Talk:Duke Special

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New single?

Does anyone know the name of his new single? It's a class song —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.203.12.241 (talk) 12:35, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Do you mean 'Our Love Goes Deeper Than This'? Or is there a newer one?Patren (talk) 05:41, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Garcon Pamplemousse

I have an album on my computer of Duke Special songs. It's entitled Garcon Pamplemousse (Grapefruit Boy) and I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about this? I don't have the track names and I'm not sure where it came from, but it exists. 86.154.212.65 (talk) 16:06, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Garcon Pamplemousse was released in 2001 by one of Wilson's previous bands, Benzine Headset, before he adopted the Duke Special identity. It's a bit more rocky and guitar-heavy than his Duke Special material, and has early versions of a few songs he's recorded as Duke Special. The track list is:

1. As Good as it gets
2. You're Making Me So Happy (For a Change)
3. Fire
4. Freewheel
5. I Am Useless
6. Kill Me Quickly
7. Trying to Say
8. Fall Asleep With the TV On
9. Guessing
10. Walk Without Direction
11. Walk Without Direction
12. Some Kind of Love

It's not bad, but not quite, as they say in football, the finished article. --Nicknack009 (talk) 18:16, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Mandolin(e)

"Dan Donnelly (mandoline, backing vocals)"

[[Mandoline] or mandolin? Flapdragon (talk) 22:21, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Date of Birth

I was at Sullivan Upper School with Peter Wilson. His date of birth would have to be 1970-1971. If it was 1980 he would have taken his 'A' levels at 9 years old. I remember him being a little on the short side but I don't think it was because he was 9. So the 1980 date of birth on this page must be wrong. Usserius (talk) 17:10, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

I can concur with Usserius, and wonder where the birthdate of 1980 comes from - perhaps it's a bit of mischievous myth-making on someone's part? I knew Pete when he was living in my home town in England around 1990-91, and he was lead singer with a band there at the time (which isn't mentioned in the article, but then I wouldn't want anyone to remember the band I was in back then either). As I recall, Pete was at least a year older than me (possibly two), and I would've been 17-18 during that period, so you can do the maths on the age front. As an aside: I would never have recognised Duke Special as the guy I knew nearly two decades ago, had someone not explained who he was, but then he's not the only one to have changed a bit in the intervening years... Tawalker72 (talk) 23:54, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

You are right. The confusion comes from this article: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-10740882.html

"I've been at this for years now, and so it's about time," jokes the man who refuses to reveal his real age. "How old am I? Duke Special is 28." And Peter Wilson? In the pause that follows, blood rushes to the man's cheeks in a crimson blush. "Peter Wilson," he mumbles, "is an altogether different story. Let's just say I'm a little older."

He is smiling now, and the smile prompts enough creased definition around the eyes and mouth to suggest he won't be seeing 35 again.

I suppose a wiki bio shouldn't rely on tongue-in-cheek info, so if Peter isn't 28/9 and refuses to reveal his age, I guess it should be removed. --86.41.38.219 (talk) 16:32, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

From Peter Wilson's personal Facebook page, the "Number One Song on The Day You Were Born" application states his as Dave Edmunds - I Hear You Knockin. This song was number 1 from 28 November 1970 for 6weeks, thus making his birth date somewhere in that 6week period. So Peter Wilson is currently 39, and Duke Special.. still 28 I guess. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.209.6.40 (talk) 17:54, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Assessment comment

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== Rated Start/Mid (WP:NIR) May 2009 == The most important thing this article needs is a set of references and citations for the many facts it contains. Aside from this it is a well-written article and could work out to be informative and interesting, as long as the information within it can be qualified. Hence, still rated start-class but would score much higher with a few citations. Fattonyni (talk) 14:48, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

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