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I am a married man, of 55 years of age, live in East Yorkshire, England, and have a life long interest in pop music. Specifically, over the past nine years, I have slowly compiled my own 'Pop Star Birthday File' database. It currently has over 3,800 individual entries, which has been painstakingly researched through more media than I care to remember. Subterfuge over actual birth details is a popular occupation by show businessmanagers, promoters, etc.
Consequently I quickly learned to check, double check, and triple check every piece of information that I uncovered regarding date of birth, place of birth, real full name and so on, of every artist.
I have not kept a note of exactly where each minutiae was uncovered, but I have a copious library of reference work (see below), and spend an inordinate amount of time trying to be as accurate as possible - frankly, I should get out more !
Indeed, at one time, I was a hospital radio presenter in East Yorkshire, where part of my weekly programme made use of the forthcoming week’s entries in that 'Pop Star Birthday File'.
Should you care to examine my input to Wikipedia, you will find that it once primarily focused on information, relating to popular musicstar's birth details etc. I can not pretend I am always correct - indeed I welcome alternative evidence to confound my so-called 'facts'. More recently my input has concentrated on enhancing, expanding and referencing articles on many music related articles.
Just drop me a line, either via Wikipedia, or through e-mail at - derekrbullamore@yahoo.co.uk
November 2009
This editor is a Veteran Editor IV and is entitled to display this Gold Editor Star.
Reference books
British Hit Singles - 8th Edition - ISBN 0-85112-941-2
British Hit Singles - 14th Edition - ISBN 0-85156-156-X
British Hit Singles - 16th Edition - ISBN 085112-190-X
British Hit Singles & Albums - 19th Edition - ISBN 1-904994-10-5
The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums - 3rd Edition - ISBN 0-85112-888-2
The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums - 7th Edition - ISBN 0-85112-619-7
Guinness Rockopedia - ISBN 0-85112-072-5
The Book of Golden Discs - 2nd Edition - ISBN 0-214-20512-6
The Great Rock Discography - 5th Edition - ISBN 1-84195-017-3
The Blues - From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray - ISBN 1-85868-255-X
The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits - ISBN 0-85112-250-7
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music - ISBN 1-904041-96-5
NME Rock 'N' Roll Years - CN 5585
All that stuff
The Barnstar of Diligence
Derek R Bullamore, I award you the Barnstar of Diligence for your months of outstanding hard work furnishing Wikipedia with the facts of musical life, and in particular for your sharing of new information in a true community spirit. It warms my heart. Vinoir 19:17, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Rdbrewster has awarded you The Original Barnstar for your excellent contribution to Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers! Thanks, Derek! My original gave hardly any detail (because I didn't know that much about them). Now, thanks to you, it is a great article! Rdbrewster♪♫♪ 17:35, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
An overdue Music Award, in particular my appreciation for your efforts keeping an eye on Shirley Bassey. (I can't take my eye off her, either.) Nyctc7 (talk) 04:07, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
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