Talk:David Munrow

The Devils film
I'm just wondering if an error has been made. In the article on David Munrow someone has stated that he "contributed" to the musical score for Ken Russell's film The Devils. But in the Wiki article on that movie, it says music by Peter Maxwell Davies. There is no mention of David Munrow. Also, his expanse of instrumental skills goes way beyond the three mentioned in the summary box. The entire recorder family for a start! I'm not making any edits yet, but there is room for discussion here. Musicmaker (talk) 23:40, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Citogenesis?
Thanks for finding sources for the claims about Munrow's death,, but I wonder whether the BBC article is an example of what XKCD has called citogenesis (https://xkcd.com/978/). The version of this article as of July 2016 read, "In 1976 Munrow committed suicide by hanging himself while in a state of depression; the recent deaths of his father and father-in-law, to whom he dedicated his sole book, are thought to have contributed to his decision to take his own life. He had, however, attempted suicide by drug overdose the previous year." The recently cited BBC article from November 28, 2016 reads, "He suffered from depression, which was possibly exacerbated by the recent deaths of his father and father-in-law, to whom he dedicated his only book, Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance." That verges on plagiarism, IMO, and certainly points to the Wikipedia article as the source for the BBC article, so the BBC article could hardly be a legitimate source for those otherwise unsupported statements in the Wikipedia article. And that text about his father and father-in-law actually dates to before the publication of Electric Eden, which uses that same (admittedly shorter) phrase. So it's entirely possible that that book too got that factoid from the Wikipedia article, making it another instance of citogenesis. The Maxine Handy source, on the other hand, looks righteous, as the article as of 2009 said nothing about his 1975 suicide attempt, and Handy is more cautious in attributing reasons for Munrow's death. I propose we drop the other two sources, and revise the text more in line with Handy's treatment of the incident. What do you think? Jbening (talk) 04:27, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
 * That's entirely possible - if you have better sources then by all means replace the citations with better ones. I was only concerned that this part of the article had been left unsourced, and once citations are missing, it tends to result in deletion of valid content. It's a terribly sad story and I would hate to see it removed on a technicality, so if you can improve it, please do. Thanks for bringing it up. Cnbrb (talk) 09:24, 18 July 2018 (UTC)