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I've removed the reference to the lyrics appearing "prophetic". She mentions planes in a song in 1981, and then at some point within the next 20 years or so, something happens that involves planes. That's a pretty weak case for being "prophetic". --Bonalaw 09:45, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I'm curious why the statement about Iran-Contra needs to be stated as opinion rather than fact. Iran contra was not something that happened in 1981 so the statement is false. The quote from Anderson has a cite, so I'm surpised "Citation needed" has been added. Please let me know how the prior statement could be construed as POV. --Myke Cuthbert 22:07, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Laurie was performing this song long before 1981, point and case, the "Word of Mouth" recording put out on Crown Point Press and some other private recordings going around from before then. Loscha
Why do the lyrics need to be pinned down to a specific event? The song is so obviously about the US as "Superman" in the Nietzschian sense. If you must have an event however, what about the Vietnam war, which finished just three years earlier, in 1975? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.143.63.86 (talk) 07:40, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Whilst is may be true that this was done by John Peel on his late night Radio 1 show, I specifically remember hearing it on Noel Edmonds' Sunday morning radio show, at the time the most listened-to radio show in the UK, when the track was played at full length. There was no introduction but after it finished, the DJ announced the name of the artist and track slowly and deliberately, three times. I suspect it was this event that propelled the track into the charts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aldermanhogg (talk • contribs) 04:17, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
I absolutely agree, the song was a hit because of Noel Edmonds; indeed I went out and bought the single after hearing it on the programme. John Peel played a vast amount of obscure music on his programme, the vast percentage of which never became hits. I have no idea whether he played 'O Superman' first, but his playing of it was not in any direct way responsible for it being a hit 203.114.139.60 09:16, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
8:21 is at least 90 seconds longer than any other 7", 45rpm record in my collection. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.4.202.8 (talk) 01:27, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
I thought the love, justice and force line was a reference to a Nietzsche quote on the topics. But I might be wrong as I couldn't find the original quote. Z o l t a r (talk) 21:59, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
I took out the "or heat," because she doesn't say that in the song. See for yourself at the 4:10 mark. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzYu88jIDYs 74.190.141.39 (talk) 03:37, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
This is a totally excellent article which does justice to the great piece of art, this song is IMO. Especially since it is put in context with Massenets opera and a wonderful audio fragment of Caruso to boot.
This song has fascinated me always, I just wanted to find the exact lyrics and bumped into this article. Couldn't dream of knowing so much context and exact info about it. Thanks again, sorry if it's not proper etiquette to write this here. Jepz11 (talk) 17:53, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
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82.3.43.43 (talk) 02:07, 7 October 2017 (UTC)v00n200 Remember she also mentions "smoking, or non-smoking". One of the twin towers was hit first, and was "smoking" before the other one.
Maybe it's conjecture, and I'm flying off at atangent, but I hear what I already want to hear, I guess.
I'd like to run this flag up the flagpole and see who salutes, anhow. . . .