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Last verse appears in a Billy Bragg song... edit
One of my favorite Billy Bragg songs: To Have and Have Not repeats the lines: "Just because you're going forward/doesn't mean i'm going backwards". Does anyone know if this was a specific response to white riot? 140.247.54.81 (talk) 20:03, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
NPOV Issues edit
Yeah, so I am new. I wish I could flag this article--I don't know how--for containing opinion and not having a neutral point of view. The Inspiration and Composition section is the problem area here. The author says "Rather" Strummer was trying to appeal to youths etc. This "Rather" should be removed and the sentence should be reworded to say "Strummer Claims he was trying to appeal" etc with an appropriate citation affixed. Also the author's next line "It contains a positive message in the lines etc," is pure opinion and should be removed. I'm not even going to argue that it's wrong because, weather right or wrong, it is still opinion. That being said, couldn't those same lines of Strummer's be interpreted to mean "Are you taking over (and claiming your white privilege)" and "Are you taking orders (from people not caucasian)". Insert some more cited facts and remove all opinions, that is all I am saying....Birdmannavy (talk) 07:06, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
New article on 'White Riot' edit
I just started looking for new references that could be added to the article, and I found the following one which is a really long article just about this song. I am going to see what else I can grab from the article that can be added to this page, but I'm posting this so that others can look too. I bet it can be used to cite much of the stuff in the wiki article too.
- CLASSIC TRACKS: The Clash 'White Riot' Robman94 (talk) 22:07, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
@Doctorhawkes:, please explain why you deleted the citations that used this article from the UK "Sound on Sound" magazine? Not only was this article in the print edition of the magazine, it was deemed important enough to be listed on the cover. SOS is an established magazine which has existed since 1985 and the articles are subject to editorial review and therefore meet all the requirements of WP:RS. Robman94 (talk) 15:00, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
- My fault. Removed wrong ref. Apologies. Doctorhawkes (talk) 23:09, 8 May 2019 (UTC)