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I had to expound on the "style" section. Many SC writeups talk about his pop-n'-slap to the exclusion of anything else, which never made any sense to me because that style is really not all that prevalent in his recorded output (when it is, though, look out!)

[edit] Scientology

In the sleeve of his School Days album, he gives special thanks to L. Ron Hubbard with the words "for being an inspiration to me". Should we include this in the article, and assume he is a follower of Scientology? - Wikigeek at gmail, 20/9 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.62.106.234 (talk) 13:48, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Style

My, my. Here we go with the famous WikiPedia hyperbole concerning music and musicians. The statement that Clarke (of whom I am a great fan, btw) is "equally ferocious on acoustic (meaning "upright") and electric bass" is a matter of opinion only. I will tell you for a fact that if you consult a number of upright bassists, a good number of them will tell you that Clarke's upright tone is considered lacking, to say the least.

Perhaps it is, perhaps it isn't. That's a matter of opinion. Which brings me to my point: too often in music/musician articles, opinion is stated as fact. I suggest that this entire section labelled "style" is nothing but an expression of opinion by the writer, and doesn't belong in a WikiPedia article.

In fact, about two-thirds of the article reads as it it were penned by his publicist. B. Polhemus (talk) 20:52, 10 April 2008 (UTC)