Talk:Del Shannon

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I removed the following:
 * He had been named as the replacement for Roy Orbison in the Travelling Wilburys.

If someone can document this please reinsert it. Ted Wilkes 23:41, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Material facts/Prima facie evidence
It's not necessary to stick a citation tag on every single line of an article. A banner at the top to cover the whole article would do a better job if it needs cleaning up. Removing uncited material would improve the article more than listing a dozen citation tags. Citation tags aren't necessary for facts which are in the "Public Domain." The fact that Del Shannon killed himself doesn't have to be cited. Whether he enjoyed a hit with a song or not isn't necessary either; everyone knows "Runaway" was a hit. The excess citation tags litter the article.68.117.181.136 22:30, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Citations & References
See Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the  tags Nhl4hamilton (talk) 04:48, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Del Shannon's ancestry?
Shannon's real name, Westover, is shared with 19C relatives of the late cricket writer E.W. Swanton, who are known to have emigrated to the USA. Any chance of kinship between these two men? Medieval Duck, 7.3.09

Prozac Eli Lilly lawsuit (suicidal ideation)
Seems there should be a mention of this, since it was widely reported at the time. His wife filed suit, claiming that Shannon had taken the drug for 15 days at the time of his suicide. The lawsuit was later dropped, apparently settled out of court, but his famous name brought added media attention to the issue. Excerpt from the NYT (in case it disappears behind a paywall):

''Prozac, the commercial form of the compound fluoxetine, is already the center of a sharp legal and medical dispute. More than 50 lawsuits have been filed nationwide against Lilly.

''One involves the former rock star Del Shannon, who was taking Prozac when he committed suicide in Los Angeles last year.

Like most of the others, the suit by Mr. Shannon's wife, Leanne Westover, charges the pharmaceutical company with "improper testing" of Prozac and "a failure to warn the medical community of the dangerous propensities that Prozac can produce in a small number of cases," said Leonard Finz, a New York lawyer who is the lead counsel in the Shannon case and now the most prominent legal crusader against Prozac.

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/07/health/suicidal-behavior-tied-again-to-drug.html 24.128.188.152 (talk) 20:19, 4 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Perhaps the FDA hearing where his wife testified is notable as well? Some links with info: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ__IRCoQHk (at 3:33) and http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DQ52lquMnE0C&printsec=frontcover&hl=nl&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false (at page 153)Ineverheardofhim (talk) 11:18, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Versions of 'Runaway'
Runaway has its own page, so there is surely no need for a list here. Rothorpe (talk) 16:42, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Agreed. There is a lengthy list of covers in the song article, no need to repeat it here. For that matter, what is so significant about Bonnie Raitt's version? If the editor wants to include it here, why not every single other cover version? There's a reason the song has its own article... Echoedmyron (talk) 18:35, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Legacy
According to music critic Ian MacDonald, John Lennon created the song "I'll Be Back" based on the chords of Del Shannon's "Runaway" which had been a UK hit in April 1961. "Runaway" was a number-one Billboard Hot 100 song in 1961. Author Bill Harry wrote: "He [Lennon] just reworked the chords of the Shannon number and came up with a completely different song". Harry, Bill (2000). The Beatles Encyclopedia: Revised and Updated. London: Virgin Publishing. ISBN 0-7535-0481-2. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mustang Ed (talk • contribs) 05:52, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Confusion
"However, RSO Records, which was producing Shannon, folded; the LP was further recorded by Network Records and distributed by Elektra Records."

This sentence is confusing to me. The sentence before it states that Tom Petty was producing Shannon for the aforementioned LP. Then, more of the record was recorded "by" a company as opposed to "for" a company. I propose this edit. "However RSO Records, to which Shannon was signed, folded. Further work on the LP was done for the Network Records label (which was distributed by Elektra Records)." This is, of course, assuming the information is accurate. Thoughts?THX1136 (talk) 21:07, 11 March 2015 (UTC)


 * The edit has been made.THX1136 (talk) 21:00, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Inconsistent entry for Del Shannon
Early in the article reference is made to a "musitron" as being the invention and instrument of one of Shannon's band members. The link associated with the musitron refers to a "clavioline" which is attributed to a different inventor. It is elsewhere stated that the musitron derived from the clavioline but that association should be noted somewhere to avoid the appearance of an inconsistency. I would fix it but I don't (yet) know how to make that kind of contribution. PAFMElb36 (talk) 01:28, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Private life?
Nothing on relationships? Valetude (talk) 15:15, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Small grammatical issue (redundant)
At the end of the first section we have "In addition, he also had minor acting roles." There's probably a better solution (which is why I'm not just changing it myself) but removing "In addition" or "also" would be an improvement. Kevintimba (talk) 18:24, 16 March 2023 (UTC)