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In September 2011 John has made the decision to finish working with Carlos.
In October 2011 the group was joined by Kenny “Krayzee” Lewis, known from collaboration with C.C.Catch, Touché and Mark ‘Oh.
Late in the year 2011 John has made the decision to finish working with "Krayzee". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hmarskiy II (talk • contribs) 12:57, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
This page has maintained neutrality for an extended period of time - thanks to coherent & mutually respectful work of a number of contributors. Disruptors attempting to thwart this process will not be tolerated. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.253.211.174 (talk) 14:12, 3 February 2007 (UTC).
This page has become a subject of systematic vandalism by a user from Holland who deliberately obliterates neutral info on this page and conveniently replaces it with biased nonsense. Protection of the article has been requested. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.14.61.84 (talk) 00:51, 14 February 2007 (UTC).
Hi - I noticed the dates of birth have been changed - would someone kindly correct them as they make no sense at the moment. Many thanks, Rob in London. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.243.165.181 (talk) 10:00, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
I saw the other day this version offered for sale on ebay, which went up for... over $500(!) before it got pulled. I don't if that was real or just a work of some scammer, but one thing is clear for sure: there are people out there who know and appreciate the real vocalist of Bad Boys Blue - 20 year after he was kicked out from the group... and are willing to shell out a few hundred bucks just to hear this voice on the track. What do you know? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.14.54.187 (talk) 20:44, 2 May 2007 (UTC).
Please refrain from future non-constructive alterations to the article that has been well maintained for over a year. Repeated alterations of similar nature will constitute vandalism to the article and will be treated as such.
If you concider having an image of Bad Boys Blue with John McInerney, Andrew Thomas and Kevin McCoy in it a vandalism then you might want to familiarize yourself with what the members of Bad Boys Blue look like. First of all, vandalism is when one replaces the correct information with the wrong or when adds an irrational information. In my case, however, I did not do any of the above. Second of all, the proper nouns in wikipedia are to be double bracketted for redirection purposes. Harout72
P.S. McCoy joined BBB after the release of "Follow the light" (the last album to include Mo Russel), therefore he appeared only on "Tonite" album.
FYI, With all the due respect, not too long ago, we had an idiot screwing BBB page with claims that Andrew Thomas is the lead vocalist who replaced Trevor Taylor in 87. Having said that, I would hope that you, Harout72, can contribute more to the article rather than your Russel/McCoy nonsense.
No one, except you, knows that Mo Russel's role was temporary and quite remote between 95-99. What "we" instead all know is that Russel revived the band back in 1995 with coming very close to challenging McInerney's spot on lead vocals and as a composer as well. With the group's return to Coconut, Russel got progressively sidelined, just like Andrew Thomas did. That was the reason for Russel's departure. Your continued attempts to denigrate Russel contribution/appearance can leave one wondering as to whether you are really so innocently uninformed.
An IP-hopper - turned - Atbbb user vandalized the page at least 10 times as of today. After monitoring the page for some time, it is clear what this vandal is doing on daily basis. His intent is to disrupt the article and twist it in the way he/she feels fit. Not a single edit of the user had been constructive. The page should be protected to keep vandals like Atbbb away. Esoteriqa 15:13, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
I can understand why some editors want to revert some of the changes made by the now-blocked COI user BAD BOYS BLUE. But you can't just revert to the version of the article from before those changes were made, because other changes have been made since then. Also, the edits made by user BAD BOYS BLUE were not entirely vandalism. Some of the changes removed some blatant promotional spam, and fixed some other problems like inline external links, and to put that back in now would be a mistake.
I'm afraid at this point the best you can do is go through the article section by section. A bulk revert to some point in the past isn't going to work. Rees11 (talk) 20:50, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
You may want to read Wikipedia:Ownership of articles. Rees11 (talk) 15:11, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
I have locked the article after receiving a complaint, reviewing the article, and deciding that Esoteriqa's version is not well sourced enough to comple with WP:BLP. It won't be unlocked until that version is better sourced. The new version can be drafted at /New. There are also problems with the new version linking to copyrighted works on Youtube - ensure this doesn't happen, please. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 16:20, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
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File:Bad Boys Blue - Heartbeat album cover 1986.jpg needs to be removed from the artist infobox as a non-fair use of an album cover per Wikipedia:Non-free content. Aspects (talk) 23:24, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
I bought a remix album at amazon.com entitled "Rarities Remixed", which is not in the list. But why? --77.118.139.242 (talk) 13:30, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
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File:Bad Boys Blue - Heartbeat album cover 1986.jpg needs to be removed from the artist infobox because the image was deleted per a File for deletion discussion. Aspects (talk) 21:29, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
Is everyone calmer now?andycjp (talk) 04:04, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
Charismatic Trevor Taylor provided his unique lead vocal for the group's early, signature defining, hit singles including You're A Woman, Pretty Young Girl, and I Wanna Hear Your Heartbeat, as well as for the entire first two albums. He essentially owns the credit for placing Bad Boys Blue on the "map" with his unique vocal presentation style. However, a second 1987 single Come Back And Stay, from the 3rd album, no longer featured him on lead vocal. Although the track was originally recorded as demo with Trevor Taylor's voice, the producers subjectively chose John McInerney's version. A major pretext which prompted the switch was the song by the Pet Shop Boys, called It's a Sin, which was released a few months prior to Come Back And Stay. The Bad Boys Blue producers made the sound of Come Back And Stay in the image of the Pet Shop Boys song. However, It's a Sin, which already at the time scored very high on many European charts was sung by a voice that was much higher than that of Trevor Taylor's. Hence came the idea to give the song to John McInerney, who also had a higher voice - in order to ensure a greater degree of similarity between the two songs. The Bad Boys Blue producers in a way hoped that it would create a greater chance of success for Come Back And Stay release. This, in turn, created tension within the group which ultimately lead to Trevor Taylor's departure, who understandably did not wish to accept the changes. A noteworthy fact is that Trevor Taylor did not leave the group right away following the switch, and stayed with the group for a whole year, during which he was incrementally phased out from his position of the front-man. During that transitional period his participation as the lead singer dropped first to 60% and then to 20% of songs sung on the 3rd and the 4th albums, respectively. That move was not incidental, for it was a key strategy implemented by the producers to ensure survivability and continuity of their project, that is to make sure in the public eye that both Taylor and McInerney were still present in the group, only that their respective positions had been switched, where the fans were now expected to become accustomed to seeing Taylor appear in the shadow of McInerney. Only after McInerney appeared on enough of new tracks as lead singer, Taylor could finally leave the group. This move was made possible by contractual obligations established by the Bad Boys Blue producers which legally prevented Trevor Taylor from exiting the band prematurely (that is, not until the transition period was completed), and therefore the producers were guaranteed to have a smooth continuation of their project. Had this transition been abrupt, namely if Trevor Taylor was allowed to leave the group right away as he intended to (in order to avoid a soon-to-be established stigma of him being perceived as demoted from his original role), the McInerney-lead collective would have experienced similar problems in the area of public acknowledgment that the formation of the late Andrew Thomas (see below) was facing. However, it is important to recognize that a mere substitution of vocalists on the release of Come Back And Stay was not the culprit itself, for it did not really account for Trevor Taylor's wish to promptly leave the group after a seemingly single substitution incident. That's because the release of the song was just an opportunity, an excuse so to speak, for the producers to remove Trevor Taylor for good from his being the front-man. This stems from the fact that, despite the group's massive popularity, the producers nevertheless were not particularly happy with Trevor Taylor's unique representation of the group as the lead singer, who was the only member of the original trio to regularly contribute his own material for the albums, and whose overall peculiar sound and singing style was broadcasting the group's image in a way that was different from the one subjectively envisioned for the Bad Boys Blue by the producers. In other words, the producers were determined to have their project portrayed solely as they saw fit, and the release of Come Back And Stay was their venue of implementation of the permanent switch - towards the singer who would be more conforming to their idiosyncratic ideas. Such an action on the producers' part was not uniformly accepted throughout the fan base, as it is generally believed that a significant portion of fans was lost following the switch of lead vocalists. After leaving Bad Boys Blue, Trevor Taylor had been involved at some point in various projects, such as Street Noise and Osazuwas, and more recently in Supa T and Umoya, whereas John McInerney went on to perform lead vocal on the majority of Bad Boys Blue's output.
...Lionscitygl (talk) 20:50, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Due to the level of protection i cannot make this minor edit myself so:
The link Zoo Entertainment needs to be changed to Zoo Entertainment (record label) due to a disambiguation of Zoo Entertainment.
Thanks, Salavat (talk) 20:25, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, could the admins please add this? Thanks. -- Frous (talk) 16:29, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
==See also==
* [[List of best-selling music artists in Finland]]
Please add uk:Bad Boys Blue to the article --Perohanych (talk) 19:16, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
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Can you please change the line-up information. Should be like this: 2009-2011
2011-2012
2012-Present
Source: The official Bad Boys Blue website: http://www.badboysblue.info/ Oneandmillion (talk) 20:30, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
March 2014, still no mention of Edith and Sylvia on the article page. In youtube videos it is obvious that there are female singers in the group. http://www.badboysblue.eu has up-to-date info.
Not done: The information was added briefly in January 2012 only to be removed in March. The user who removed the information has continued to edit this article, most recently last December, so it would be better to take up the change with that editor, Lionscitygl. Thanks, Celestra (talk) 03:42, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
Pls, review the articles that I have created about BBB's albums. I wanna cover their all studio albums. Later, I want to write articles about Taylor Trevor and Tony Hendrik -- the initial info is in the Russian wiki. Should we write about John?
Best regards, Lamro (talk) 12:18, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
The photo needs to be captioned as John McInerney. At present, readers unfamiliar with the band will not know who it is. --70.194.102.24 (talk) 01:56, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
When is his birthday? In some sources May 20, 1946 and in some May 25, 1946. What is right and what is wrong? --108.185.187.168 (talk) 05:47, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
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