Talk:Thank You for Being a Friend

Popular song?

popular song??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.187.181.65 (talk) 05:04, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Changing the format

Thank You for Being a Friend" is a popular song written by Andrew Gold. He recorded it for his third album, All This and Heaven Too, and the single version reached number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. the first sentance is a opinion. I am changing it.--Kopicz (talk) 00:37, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Featured on the notorious Wearside Jack/Yorkshire Ripper serial killer hoax tape

In Britain the Golden Girls theme version is the better known one (the series was shown on Channel 4 there). The Andrew Gold version meanwhile (reaching only 42 there) is probably best known due to the hoaxer dubbed from his Geordie accent "Wearside Jack" (later unmasked) including the song on the taunting cassette tape which he anonymously sent to police, and which they then believed to have come from the real attacker (they then dismissing any suspect who didn't have that accent - thereby allowing the real attacker with his Yorkshire accent to escape detection and continue the spree). The related Wiki page on that topic does reference the song - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearside_Jack#Message — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr gobrien (talk • contribs) 20:59, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Freddie Mercury did not sing on any Andrew Gold song ever

There is a persistent myth that Freddie Mercury sang back up on the Andrew Gold song "Never Let Her Slip Away". This is a total myth. All of the pages who reference it all reference back to each other, i.e., it's a circular reference with no origin, like "you say I said it and I say you said it". I read an interview by the producer of the album, Brock Walsh, which you can Google yourself and he said he also heard the myth and it's not true. Being the producer, he would know whether this happened or not. He said that neither he nor Andrew had ever met Freddie Mercury. I have even contacted people associated with Gold's official website to acknowledge Walsh's statement and they refuse to acknowledge it because, in my opinion, it brings a lot of notoriety to Andrew Gold by being affiliated with Freddie Mercury even if it didn't happen, and that gets more hits on his website. PhilMaglassup (talk) 04:23, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]