Talk:Ellen Foley

Categories
Before this turns into a full scale edit war, leave the categories alone now until we've discussed it on here with reference to the MOS. The JPS 12:04, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Right, the MOS suggests that we should not include if we are to use the  category too.


 * So, I propose we leave this under Female Singers, which is more descriptive. Imagine if every person who could be described as a 'singer' was put in that category — it would demean the concept of categories, as they'd be far too many articles. The JPS 13:02, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

technically speaking
ellen foley was only succeeded by markie post in that markie post was the major female player. ellen foley was was a bailff, who succeeded selma diamond. markie post was an attorney. 21:51, 23 June 2008 (UTC)harry l lee

No, I think you have it mistaken. Ellen Foley's character wasn't a Baliff; it's was of a Public Defender. If you go down the line of actresses who played the role of Legal Aid lawyer, it starts from Paula Kelly, Ellen Foley and then Markie Post. The line of female Baliffs is Selma Diamond, Florence Halop and lastly Marsha Warfield. You were getting to the right idea, just had it mixed up a bit.

Rayghost (talk) 09:04, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Feargal Sharkey
Was she also once the girlfriend of Feargal Sharkey (see http://revrock.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Earthlyreason (talk • contribs) 08:59, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Spirit of St. Louis
Seems to me that Spirit of St. Louis deserves more than the passing mention it gets here. Not a big commercial success, but a fine album, and notable for containing a bunch of Strummer-Jones songs that the Clash never recorded, and which were notably different from their usual style. - Jmabel | Talk 04:34, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Lori Petty
Anyone ever notice that Foley bears more than a passing resemblance to actress Lori Petty?

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This article includes the line: "The Clash's hit song "Should I Stay or Should I Go", written and sung by Jones, was about the turbulent relationship he shared with Foley at the time."

The article about the song says: "Many rumours have arisen about the song's content, such as Jones' impending dismissal from the Clash or the rocky personal relationship between Jones and singer Ellen Foley, but Jones himself says: ' It wasn't about anybody specific and it wasn't pre-empting my leaving The Clash. It was just a good rockin' song, our attempt at writing a classic ... When we were just playing, that was the kind of thing we used to like to play. – Mick Jones, 1991' "

The first is a direct quote from a first-person perspective (the songwriter and one of the two in the relationship); the second includes documentation that is an unsourced collection of "facts" (web.archive.org/web/20120717204427/http://londonsburning.org/art_nme_03_16_91.html). The second source of the rumor (www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-clash/biography) no longer includes mention of any mention of Foley in regards to the song.

The articles should be reconciled. I recommend something like... "was rumored to be about the turbulent relationship between Foley and Jones, although he claims 'it wasn't about anybody specific'. "

That offers a more neutral POV, while still mentioning what many people thought (and still think) about the origin of the song. . 2602:30A:2CD0:5820:596D:41E5:968D:5036 (talk) 18:27, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

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