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Missing any info about Metallica collaboration

At least the sentence "She provided backing vocals on the Metallica song 'The Memory Remains' which released in 1997" should be somewhere on the page. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Memory_Remains 209.203.197.27 (talk) 10:21, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

One of the leading female artists of the British Invasion in the United States?

"One of the leading female artists of the British Invasion in the United States" is in the lead and not the body, unsourced and IMO misleading. This was recently edited from a slightly less problematic version which did not imply that she was huge in the US at that time. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 17:06, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

Citation 10 is behind a paywall. On the website of pseudo fascist newspaper 45.141.132.104 (talk) 00:53, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There's a website I use that cleans pop-ups and therefore skips paywalls, though I'm not sure per Wikipedia's policy on WP:COPYVIO that I can share it. By the way, this is WP:NOTFORUM, especially not for other topics. This is not the place to cope and seethe over the perceived political orientation of a source that was only there to say what school she went to. And yes, I would say the same if someone raged over a banal Guardian reference as a "globalist soyboy cuck newspaper". Unknown Temptation (talk) 17:45, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mars bar - interesting omission

In the whole article, there is only one mention of "Mars", as an external link in which "she specifically denies the notorious Mars Bar incident". However, the article never says what this incident was, which would confuse the uninitiated.

We all know the story was false but it's mentioned in all obituaries. It came alongside the drug bust and contributed to her loss of reputation, which she commented on for over half a century afterwards. See this 2004 source that has Mars in the title even, such is the notoriety: [1] "Marianne Faithfull's 40-year career has been dogged by tales of sex, drugs and 'that bloody Mars bar'." To completely omit this story is like writing about Freddie Starr and not including the hamster.

In short, tabloid sources are junk, but tabloid stories have real-life consequences that are reported by reliable sources for decades to come. Unknown Temptation (talk) 17:42, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]