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534:"While promoting his then-upcoming album Black Tie White Noise in February 1993, David Bowie spoke with British novelist Hanif Kureishi for Interview magazine, who sought permission to use some of Bowie's older material for an upcoming adaptation of Kureishi's 1990 novel The Buddha of Suburbia." - suggest better as two sentences: While promoting his then-upcoming album Black Tie White Noise in February 1993, David Bowie spoke with British novelist Hanif Kureishi for Interview magazine. 357: 347: 334: 321: 308: 298: 280: 266: 252: 238: 225: 212: 375: 42: 633:
however i do think for example: "The album doesn't find Bowie diverging from anything he'd done before and feels like another middling entry in the midst of a decade where he would put out some of his most disappointing work," concluding "this record doesn't have much to offer to anyone who isn't a
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Thanks for an interesting read, the sources have certainly been consulted for this article. I'll put it on hold for seven days for the comments below to be addressed, please drop me a line when you are done or if something needs clarifying.
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Nice one, this is basically a GA now, I just wouldn't mind a response on renaming the song article and on commas. The commas shouldn't hold up anything for too long though. Cheers
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I'm noting sometimes sentences end ." and sometimes ". so that should be made consistent, ". seems better to me, easily resolved by keyword search
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Unfortunately it's not giving me access to that at the moment. From what I recall looking at it months ago I don't think they mentioned much. โ€“
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on the song should be called 'Buddha of Suburbia (song)' not 'The Buddha of Suburbia (song)' right? If you agree, I'll change it.
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It's weird because on the album there is no 'the' but on the single's sleeve there is. So Idk who to believe. โ€“
817:"The title track was written" - may as well name it eg The title track "Buddha of Suburbia" was written 975:"Some reviewers labeled it" - since we are Br Eng, labeled is acceptable but labelled is more normal 1088: 1070: 1037: 906: 884: 866: 844: 803: 774: 735: 714: 689: 668: 643: 621: 460: 442: 424: 401: 183: 160: 1050:
gave one star out of five it would be worth mentioning or quoting part of that review in the text
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sought permission to use some of Bowie's older material for an upcoming adaptation of
989:"believing it is "worth a listen" among Bowie's fans" - suggest cutting or rephrasing 341: 219: 192: 1080: 876: 836: 727: 698: 681: 652: 635: 452: 434: 408: 393: 328: 274: 260: 246: 175: 146: 680:
brilliant, do you mind checking any other instances of ." then we really are done
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Oops. When you do these sections out of order sometimes you miss these things. โ€“
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ooh thanks for that, i might have advised someone else wrongly earlier today, eek
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Yeah Pegg doesn't use 'the' but O'Leary does so it's very inconsistent โ€“
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That Bowie said it was his fave album in 2003 is worth mentioning here
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Thanks for the quick review and the kind words! Responses belowย :-) โ€“
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die-hard fan." should have the last full stop outside the apostrophe
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haha excellent then we are done and congrats on the good article
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Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the
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Track listing ok, Personnel ok , Notes ok, Refs ok, Sources ok
923:"The title is an amalgamation of Hanif Kureishi" - anagram? 1003:"Bowie's others 1990s works" - Bowie's other 1990s works 134: 103: 956:"remained obscure again until" - suggest remove again 451:I salute the attention to detail, making this a GA 1017:first mention of Perone so can be James E. Perone 761:I can never spell that goddamn word right lol โ€“ 578:the album or "The Buddha of Suburbia" the track? 8: 510:"It wasn't released" - It was not released 30: 480:earwig throws up nothing to worry about 61: 33: 790:He really did. Truly one of a kind โ€“ 7: 197: 174:. I vaguely remember the TV series 18:Talk:The Buddha of Suburbia (album) 542:1990 novel The Buddha of Suburbia. 24: 1079:fairplay thanks for the attempt 373: 355: 345: 332: 319: 306: 296: 278: 264: 250: 236: 223: 210: 754:"noted the precense" presence? 875:Oho! 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