Talk:The Communards

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Any chance the first part of this article would be better at Communards? -- Zoe

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There are several other band related articles that incorporate popular promotional images of the band in question, but I notice people keep reverting such images of The Communards out of this particular article. I find that odd. --24.47.145.73 05:43, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

==Why don't we put about Pete's mum from BB connection with these?

Redirected discussion
The band name is "The Communards" as shown on the album cover RED and on my 12" Never Can Say Goodbye... and on Jimmy Somerville's website.

I am a newbie and i do not want to mess this page as it is a big change to do.

If someone wants to do it, please do. DeeJay Groove 15:45, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, G-Man -- Zoe

Now no one knows what was said. --Radioguy 10:56, 22 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I'll do a redirect then to The Communards.Tourskin 19:56, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Don't leave me this way
The song is not a cover of Thelma Houston, as she herself covered it from Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. Jalwikip (talk) 11:13, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

name of band
lets add why they're called the communards? named most likely after the name for the Paris commune in 1871 who called themselves "les communards" a socialist uprising in france. 16:04, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

I have edited this section, including the incorrect claim that Marx used the term "communist" to honour the Commune (he wrote the Communist Manifesto more than 20 years before the uprising). I have also rearranged some of the information and statements into what seems to be a more logical order to me as it was previously disjointed and confusing. rogue_lettuce (talk) 12:43, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

They originally were to be called "The Committee". However at the time there was a band already active under that name in Harrow, London. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.25.102.187 (talk) 22:09, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Commune
The sentence: "The name Communards comes from the French term for people from a commune." is wrong for 2 reasons. The word commune in France simply refers to a municipality, not a commune in the English sense (hence wrong redirection). People who live in a commune are not called communards. The name exclusively refers to the Paris Commune (named after citizens of the commune of Paris, who took up arms). FBlanc

I have removed this and simply said that it refers to the Paris Commune instead. rogue_lettuce (talk) 12:43, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Coles lying about having Aids
A bit about this was recently removed because it wasn't in the source referenced. If you want a source for it, it's in Coles' autobiography. --Walnuts go kapow (talk) 07:34, 17 August 2018 (UTC)