Talk:Band of Gold (Freda Payne song)

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Original Research
I carried out some original research into this song and added it to the article, only for it to be removed by a bot before I could finish the changes. I need some help with correcting this, completing the article and adding the references. How do I go about this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.178.167.76 (talk) 03:04, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

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Sitar player
The sitar player on the song as listed as Vinnie Bell and this struck me as being unlikely. So I email Dennis Coffey, listed as one of the guitar players, but who I knew also played sitar. Here is the exchange:
 * On Saturday, September 7, 2019, 07:31:19 PM EDT, Einar E Kvaran  wrote:
 * From: Einar 
 * Subject: Band of Gold
 * Message Body:
 * I was wondering if you played the sitar on Freda Payne song "Band of Gold." I know that you were on it and I've seen somewhere else that you play the sitar.  Thanks, Einar
 * Dennis Coffey 
 * 9:19 AM (1 hour ago)
 * to me
 * Hi Einar. Yes. I did. It was a Coral electric sitar that you play like a guitar. Dennis
 * Carptrash (talk) 17:26, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

Lyrics and interpretation
This article does not clearly differentiate between the lyrics that actually appear in the song and other lyrics that were allegedly recorded, but were not included in Freda Payne's hit recording:


 * An earlier studio recorded version of the song includes some lyrics which were cut from the seven-inch single, which reveal the story as somewhat different. The couple were young, the girl was either a virgin or sexually inexperienced. She was still living at home ("You took me from the shelter of my mother"), the boy was her first boyfriend ("I had never known or loved any other"), and the relationship was probably unconsummated ("and love me like you tried before".) The couple rush into marriage and the relationship crashes on the wedding night, when the woman rejects her groom's advance ("And the night I turned you away”) emotionally wounding him, resulting in him leaving her. After the hurt she had caused, they spend their wedding night in separate rooms. She then expresses her regret at her mistake ("And the dream of what love could be, if you were still here with me").

All of the quoted lyrics appear in the hit single (contrary to the implication here that they were all cut), except for "And the night I turned you away", which would indeed place a different spin on the couple's relationship (that the narrator rejected her husband on their wedding night, instead of vice versa). But no source is cited for the original version including "And the night I turned you away", nor "Each night, I lie awake and I tell myself, the vows we made gave you the right, to have a love each night", as quoted in a later paragraph. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 01:52, 9 October 2020 (UTC)