Talk:Children of the Revolution (song)

the song, in fact, might be about (yugoslav style) communism. the clue is provided by the lines "a rolls royce/is good for my voice/you can't fool the children of the revolution." martial tito (who DID possess a rolls royce) was once quoted as saying something similar. he said (to the best of my recollection) that he needed a rolls royce in order to have confidence in himself, that he had more confidence in himself while he was being driven around in a rolls royce than when he was at the wheel of a used yugo. tito said that a rolls royce was good for his speaking voice and that,"you can't fool the leader of the revolution." of course, tito was being sarcastic. he knew that he hypocritical, that rolls royces really had NOTHING to do with communist style revolution. thus, the bolan song is an ambiguous consideration of titoist communism. bolan admires the application of marxism within tito's yugoslavia, while at the same time acknowledging the hypocrises of the yugoslav communist system. (i may be a bit fuzzy about the tito quote. it's been a long time since he's been alive.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.233.206.70 (talk) 04:17, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

While Bolan wasn't without some degree of intellectual depth, his songs were. Pervasive though you make your argument, it's rather unlikely to have been the case. Many Bolan songs include references to cars, he was a bit of a car fanatic, though he never really learned to drive. I'm not sure what the song was about, but it's more likely to have been about himself and his own audience, with a lot of gentle irony.OzoneO (talk) 15:38, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Children of the Revolution (song)

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Children of the Revolution (song)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "British Hit Singles & Albums":

• From Baby Ford: Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 37. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
• From Lloyd Cole: Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 114. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 16:32, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

April 2021

it was advanced that youtube "is" not a reliable source but no result of a consensus supported that statement. This is not relevant to erase that fact, Patti Smith covered the song in a open air festival, it was captured by an attendee and the video was uploaded on youtube. The video is a primary source. Petti smith is a well known artist, as such her version should be mentioned in a factual way. @Synthwave.94: Woovee (talk) 05:30, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

@Woovee: Read and understand WP:SONGCOVER and WP:ELNEVER. Your addition doesn't meet both of them, as the YouTube video doesn't come from an official channel and that the cover itself is not notable (see also WP:SECONDARY). Synthwave.94 (talk) 13:11, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Bono / Gavin Friday / Maurice Seezer version of "Children of the Revolution"

Hi @Synthwave.94:,

I can see that you are doing a grand job in reverting all edits by my fellow Wikipedians on your article ...then quoting WP:SONGCOVER without explaining what your problem actually is (now 11 times and counting). Keep up the good work!

Yet another reference, this time from AllMusic, see https://www.allmusic.com/song/children-of-the-revolution-mt0001792092. AllMusic is listed in WP:RSMUSIC as a reliable source, but I am not reverting your edit again. Hopefully I don't edit any other of your articles in the future. I move on... SethWhales ^talk 06:16, 2 June 2021 (UTC)