

That "Father Christmas" musical quote from Prokofiev... is that "Troika" from the Lieutenant Kije suite? -- The Anome 07:29, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

After a bit of clicking around, yes it is: we even have a MIDI available. -- The Anome 07:31, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] facts pleeze

"Lake became further well-known for his Christmas hit, "I Believe in Father Christmas" (Works Volume II) in 1975". It was a hit in 1974 I believe (in the UK at least) as well as in other later years. Also, the way this is phrased almost makes it appear that Works II came out in '75 and this was much later.


"sharing with John Lennon the peculiar role of a rock star who wrote a very popular Xmas tune". Other rock/pop stars have made very popular Xmas tunes inlcuding Slade, McCarney, Rea. The sentence is a bit misguided, PoV and just needs cutting.

Candy 23:55, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pruning

Sorry, I re-read the article and couldn't let it lie. I removed a lot of POV words which just seemed to be gushing about Lake (not that I don't feel that way myself but this is an encyclopaedia). I pruned a graet deal out, rephrased some parts and added basic headers. They need a lot more fleshing out but that's all you'll be getting from me tonight folks!

Candy 00:35, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clean up

Cleaned this up some more. I removed some of the more PoV words where I could. A number of spelling mistakes were corrected (and no doubt a few added ;=) ) as well as gramatical errors. Some parts were deleted such as where there was tautology in the intro. Removed the term Grade School as it is a US term and inapproprate here - he's British dontchaknow! 8) Candy 11:26, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I'll be honest... this is a pretty poorly written article. I've contributed to it before, but it's just a bit of a mess...--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 03:10, 17 February 2007 (UTC)