Talk:The Heart of Rock & Roll

A fact from The Heart of Rock & Roll appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 March 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Blender magazine called the Huey Lewis and the News hit song "The Heart of Rock & Roll" one of the "50 Worst Songs Ever"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/March.

Wikipedia

Removal of dubious claims

I removed: The lyrics part now sung as "The heart of rock and roll is still beating" was originally going to be "The heart of rock and roll is in Cleveland," in honor of a great concert the band had played in the city. The intro to the song is a piano being played backwards. because they are referenced from another wiki, that claims to be official from the band. also "The intro to the song is a piano being played backwards" is pure invention of that wiki, the intro of the song is a the playing on tom and bass drums to simulate a heartbeat; to verify the false claim it's only necessary to see the videos of the song (live and official), tom drums and bass drum are the heartbeat at the beginning of the song.--201.247.28.6 (talk) 04:17, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Weren't these claims backed by references to the bands official newsletter?! 24.191.186.13 (talk) 17:17, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The claim cited/cites HLNwiki, see below. - SummerPhD^v2.0 17:52, 21 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Self-censored word

"Really kicks 'em in the..." At the same point in the video, the red-clad LA rocker girl shakes it. AnonMoos (talk) 18:47, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

HLNwiki

This source is a wiki, which generally indicates it is user generated content. The original site is down, most recently archived here. Actually, that's an archive of the site's "About" page, which says nothing. In fact, there is nothing to indicate who wrote this.

Is it "official"? It doesn't say. In the FAQ we have "Is there a fan club for HLN? Yes, it's called NewsLine II and is currently being incorporated into this website." This indicates that wiki, whatever it may be, is associated with a fan club. It does not follow, however, that this fan club is a) "official" or b) that the associated newsletter is reliable.

There was some discussion of this before and one item from that source was removed in June 2009. Other trivia citing the same source remained and the claim removed was restored 6 months later by an IP claiming this is "the official newsletter".

With nothing to support the claim that this source is reliable, I am removing it and all of the trivia attributed to it. If anyone can show the source is reliable, I'm all ears. - SummerPhD^v2.0 18:11, 21 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It is (well WAS) their official newsletter but it's honestly gonna be near impossible to find any way of verifying that for the sake of this wiki's standards. 98.220.44.26 (talk) 17:00, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Knight Rider

As heard on Knight Rider in Season 3, Episode 7 "Rotten Apples". EarlyBird89 (talk) 03:34, 23 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]