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Serial Number 54129, Hello again. Impressive work! Questions: "Clayson suggests that Easton's and Oldham's dismissal was as a result of a "divide and conquer" tactic by Klein" doesn't quite make sense to me, since there is no other mention of Oldham's dismissal in this article. Also, I checked cite 1 since I was curious if you had found a cite for 1995, but page 63 in that book is only about the Beatles.
Gråbergs Gråa Sång (
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20:35, 4 March 2020 (UTC)reply
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Gråbergs Gråa Sång: good point. Yeah, Oldham bought it over two years later, so it's not really relevant to Easton. I've trimmed it to relate to Easton only and relegated Oldham's subsequent career/sacking to a footnote.
——SN5412913:47, 6 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Case: The other Eric Easton doesn't have an article or even a redirect, and is only reffed (well not actually reffed) to his employer in the wikilinked article.
Gråbergs Gråa Sång (
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11:05, 6 March 2020 (UTC)reply
About your edits today. I don't think any of them are wrong, but as I said at your talkpage, on WP you knowing it is not enough, here we need a
WP:RS as defined by WP. If you can't source it, don't add it. If you wan't to write in another way, write a book or a blog. This article is surprisingly decent, WP-wise, and your additions are not improvements without good sources.
Gråbergs Gråa Sång (
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19:03, 10 March 2020 (UTC)reply
T Boy Jackson (
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19:35, 10 March 2020 (UTC) I verified the birth and death dates and the place of death by a genealogy site, which I included in a previous post. Notice that I did not include any of the stuff that Paul Easton told me that I could not verify, such as Eric Easton's birth name. I am trying to be a good boy. I know that researchers like myself want dates and places. But I am thrilled with what you did! I didn't mean to step on toes.reply
What genealogy site? You didn't cite anything. And I have no idea what Paul Easton told you, not that it matters, unless he told you "Here is Eric Eastons obituary from Collier County Times!" (I made up the paper).
Gråbergs Gråa Sång (
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20:00, 10 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Dad was born Eric Catlow Huden and changed his name to Easton for professional purposes when he was a performing musician. He came from a little town called Rishton in Lancashire, close to Blackburn, Preston, Burnley and, most notably, Blackpool. His Mum died when he was a boy. When Dad was about 14 he was hired to play the theatre organ at the Tower Ballroom in Blackpool. That was during the war, when the majority of the men were overseas fighting. Without getting in too deep, that experience led him to eventually move to London where he started a theatrical agency booking variety entertainers around the country. Somewhere on that journey he had a couple of different enterprises, including renting Hammond organs to theatres, holiday camps and other live entertainment venues.
I am not sure where Lionel got the notion that dad was Jewish. His dad was Protestant, an Orange Man. At best he was Church of England (C of E) although we weren’t a good church going family! Funny, really, because most of his extended family in the north of England did have very strong ties to the church.
It was when he and Mum (Mary) married that Dad decided to venture in to the agency business. He was never too comfortable with the performing side of things although he and Mum used to produce summer shows around the country, mostly for seaside resort towns like Bridlington, Scarborough, etc. This was all in the days prior to rock and roll…the 1950s.
Eventually he opened an office in London and slowly transitioned to management, with at least one or two guys working with him as agents for the client roster. I remember BoB Knight being one of the agents. You referenced some of the artists he represented, including Bert Weedon, Julie Grant, radio host and compere Brian Matthew and a number of others. Mrs. Mills was one of his long-standing clients. She continues to sell records around the world even though she passed away in 1978.
Somewhere along the way he did end up with Dave Clark Five as a client but when he got the Stones he passed those guys on to Tito Burns. The Stones were a full time project!
Dad actually was the business guy behind the Stones. Andrew handled press and PR, that was the arrangement the two of them had. Unfortunately Andrew liked press and PR as much for himself as he did the band. He was erratic and inconsistent at best, disappearing for days and weeks on end. That was actually how Dad ended up producing some of the early recordings, simply because Andrew had gone missing! I can enlighten you on much of that history if it is of interest.
In the 70s Dad still managed Mrs. Mills (on EMI Records) although he had sold his office in London and was working from home. He had become involved in real estate development and a couple of other businesses. The toy store started out as something for Mum to do…Jane and I were in school and Mum wanted a project. They bought a card and gift shop in West Drayton, turned it in to a toy store and then opened another store in Slough. Lots of stories about those days!
As a family, we started visiting the States in 70s, the first trip I recall being 1976. A big year for America! A couple of years later Mum and Dad bought a holiday place in Naples and then finally decided in 1980 to emigrate. By then Jane was already living over here and I came along with them. Dad bought a business to satisfy immigration requirements and then they settled in to the Florida lifestyle.
Dad passed away on September 13, 1995, as you note. He was only 67…he died of cancer.
He didn’t have much contact with the Stones in later years although Bill did write to him a couple of times. On the Steel Wheels tour the band made Naples their base for the southern leg of the tour and we ended up having dinner with Bill at the Ritz Carlton. Ronnie came by to say hi. Dad went up ahead of us and met with Mick and Keith…the first time they had spoken in many, many years. There were no lawyers present that time around! Anyway, it was nice to hear Bill tell Dad they never knew what they had until they parted company. He regretted them letting Dad go. Financially it was a very bad decision and he said Mick would never admit it but it was a very sore point for him.
About the links you provided. From the WP-view, nothing in them makes it clear that this is the EE we are writing about (though it probably is), telling our readers that's the fact is what WP calls
WP:ORIGINAL RESEARCH and so shouldn't be included. You need a
WP:RS, and if there is none, we shouldn't include it. By "it" I mean the exact dates, Florida and died of cancer. Again, I'm assuming it's correct, but sources matter.
Gråbergs Gråa Sång (
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11:23, 11 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Yeah, have to agree with Gråbergs Gråa Sång I'm afraid. This is all really interesting stuff, but it's tragic we can't source it. E.g., I googled his birth name, but nothing comes up (not necessarily surprising for anyone born so far pre-internet of course). I wonder if his wife (maiden name?) or that toy store is sourceable? Who's Jane? I've got a source for Bill Easton, but while I assume Eric Jr (baseball player) is a connection, I can't source it. I can source the plain facts of the Naples 1989 meeting. But, both the pre- and-post Stones periods are pretty sparse in the old reliable sources, sadly.
——SN5412911:42, 11 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Serial Number 54129, Something missing here: "His partnership with them, though, says Easton, because the group thought him to be concentrating too much on the Stones and not enough on them.[143][65]" Fell through, ended or something like that perhaps.
Gråbergs Gråa Sång (
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14:48, 12 March 2020 (UTC)reply
More nagging: Lead: opened several businesses. Personal life: There he opened Easton's Music Centre[73]—trading in pianos and organs—and a real estate business. I still think my version was better.
Gråbergs Gråa Sång (
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19:16, 12 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Not nagging. Disagree: where he kept working implies, I think, that he remained in the same industry, i.e., kept up the same work. Whereas he opened several businesses indicates there was a slight difference.
——SN5412919:21, 12 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Right then,
54129, let's see what we can make of this one...! Red pen out and ready for a review - should be with it properly later today or early tomorrow... -
SchroCat (
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09:40, 8 June 2020 (UTC)reply
Gråbergs Gråa Sång,
SN, there are a fair few outstanding points on the review. There isn't too much rush, but I'd like to close this off sooner rather than later, if you can work your way through. Cheers -
SchroCat (
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16:22, 12 June 2020 (UTC)reply
Ah, the joys of FAC. How I don't miss them at all - or the idiotic fumblings of the troll as he made a complete arse of himself in arguing over things he knows nothing about. I see little has changed in that respect since I stopped frequenting the place! -
SchroCat (
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14:32, 13 June 2020 (UTC)reply
It's also a little quote heavy, particularly where they aren't needed; one para has "an average character of my age, wearing a sports jacket"; "hoping the night wasn't being wasted"; "the first free Turkish bath I'd ever had"; "resembled a schoolteacher"; "total humiliation and embarrassment"; and "his heavy tweed suit and his heavy brogue shoes" – that's six for just the one para, and it's not untypical! Perhaps look at each of the quotes you've used and ask if it is needed – many can be rephrased in WP's own voice.
Yes, rephrased quite a few...
There are one or two places where you use first names after they have already been introduced (including for people like Jagger, of all people!)
Yeah...think thta's done.
Lead
"Easton saw the band once ... and they soon signed": he saw and they signed?
Check
"including their first single, Chuck Berry's "Come On"": Makes it look like they were on the original: perhaps "a
cover version of..."?
Good idea, done.
Musical context
"British audiences were accustomed to American popular music.": A date or era context would be good.
"well-known faces around the country": perhaps just "well-known around the country"?
Yes, they were hardly the Krays.
"a nationwide tour was about to commence by Bo Diddley and the Everley Brothers": swap to "a nationwide tour by Bo Diddley and the Everley Brothers was about to commence"
Easton for his part reminded Oldham that, as far as he was concerned[124]": is there something missing here? It doesn't make sense as it stands and is missing punctuation at the end.
Seems fine, it leads in the quote?
"On the other hand, according to": merge into previous paragraph?
Ditto re. Silly Buggers!
Other work
"Easton claimed to have managed the Dave Clark Five": Is this in doubt? "claimed" has connotations of not being true
Ha, yeah. It's because that's sourced, via a newspaper interview, to easton himself, and yet—bizarrely!—I can't find a RS that also says so. Try googling "eric easton" + "dave clark five": absolutely bugger all!
Reputation
"businesslike and practical[173] and "calm, dependable and knew": the "and ... and ... and" jars
2a. it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with
the layout style guideline.
All OK, although your capitalisations could be tweaked for one or two of the titles (Most have each word in caps, but there are one or two in sentance case)
2b.
reliable sources are
cited inline. All content that
could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose).