Talk:Eddie Clarke (musician)

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Was Eddie really born in the same town as Lemmy? Please verify fact. - Roda, 22:17, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

nope, totally my mistake, think it was Twickenham as fasteddie.com says that was his hometown, taken it out for now. Alf 21:40, 15 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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I have first hand knowledge of this location in London at the time mentioned and I think this is incorrect - it's is being confused with the location Motorhead first practiced, Sound Management. As far as I'm aware, there was no rehearsal studio on the corner of Kings Road, Chelsea around 1975/1976 called "Snobs Rehearsal Studio". There was "Sound Management" which used a basement accessible from Kings Road near the corner (and leased from the Furniture Cave), and just around the corner in Lot's Road was "Manos", which used an upper floor leased from the Furniture Cave and where Donovan, Suzie Quatro and other RAK acts practiced. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Indieshack (talk • contribs) 16:15, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The article text mentions: "Clarke was working on re-fitting a houseboat, when he met drummer Phil Taylor,[3] who had recently joined Motörhead and introduced Clarke to Lemmy.". In Lemmy Kilmister's authorized biography, White LIne Fever, ^[1] he states that although both Eddie Clarke and Phil Taylor were working on a boat project, that was just a coincidence. It was actually the receptionist Gertie at the rehearsal studio that Motorhead was then using who introduced Lemmy Kilmister to Clarke, since she was dating Clarke at the time. Indieshack (talk) 06:36, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, feel free to change the article accordingly, @IndieShack. Lemmy's own published recollection of how they met is likely to be a more reliable source for how they met than The Guardian obituary currently cited. JezGrove (talk) 19:30, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I just looked back, and it was me who added the current reference to the story of how they met - I was just adding a newly published source to a claim that didn't already have one. Your source is better, so feel free to reword the article and to replace the citation I used in good faith back then with your own reference to Lemmy's biography. JezGrove (talk) 19:49, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

OK thanks, will do - please review my changes. Indieshack (talk) 17:37, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]