Talk:Never Let Her Slip Away

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The Freddie Mercury claim is bogus

The claim that Freddie Mercury ever sang background on an Andrew Gold song, credited or uncredited, is an urban myth with no legitimate evidence. The citations that are used in this article and others to "prove" this event happened are nothing more than non-cited, unsourced blurbs themselves, essentially links to pages that have nothing to do with Freddie, Andrew or anyone else connected to them, and simply stating it as a fact with no other evidence otherwise. There is nobody connected with Andrew, Freddie or any of the Andrew Gold production work who have corroborated that it ever happened; in fact, I've found a reliable source from Andrew Gold's people that states that the Freddie Mercury claim is a bogus myth --- it's Andrew's official Facebook fan page at https://www.facebook.com/andrewgoldmusic/posts/urban-legend-in-many-places-on-the-net-is-that-freddie-mercury-did-background-vo/280313182069724/ --- so this is about as official as it can get from Andrew Gold's camp that the Freddie thing is just a myth. Furthremore, Andrew's producer and bandmate Brock Walsh stated that Freddie never sang backup with Andrew or vice-versa, neither live nor in the studio. Check it out here. Brock appeared on the video for "Never Let Her Slip Away" (he looks like he could be a cousin on Gilbert O'Sullivan), and he also produced the album it appeared on. Brock is also on a live video of Andrew's playing keys on "Lonely Boy". Both of these videos are on YouTube here and here. I believe this to a self-prophesying claim that is snowballing its way from fiction to fact simply because it's been said enough times and people want to believe it, but I find no credible evidence that it's true. None of the other sources who claim otherwise have nearly the official credibility of these citations. PhilMaglassup (talk) 17:24, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

That Facebook post doesn't refute anything. The so-called "myth" is that Mercury sang uncredited: the Gold FB page is going by the album credits ("Sometimes there are mistakes in the credits", "I... checked the vinyl insert"). The person handling the page also admits they don't know for sure ("I doubt anyone would have missed Freddie", "If... Freddie snuck in the studio").

Anyway, you already started a discussion about this here, so let's keep it over there. Micky Moats (talk) 21:06, 23 June 2019 (UTC)