Talk:Moonshadow (song)

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What a horribly sad stub for a great song! This article lists the artist, year, and two pop culture references. That's it?!? Why bother even having a stub! Compare this with the article for Moon Shadow -- a pro-wrestling personality with a much more complete page (and no disambiguation of any kind to direct people to the meager Cat Stevens article). I guess Wikipedia has its priorities pretty firmly established: if we're talking pro-wrestling, or pop-culture movies and TV, you get the royal treatment. But anything pre-dating Generation Y deserves minimal, stub treatment. That's unfortunate. I sure hope somebody knowledgeable can someday take the time to expand deserving stubs like this one... 66.17.118.207 14:31, 6 October 2006 (UTC)


 * You need to find some published opinions about it and add the info to the article.  BTW am I right in thinking it was his biggest hit?  Steve Dufour 03:42, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

No matter how much you may happen to like it, it seems to me a bit much to devote an entire article (even an entire "stub") to a single pop song (especially one this conventional and simple, but never mind about that). Now, a musical is a different beast, and I wonder why there isn't more about "Moonshadow" the musical. TheScotch 07:11, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 08:27, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Moon Shadow or Moonshadow
The song was moved from Moonshadow to Moon Shadow. The move may be correct as traditional spelling, but did Cat Stevens release the song as Moon Shadow or Moonshadow? We don't want to be accurate linguistically and inaccurate as to exactly what was released. This needs further research for sure. Most of the album evidences favour Monshadow. For example refer to reports on the back of the album Teaser and Firecat. In the Greatest Hits cover, it also clearly says "Moonshadow" Our original article was also Moonshadow (song), until an editor moved it to Moon Shadow (song). However the single's cover clearly cuts the word as Moon Shadow just like it does for Cat Stevens. It remains to be seen that this was a graphic touch to balace (Cat / Stevens and Moon / Shadow) or a correction of title. But the more general consensus must weigh to the side of "Moonshadow" werldwayd (talk) 14:16, 2 August 2010 (UTC) werldwayd (talk) 14:24, 2 August 2010 (UTC)


 * On the album it's clearly Moonshadow, one word. It's been split on the single sleeve in order to fit it on two lines, but where there's space to put it on one line it's always one word, including in the notes to the 2008 rerelease which are written by Cat Stevens himself.182.240.34.126 (talk) 13:52, 12 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorted.JaneGrey (talk) 14:17, 12 November 2011 (UTC)


 * It is old news now, but I agree that the picture of the single sleeve could just by stylistic. But the single itself has the word on one line WITH the space. It seems the single was released as two words and the album had it as one word. My speculation is that it was meant to be one word, but was done incorrectly on the single and corrected for the album.AbramTerger (talk) 13:03, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Citation needed for statement
I have again removed the line you added: "The song reached #22 on the UK charts in 1970 and peaked at #30 the following year on the US Billboard Hot 100." since it does not have citations. Please find relevant citations if you want the line added.AbramTerger (talk) 12:35, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Tuberculosis
There are quite a few websites that claim this song was partly influenced by his battle with tuberculosis. The “if I ever lose my hands/legs/eyes/mouth” lines would represent his thoughts while he was in the hospital. I have yet to find a site making this claim that would meet the WP:RS threshold, but it seems plausible to me.LonelyBoy2012 (talk) 23:23, 4 June 2024 (UTC)