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Christian record labels of the time. Indeed, it was the foresight of individuals such as Simon Law, setting up his own record label (Plankton), to address this that saw the 1st exposure of this sort of music. For this reason you are unlikely to be able to corroborate its significance though mainstream
Christian media of the time. We were ignored by it. As a member of the band for several years I can attest to this. Sorry if Iâve not understood the process here but can provide further details as needed.
456:(and their side projects) a full page of coverage, and they have an article here. Ian Smale and his side projects gets a half page, but also mentions in one other article, while Andy McCarroll gets a quarter page, and neither have an article here. The book does not mention "Really Free" once. So you can see the dilemma. If you could supply the sources that discuss them, that would help us to save their article.
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sources, then we could feel confident that the content that is displayed in the article is correct, but also that the band was worth being written about. For example, there are several contemporaries in
California that were written about and many that were not. We try to have articles about the ones that were written about. For instance,
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The reason is that while they were a pioneer of the genre in the UK, we cannot find anything that is written about them in reliable sources. If you could provide significant written content, in sources that are reliable like books, magazines, periodicals or newpapers, but not blogs or self-published
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Malcolm & Alwyn do play acoustic and folk while Ian Smale has played a wide variety of music. Wild's music in the early 80s was certainly rock while Wall's solo music was not middle of the road either. The point, however, is not what they play but whether they are or are not recognized (as we
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Christian songs on what were the main Christian record labels of the time. Hence being recorded in publications such as you cite. Really Free were, in the UK, the first Rock Band playing Christian music and were of no interest to the
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Great band name, but they are not notable. The sourcing isn't worth crap - discogs is not a reliable source, and the other two sites aren't even about the band. The simple name also makes searching difficult, so I searched with the albums and I couldn't find anything that establishes notability.
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are covered in great detail). If you can find any reliable sources that discuss them, and even one, that would help. It does not have to be online. It can be in-print. It would be even better if it were to state that they were instrumental in helping later
Christian rock bands. Without reliable
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That does not make sense. Blackham was not a prominent member listed as only having been with them for a year at most, and the problem with the article is lack of reliable sourcing. I'm not sure what is left after the poor-quality content is removed.
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Thank you. They're all passing mentions of the band or incidental. Knowledge (XXG) needs significant coverage of the band itself that is supplied in reliable sources that are independent of the subject.
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