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I'm going to add the Manfred Mann stuff to this article, as it was a major theme running through his entire career, but as always it's hard to find the best sources on stuff you've read a long time ago and have memorized. Here's one [1], but I'm sure I'll find an even better one. Jules TH 16 (talk) 21:54, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
If it's not covered outside Wikipedia, if we're just relying on individual editors' sightings, it should be removed. Apart the inclusion violating WP:V and WP:OR, it's not worth noting. That edit was a good one.
I don't think a Facebook posting cuts it as a reliable source. TJRC (talk) 06:51, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
We're talking about a Top Ten hit based on a Holst composition. It's absolutely notable - possibly the most likely piece of Holst's music that anyone who's not into classical music will have heard.
The edit was not a good one because it arbitrarily cut out entire chunks of the article simply because nobody had bothered to source them. The decent thing to do is to at least have a cit-needed tag before obliterating information.
It's such a well-known fact, at least among people knowledgeable about the Earth Band, that there aren't that many primary sources I can find on Google. Things like this https://arcana.fm/2015/02/01/the-borrowers-manfred-manns-earth-band-joybringer/ (see the comment: "We all knew this connection with The Planets Suite and enjoyed that cross pollination of music.") or the entries on Secondhandsongs / Whosampled will be rejected, I guess.
"It's a well-known fact" isn't sourcing though. You've listed a number of actual sources, and if they actually pan out (I can't verify the book; and some of the others may not meet WP:RS), it would be an okay addition.
This article periodically accumulates cruft and gets cleaned out. TJRC (talk) 21:49, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
