Talk:Giorgio Moroder/Archive 1

Moroder's Supercar involvement
Should there be a mention of his involvement in the Cizeta-Moroder V16 Supercar (financing/development?)? -24.214.66.188 03:42, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

NOT his most famous work
This is one of the most famous and successful producers and composers of his generation. I don't think that "his most famous" work is the organ sampled in a DJ Shadow song. Perhaps what is meant there is the work of his that is most well-known to today's younger generation. I propose changing the wording of this. Aglie 03:43, 25 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I think I'll just reword it to say that the organ was sampled and extensively used as the basis for the song. Unless they visit the Endtroducing..... page on wikipedia, I'm pretty sure most people don't even know it comes from a Giorgio Moroder composition. Hawksun 22:22, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Son of my Father
I don't remember Son of my Father being a hit under his own name. In the UK at least, it was performed by Chicory Tip. Britmax 16:40, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Coast To Coast theme
Would it be of note to mention that Moroder's Midnight Express theme is also the theme song for Coast To Coast AM? Aristan 00:43, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Someone switched the image
It seems that something went wrong we see an Abba picture and I'm sure none of them are Georgio Moroder ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.231.135.38 (talk) 13:48, January 13, 2007 (UTC)


 * And I have taken care of it. __meco 14:48, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Euro vs. Italo
Would Giorgio Moroder be considered Euro Disco or Italo Disco? 24.250.1.196 00:50, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Seeing as how he was basically making both before either even existed, why should we bother, or care, to designate him as either? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.138.235.243 (talk) 01:40, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Cameo?
When did he ever work with Cameo? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hallander (talk • contribs) 20:19, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Musicland Studios and Led Zep
"Moroder is also the founder of the former Musicland Studios in Munich, which served as a recording home for artists ranging from Led Zeppelin and Queen to Elton John for much of the 1980s and 1990s." I somehow doubt this, as Led Zeppelin recorded their last studio album in 1978 and split up in 1980. Anyone got any more info on this studio? —Preceding unsigned comment added by OliverHarris (talk • contribs) 23:05, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Olympic anthems by Moroder?
Is there someone who knows that he composed also the Music for several Olympic Games?--Emes 16:20, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Cameo Thank God Its Friday
Did Moroder make a cameo in the 70's movie "Thank God Its Friday?" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Funnygurl2008 (talk • contribs) 14:29, October 28, 2008 (UTC)

Electric Dreams (film-1984)
In the final scene of the 1984 Electric Dreams film which Moroder scored, he is featured in a brief cameo during Philip Oakley & Moroder's song "Electric Dreams." He is quoted as saying "What is going on here? Where is it coming from?" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.87.92.121 (talk • contribs) 06:55, July 21, 2009 (UTC)

Pet Shop Boys?
When did he work with Pet Shop boys? 30.01.2009 (DRF) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.186.252.183 (talk) 18:00, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Academy Awards
It's not mentioned anywhere that he has won three academy awards, not many high profile composers have done this (Morricone comes to mind). But i'm guessing winning an academy award for music is not the same as one for acting or directing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.95.152.43 (talk) 06:19, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Ladin
The "first"language of Moroder is ladin, so I correct the line when it was written German (anyway Moroder is skilled in both, as well as in italian, english and spanish) I also inserted a link to an interview (in italian) where Moroder confirmed this and says he support the organization "Ladins tl monn" "Ladin speakers of the world" in this interview he also regret that he can only speak ladin with his brothers on the phone nowadays. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.145.149.20 (talk) 08:28, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The linked article does not state, that his mother-language is ladin. In fact his mother was austrian, and Giorgios mother-language is german too. Although he grew up in a town where most speak ladin, and thus his cultural background is ladin too. I am too from the same town and can confirm that many people here, despite having german as mother-language, consider themselves part of a ladin community/culture.--Sajoch (talk) 10:41, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Do not add more informations based on "homemade" sites (like Amisc dla Ladinia) and don't keep them after the site has expired. Even if there were consensus or recognition about an "ethnicity ", MOS:BIO clearly states Ethnicity or sexuality should not generally be emphasized in the opening unless it is relevant to the subject's notability, and of course is not the case.  This form is beyond ridiculous: if he is Ladin, speaks Ladin, was born and grew up in Ladinia, write it in the text, with the appropriate sources. --Felisopus (talk) 19:07, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Birth name
Since an IP and User:Durazzo insist on removing Giorgio's legal name "Hansjörg" and replacing it by the Italian form "Giovanni Giorgio", I'd really like to start a discussion here. In the article, there are two different sources so far which confirm "Hansjörg" as being his birth name:
 * This article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a high-profile national newspaper in Germany on the occasion of his 70th birthday,
 * This biography on laut.de, a renowned and award-winning German music journalism website,

and by googling around it's quite easy to find many others, for example this book or his IMDB entry. --Mai-Sachme (talk) 21:30, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * don't think that the official birthname is Hansjörg because he was born during fascism and German names were forbidden. Shure is that all the family used to call him Hansjörg --Moroderen (talk) 19:49, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * In the last song by Daft Punk, where a part of an interview with him is used, He calls himself Giovanni Giorgio. Explicitly, he says: "My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody call me Giorgio". 193.127.207.152 (talk) 09:34, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 * As Moroderen already pointed out: in 1940 South Tyrol was under fascist administration, and all Names were translated by public officers into italian. That's why he was called "Hansjörg" by his family, but for the registration office he appears as "Giovanni Giorgo".--Sajoch (talk) 10:38, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Still, if he calls himself that way, I personally think we should call him this way too. 87.218.43.148 (talk) 17:13, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Grand Theft Auto music use?
change the wording or mentioned songs for video games? the music of ‘Flashback FM’ in Grand Theft Auto III is completely made up of five songs written and produced by Moroder from the Scarface soundtrack, while the same station in GTA: Liberty City Stories is also made up of six further Moroder songs http://gta.wikia.com/Flashback_FM — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.23.168.163 (talk) 02:06, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Breaking Bad cameo appearance
In the last season of AMC's Breaking Bad, did Giovanni make a very brief cameo as one of the Board of Directors of the corporation for which Lydia worked? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.111.29.2 (talk) 18:21, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Austrian IPs adding external links
Per WP:ELMINOFFICIAL, the number of official external links should be kept to a minimum, ideally just one. Over the last year, an IP editor from Austria has repeatedly added several more external links such as Facebook, Soundcloud and Twitter:

I think all we need is the one link to www.moroder.net. Such a link should perfectly satisfy WP:ELMINOFFICIAL. That one website used to cover Moroder's work, as seen at this archived version from March 2013. Unfortunately, for the past year, the official Moroder website has displayed some kind of "coming soon" announcement of a relaunch. Until the official website starts working again, perhaps we need to select one external link that works. Which one? Binksternet (talk) 19:32, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Ode to Moroder
I recommend mentioning the Matt Pop Remix "Shelter feat. Andy Bell "In Somebody`s Arms" (Matt Pop Ode De Moroder Mix)" as it is obviously a musical tribute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXoJJGVGdSQ 24.79.32.243 (talk) 22:24, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Awful sentence
I don't know what it's supposed to mean, so I couldn't correct it, but the sentence that reads 'For the "Chase" instrumental, see that article' is beyond horrible. --uKER (talk) 18:18, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's so obvious as to be useless. Not sure what the original edit was trying to accomplish. Well, it's gone now. Willondon (talk) 18:33, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

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Politics or history?
In those years 1940 under the fashist regime in South Tyrol, it was unthinkable to give someone a German name irrespective of any etnical origin. This is history not politics. In his family and in the town Giorgio was always called by the name given in the family "Hansjörg" --Moroder (talk) 19:21, 28 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Your problem isn't the knowledge of history, but demographics instead: the sentence is clearly allusive and implies that Moroder was supposed to be given a German name, except that he comes from the Ladin-speaking town of Urtijëi, so there's no reason to assume that he was somehow supposed to be given a German name. According to the source that is cited in the same paragraph, only his mother used to call him "Hansjorg", because SHE was a german native speaker. He's never said that "his family" used to call him that way, let alone that politics is involved with his naming. They sound like pretty heavy assumptions: do you have any source to claim all of that? Post it and the edit will be acceptable, that's how wikipedia works. Until then, I'm undoing your edit, because as it stands now the sentence is unsourced and misleading. 109.168.64.106 (talk) 00:16, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Tubular Bells
Hard to believe Moroder was not influenced by Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells". Or Phillip Glass. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.30.55.165 (talk) 23:10, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Donna Summer
This article should give more emphasis on his collaboration with Donna Summer. She isn't even mentioned in the list of notable collaborations.--Borishollas (talk) 08:03, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Donna Summer is mentioned 7 times - in't that enough?--Sajoch (talk) 17:14, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Enough is enough. —johndburger 17:29, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

This entire page is a hot mess
Riddled with errors, glaring omissions, and chronological details that are sprayed all over the place. I want to fix it, and maybe will, but I don't even know where to start just yet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.224.73.221 (talk) 14:17, 10 November 2021 (UTC)