Talk:Rick Allen (drummer)

Full name/Birth name?

Is the full name shown (Richard John Cyril “Rick” Allen) known to be correct?

The ASCAP publishing database lists “Richard Alisdair Allen” as co-writer of multiple Def Leppard songs. Mrpaulin (talk) 03:54, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Jenkem?

In looking at the jenkem article I am not finding any references to its use before the 1990s. Additionally, the claim in the article that Allen was under the influence of this substance is unsubstantiated. Danaseilhan (talk) 07:23, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

At one point in the article, it says:

and when Joe Elliott got a call saying that Rick lost his arm in a car crash, he was stunned to know so he drove...

"[S]tunned to know"? Not good use of English. Tessaroithmost (talk) 19:20, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Merge of Duplicate Article

At Rick Allen (Def Leppard drummer) the following text

Rick Allen was the drummer in the British rock band Def Leppard. He lost an arm in an accident but still plays for the band with one arm

is the result of the following edits

• (cur) (last) 19:25, 2005 July 24 68.105.105.179
• (cur) (last) 23:53, 2005 February 18 Rich Farmbrough m
• (cur) (last) 18:17, 2004 October 29 Mike Hackney

I am merging the histories but leaving it to those more familiar to do whatever is called for with the text preserved here (and in the Page history).
--Jerzy•t 06:02 & 06:22, 2005 August 21 (UTC)

Huh?

The article says, "Doctors had reattached his left arm, but due to infection it was removed again. Rick Allen left the hospital three and a half weeks after he was taken in, even though the situation he was in was expected to last for six months." That doesn't make sense. Does this mean that, after six months, was Rick expected to have grown a new arm? Because that's what it says. --Trweiss (talk) 19:25, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Drug Addiction, Alcoholism and Spousal Abuse

The article is now better written but it’s a bit of a whitewash, more like the biography you’d find in a record label press kit. There’s no mention of his drug or alcohol addictions or history of domestic violence – both of which are a matter of legal record. It’s referred to in another Wikipedia article and a quick Google search turned up the following links:[1] and [2]. I’d expand the article myself but it should really be done by someone who has a deeper knowledge of the subject; I just happened to recall reading about his arrest when it happened in the mid-90s. Martan (talk) 13:10, 24 August 2008 (UTC) Oh do it!! Victuallers (talk) 20:49, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

childhood

sheesh, do we really need to know that this guy played drums on pots and pans as a kid?? him and every other non-famous person on earth. MrGears (talk) 16:01, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

rick allen

rick allen became one of the best drummers alive to acomplish his goal he set out his live of being a drummer but then came the day of the accident rick had lost his left arm in aa car accident