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I'm fairly sure the correct name is 'Shakespears Sister', with no punctuation - that's how the albums were credited at the time. As it's a moot point and not too significant, I'll set up a redirect rather than moving the page. (Reason: I couldn't find this article). --kingboyk 02:45, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Why the following mention - "The term Shakespeare's Sister first appeared in a section of the Virginia Woolf work......"? The title of this article does not have a third letter e in Shakespear, but the Woolf work does. There is no explanation why or if the Woolf work influenced the band name. Moriori 02:55, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
The story I heard behind the spelling of the name was that they were going to be called "Shakespeare's Sister", but that the person designing their logo misspelled the name, and they decided to leave it that way (particularly as the spelling of the name wasn't standardised in Shakespear's (sic ;)) day). Better to confirm that fact before including in the article though. Fourohfour 16:21, 23 December 2005 (UTC)


The correct spelling is Shakespears Sister, they took the name from The Smiths song "Shakespeare's Sister" and changed around the spelling to distinguish themselves from the songPaul75 21:06, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

FYI this page was moved incorrectly... looks like a cut & paste job and a redirect created instead of the "move" function... This breaks up the edit history, which is not the correct way to do this.... -- eo 11:53, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
While reading the introductory text of the 'Best Of' DVD (released in 2004), I noticed that SF mentions the name of the group three times, each time consistently as 'Shakespear's Sister'. The cover of the DVD also uses the same spelling. The same is true for the last page of the booklet (credits). Only once (center of the booklet) the apostrophe is missing. So, does anyone care to tell SF that she is ... err ... 'wrong' ? J Kahrs 23:22, 24 December 2006 (UTC).


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[edit] No mention of Marcella Detroit?

Nowhere in this article is she mentioned, even though she was the other member of the duo known as Shakespears Sister. There is however a biography of Marcella Detroit already in wiki. Someone with alot more talent than myself should re-word the Shakespears Sister article to reflect this, and also link it to wiki on Marcella Detroit.

Interesting. The article previously mentioned both women but somewhere along the line an editor must have taken Marcella completely out for some strange reason. I've added Marcella links back to the article. -- eo 11:58, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] not referencing woolfe, but williams

actually refers to Tennesse Williams play "The Glass Menagerie"

[edit] recurrent themes

Hello, I just bought and listened to the new "Best Of" DVD. When listening to all these songs in retrospect, I was a bit shocked by the lyrics and their recurrent themes. Especially the two hit songs "Stay" and "Hello" are obviously focused on death and dying. These lyrics must have been written by a person who is obsessed by the process of "fading away". The mental dynamics of a fading consciousness is hidden behind a wall of blindingly beautiful images and sounds. Could anyone with a broader knowledge of the lyrics add a section "recurrent themes" ? J Kahrs 11:32, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greetings from Germany

Whatever gave the author the idea to say the video for "Stay" was banned in Germany because of superstitious elements or praising witchcraft? I did't notice that. I am from Germany. I was 15 when it came out and don't remember anything about such problems, the video was running endlessly on german tv and was popular just like any other. Anyway have a nice day Satian —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.228.75.124 (talk) 18:06, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

True. I deleted that sentence.