Talk:Tommy Steele

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Contents 1 Fan mail 2 Fair use rationale for Image:TommySteele.jpg 3 Gyre and Gimble 4 Skiffle band 5 Silly London visit claims

[edit] Fan mail

i dont know what this page is about exactly but i am a fan of tommy steele's and have been for so long i cant remember the first time i fell in love with him. i think i was 6 and my grandma and i watched finian's rainbow i fell in love with the leprechaun charicter played by tommy steele and sfter that i learned a lot more about him and fell more in love with him i know its odd to be so young and in love with older movies they are no more thease days but i'm 22 years old and i just cant get enough and so if tommy him self ever sees this i am young and still in love with your work were ever you are

                            your fan
                                janae236@yahoo.com

I have put the cleanup flag as large parts of this article are written in a decided non-encyclopedic style. PatGallacher 17:20, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Cleaned up the page, rewriting much of the text and adding several sources of information. Mary Read 23:28, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:TommySteele.jpg

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[edit] Gyre and Gimble

Tommy Steele was not discovered at the G&G, The Vipers Skiffle Group were. They went on to play at the 2i's, where Steele sometimes played with them, not at the Gyre and Gimble. He was discovered by Larry Parnes. Vera, Chuck & Dave 22:39, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Skiffle band

Steele & The Steelmen were not a "Skiffle Band" they were the first British "Rock n Roll Band". Does this, thier first hit, "Rock With The Caveman" sound anything like Skiffle? [1] Educated Guest (talk) 16:22, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Silly London visit claims

Whatever you think about the idea that he visited, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7376248.stm tells us that Fike didn't visit London instead of Elvis. 129.31.1.137 (talk) 13:10, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Well if you check the relevant site, Fike has indeed posted a claim that it was him and not Elvis. As for The Kenwright/Steele claim, all I can say is that Tommy Steele is renowned for playing very elaborate practical jokes, but making "Silly Claims" - most certainly not, and from what I can gather, he is very angry with Kenwright. Cheers, Pat Pending (talk) 15:55, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

I couldn't find a mention of Fike's visit to London on that site, could you provide a link that is straight from the horse's mouth and more reliable that the BBC? And as human beings excercising common sense, we'd have to say the idea that the most famous person in the world visited London, wandered around the parts of the city most flooded with tourists, accompanied by another famous person and was neither mobbed by adoring fans or noticed by a single other person is pretty silly. As wikipedians, it's enough that it's verifiable, right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.31.1.137 (talk) 14:53, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

I've checked and Fike's post appears to have been taken down, so by all means replace it with the BBC one. One thing to bear in mind when considering Steele's claim, is that London was not flooded with tourists in 1958, it was however, flooded with City Gents, Stockbrokers etc and not ordinary people. The "type of person" in the areas mentioned, would not have been able to pull Steele out of a line up, let alone Elvis - It's not like he's saying he took him down the pub and Pie and Mash shop in Bermondsey, or The 2i's where of course, they most certainly would as you say, have been mobbed. Cheers, Pat Pending (talk) 15:42, 2 May 2008 (UTC)