User:Ian Rose
From bayside Russell Lea in Sydney, Australia, an IT delivery manager by trade (who can still program, let me hastily add) with an abiding interest in film, music, history and travel. Son of RAAF pilot Ian and model Betty. Married to the beautiful Diana and owner of three cats and one lovable labrador, Cindy-Lea.
Why do I read - and contribute to - Wikipedia ? Like Everest, because it’s there, i.e. on the Web and free and solicitous of contributions. Also because of its strong focus on art and culture, particularly modern/popular art and culture. Where else do you find more on David Bowie than you do on Beethoven ? Don’t get me wrong, I think Beethoven deserves all the coverage he gets but I can find a decent article on him in Britannica – unfortunately can’t say the same of Bowie in that august journal...
My main projects at the moment are (see sections below for status):
- rectifying the (once) lamentable lack of articles on Gary Numan recordings
- adding/expanding articles on David Bowie recordings and associated artists such as Iggy Pop
- expanding articles on early Roxy Music recordings
- adding/expanding articles on John Foxx and early Ultravox recordings
- adding/expanding articles on Fad Gadget recordings
- cleaning up and filling the occasional gap in other artists' representation
- adding/expanding articles on Australian crime (in the planning stage)
- helping out on Rolling Stones personnel and recording articles
- helping out on Wikipedia:WikiProject ADF
However, the beauty (or curse) of a project like this is that roads lead everywhere so you never know where I might pop up...
New articles
- Tubeway Army (Tubeway Army album)
- Complex (Gary Numan single)
- We Are Glass (Gary Numan single)
- I Die: You Die (Gary Numan single)
- She's Got Claws (Gary Numan single)
- Telekon (Gary Numan album)
- Sacrifice (Gary Numan album)
- Exile (Gary Numan album)
- Pure (Gary Numan album)
- "Heroes" (David Bowie single)
- Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie single)
- David Live (David Bowie album)
- Broken English (Marianne Faithfull album)
- All the Young Dudes (Mott the Hoople single)
- Systems of Romance (Ultravox album)
- Burning Car (John Foxx single)
- Miles Away (John Foxx single)
- Ricky's Hand (Fad Gadget single)
- Fire (Arthur Brown single)
- Know Your Product (The Saints single)
- Stormtrooper in Drag (Paul Gardiner/Gary Numan single)
- Paul Gardiner (bass player)
- Warren Peace (vocalist)
- Simon House (keyboardist/violinist)
- Mick Woodmansey (drummer) - Stub only
- Tony Newman (drummer) - Stub only
- George Murray (bass player) - Stub only
- Tony Sales (bass player) - Stub only
- Ricky Gardiner (guitarist) - Stub only
- Roy Carr (music journalist) - Stub only
- Guy Peellaert (artist) - To come
- Morotai Mutiny
Major revisions/expansions
- That's Too Bad (Tubeway Army single)
- Bombers (Tubeway Army single)
- Jo the Waiter (Tubeway Army song)
- Only A Downstat (Tubeway Army song)
- Down In The Park (Tubeway Army single)
- Are 'Friends' Electric? (Tubeway Army single)
- Replicas (Tubeway Army album)
- Cars (Gary Numan single)
- The Pleasure Principle (Gary Numan album)
- Dance (Gary Numan album)
- Jagged (Gary Numan album)
- The Supermen (David Bowie song)
- Starman (David Bowie song)
- The Jean Genie (David Bowie song)
- Rebel Rebel (David Bowie song)
- Future Legend (David Bowie song)
- Weeping Wall (David Bowie song)
- Joe The Lion (David Bowie song)
- Neuköln (David Bowie song)
- David Bowie (David Bowie album)
- Space Oddity (David Bowie album)
- The Man Who Sold The World (David Bowie album)
- Aladdin Sane (David Bowie album)
- Diamond Dogs (David Bowie album)
- Station to Station (David Bowie album) - Expansion to come
- "Heroes" (David Bowie album)
- Stage (David Bowie album)
- Lodger (David Bowie album)
- Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (David Bowie album)
- The Idiot (Iggy Pop album)
- Lust For Life (Iggy Pop album)
- Roxy Music (Roxy Music album)
- For Your Pleasure (Roxy Music album)
- Stranded (album) (Roxy Music album) - Expansion to come
- Country Life (Roxy Music album)
- Siren (Roxy Music album) - Expansion to come
- Let's Stick Together (Bryan Ferry album)
- Ultravox! (Ultravox album) - Expansion/clean-up to come
- Metamatic (John Foxx album)
- The Garden (John Foxx album)
- Fireside Favourites (Fad Gadget album) - Expansion/infobox to come
- Incontinent (Fad Gadget album) - Expansion/infobox to come
- Shock the Monkey (Peter Grabriel single)
- Hall of the Mountain Grill (Hawkwind album)
- (I'm) Stranded (The Saints album) - Expansion/infobox to come
- Friday on My Mind (The Easybeats single)
- Lucifer Sam (Pink Floyd song)
- How Soon Is Now? (The Smiths single)
- Nightclubbing (Grace Jones album) - Expansion/clean-up to come
- The Saints
- Fad Gadget - Expansion/clean-up to come
- Iron Virgin
- Edward Fox
- No. 78 Wing RAAF
- No. 82 Wing RAAF
Other updates/expansions/clean-ups
- Gary Numan
- Tubeway Army
- David Bowie
- Cygnet Committee (David Bowie song)
- The Width of a Circle (David Bowie song)
- Black Country Rock (David Bowie song)
- Oh! You Pretty Things (David Bowie song)
- Quicksand (David Bowie song)
- The Bewlay Brothers (David Bowie song)
- Lady Stardust (David Bowie song)
- Diamond Dogs (David Bowie song)
- Rock 'n' Roll With Me (David Bowie song)
- It's No Game (David Bowie song)
- Fashion (David Bowie song)
- Scream Like a Baby (David Bowie song)
- Hunky Dory (David Bowie album)
- ChangesOneBowie (David Bowie album)
- Low (David Bowie album)
- Berlin Trilogy (Bowie)
- ChangesTwoBowie (David Bowie album)
- ChangesBowie (David Bowie album)
- Ziggy Stardust - The Motion Picture (David Bowie album)
- Here Come the Warm Jets (Brian Eno album)
- Another Green World (Brian Eno album)
- Before and after Science (Brian Eno album)
- Iggy Pop
- The Passenger (Iggy Pop song)
- All the Young Dudes (Mott the Hoople album)
- Virginia Plain (Roxy Music song)
- Block Buster (The Sweet song)
- Mick Ronson - Copyedit to come
- John Foxx
- Ha!-Ha!-Ha! (Ultravox album) - Clean-up to come
- Florian Schneider
- Radioactivity (Kraftwerk song)
- The Model (Kraftwerk song)
- Keith Richards
- Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stones song)
- Miss You (Rolling Stones song)
- Venus in Furs (Velvet Underground song)
- Killing an Arab (The Cure single)
- Children of the Night (Nash the Slash album)
- Cut Lunch (Models EP)
- Paul Buckmaster (musician)
- Grace Jones
- Nina Hagen
- Yoko Ono
- Snakefinger
- Heaven 17
- B.E.F. (British Electric Foundation)
- Sinéad O'Connor
- Eddie Rayner
- Noel Crombie
- Martin McCarrick
- Hunt Sales
- Mike Leander
- Jet (band)
- Miles Away (band)
- Michael Brook
- Birgit Nilsson
- Anne-Sophie Mutter
- Working Class Hero (John Lennon song)
- The White Album (Beatles album)
- Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan album)
- Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan song)
- Subterranean Homesick Blues (Bob Dylan Song)
- The White Albun (TISM album)
- The Iron Man: A Musical (Pete Townshend album)
- Captive (The Edge album)
- Freak Like Me (Sugababes song)
- Are You Gonna Be My Girl? (Jet song)
- Deram Records
- Olympic Studios
- Mersey Sound
- Ben-Hur (1959 film)
- Monty Python's Life of Brian
- The Lord of the Rings
- Blake's 7
- David Tench Tonight
- Roger Rogerson
- Richard Carleton
- Belinda Emmett
- Allan Moffat
- PSA Flight 182
- American Airlines Flight 96
- Tenerife disaster
- Knox Grammar School
- Surfers Paradise, Queensland
- Neukölln
- Bathurst 1000
- List of atheists
...and a host of gnomic little corrections/additions at many other pages that have caught my attention...
Edit history
- 1st - 14:44, 15 October 2005
- 500th - 07:36, 20 March 2006
- 1000th - 12:55, 3 June 2006
- 1500th - 23:42, 2 September 2006
- 2000th - 14:28, 25 October 2006
- 2500th - 16:15, 4 December 2006
- 3000th - 07:49, 29 January 2007
- 3500th - 01:37, 8 March 2007
- 4000th - 09:57, 15 April 2007
- 4500th - 00:37, 15 May 2007
As the Doc said in Bridge on the River Kwai, "Madness...! Madness...!"