Talk:Nightingales & Bombers

Same thing said twice

The first paragraph says the same thing twice in two different ways. In fact, there are two ways the first paragraph says what it does, in one way and then another. Worth rewriting? --Matt Westwood 13:50, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't read it that way. The first description (in quotes) is taken, I think, from the sleeve notes of the Manfred Mann album. It's factually incorrect. The recording was not made by an ornithologist but by a BBC sound engineer (who may or may not have been an ornithologist). The bombers were not 'enemy bombers' either - I've seen that description attached to the track notes elsewhere on the web. So the second sentence is important because it sets the record (groan) straight but it doesn't supercede the first which quotes the band's take on the source material. That's a difference I failed to appreciate the first time round when I altered the original quotation from the album to make it factually correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by McWrite (talk • contribs) 17:35, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]