Talk:Victoria Beckham
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Full Stop
[edit]"Full Stop" was not a promotional single. It was leaked onto the internet as part of the fan-titled "Open Your Eyes" album. A few radio stations played the song to generate buzz, but Victoria had no plans to return to music. EW mistakenly reported it as a comeback. Also, the rapper on the song is not Nas. He has not been identified. Entry removed from her discography, and EW article removed as a source - incorrect information.
Currency conversion
[edit]Under “Power and Influence,” the conversion of pounds to dollars is incorrect. It should be closer to $125 m, not $225 m. 173.72.18.72 (talk) 03:47, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
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Add " Songwriter " to Victoria Beckhams occupations.
She has many writing credits, such as on majority of "Spice Girls" songs, and has writing credits on her own Solo songs.
References:
- When viewing the writing credits on the "Spice" album, Victoria Beckham has writing credits on every song.[1]
- On the website "Lyrics.lyricfind.com" she is labeled as one of the writers under numerous songs on various Spice Girl albums.[2][3][4]
- Her solo album titled "Victoria Beckham", she has also been credited on songs such as "A Mind Of Its Own", "Like That" and "Girlfriend" under the name "V Beckham"[5]
- Not done: you need to provide reliable sources that describe her as a songwriter. M.Bitton (talk) 23:53, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
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Is this serious?
[edit]"and Anthony William Adams, who worked as an electronics engineer, and drove a Rolls-Royce, something she would later dispute."
Is this supposed to be tongue-in-cheek? SeleneMarie (talk) 22:43, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- Do a search for her dad on the internet. He owned a company supplying electronics parts and they lived in a house with a pool. (Don't know where you are in the world but having a swimming pool in the UK in the 1980s was a sign of considerable wealth, like only five houses in the town of 60k people or something.)--ToaneeM (talk) 17:44, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- I understand that, and I can recognize it came from the furor in the promo of her Netflix documentary. It was a running joke, and a snippet of a scene where she mentions this made the rounds. However, it seems silly to add this detail. It lacks sense, and it even throws off that part in her biography. SeleneMarie (talk) 20:56, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
You're recognising the wrong thing then - had you only heard it from Netflix recently, then? It's been known in the media decades longer than the documentary. I remember it from interviews and articles around 1999-2000. Meanwhile, from the 2008 book (16 years ago) "The Spice Girls Revisited" by David Sinclair:
"Her father, Tony Adams, is a self-made man, who enjoyed a spell as a singer in covers bands such as The Soniks and The Calettos during the Sixties, and then worked as a sales representative in North London before he and Jackie set up their own electrical wholesale business. Thanks to a combination of hard work and business acumen, it became a flourishing concern, which enabled the family to enjoy a comfortable lifestyle in a large house in Goff ‘s Oak, Hertfordshire with regular sorties to the holiday playgrounds of the nouveau riche in places such as the Canary Islands and Spain. Encouraged by her parents, Victoria showed an early enthusiasm for music and drama, and enrolled at the tender age of eight for after-school classes at the Jason Theatre School in Broxbourne. She started secondary school at St Mary’s High in Cheshunt in 1985, where she was given a rough ride by fellow pupils who were envious of her family’s wealth – her father would drop her off at the school gates in a Rolls-Royce – and teased her because she suffered from acne."--ToaneeM (talk) 12:33, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- Although she claims to be working class, while she was being interviewed by Fisher Stevens, her husband interjected "Be honest! What car did your dad drive you to school in?", and she was forced to admit "OK, in the 1980s my dad had a Rolls-Royce". [1] 81.100.4.88 (talk) 16:02, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
- This fact wasn't here until she mentioned it in the documentary. Also, if her dad as you claim sang in two bands and this woman is known for being in a band, why not add that fact? That makes more sense, as we can see from where or why was it fostered. SeleneMarie (talk) 23:33, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
- @SeleneMarie I've not 'claimed' anything, it's from a published book. Reads like you don't want a clear and definite answer, though you've got one. Whatever had happened before, it's cleared up now with solid information from a reputable source. That's your question dealt with. You could have done it yourself with an internet search. ToaneeM (talk) 20:39, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
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- ^ London Review of Books, 18 July 2024, p.25.
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