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==The term 'Britpop'==
Did he really coin this term. Our [[Britpop]] article attributes it to [[John Robb]] in 1989. Admittedly neither Blue nor Oasis existed then, but Robb was discussing similar bands.--[[User:MartinUK|MartinUK]] ([[User talk:MartinUK|talk]]) 07:29, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
:but are they bands that would later be regarded as britpop pioneers once the term became popular? If you do a search of google books in the 1980s you can see the term was used infrequently over the years to refer to a variety of things. I wonder if Robb was just the one of these that happened to be closest to the later popular use? <span style="background:lightgrey;font-family:Courier;border:2px dashed #000;">[[User:JMiall|<span style="color:purple;">JMiall</span>]][[User talk:JMiall|<span style="color:red;">₰</span>]]</span> 08:31, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

==Sexuality==
Gay?[[User:87.113.69.113|87.113.69.113]] 00:48, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
No, he's married.  --[[User:Whoosher|Whoosher]] 21:26, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

==Ubiquity on TV lists shows==

I vote the comment "His career at present consists of appearing as an opinionated talking head on TV list shows" stays (further to the recent edits). I made a sarcastic comment on this a while ago which was rightly deleted but putting it politely like this is acceptable, as it is all he is known to be doing these days. --[[User:Thoughtcat|Thoughtcat]] 13:31, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Erm, apart from a Radio 2 show you mean?  Oh, and a 6 Music show aswell?
--[[User:Juux|Juux]] 20:05, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

"Thoughtcat" is right. Maconie's boundless and seemingly inexhaustible endowment to these vexatious TV list shows needs to be acknowledged: why not here? This is, after all, his Wikipedia page. Above, Juux rightly states that Maconie also works at Radio 2 and 6 Music (already in the article), but as the list shows are seemingly an immense wedge of Maconie's oeuvre, why are they not included here? Maybe a fan of his (perhaps the man himself?) has removed them as they perhaps create the unwanted impression of Maconie as some kind of media whore.

==Clarification re year & place of birth==

Stuart's categorised as being a 1960 birth & as a person from Wigan. However in the first para, his DOB is given as 13/8/61 and his place of birth as Whiston. I know Whiston & Wigan are not that far apart but they are separate towns.

Can anyone clarify/correct as necessary? --[[User:Whoosher|Whoosher]] 08:56, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

:Stuart admits in his book "Pies and Prejudice" that he was born in Whiston Hospital for some unfathomable reason, but he has spent most of his life in Wigan. --[[User:138.253.45.182|138.253.45.182]] 13:09, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

::Year of birth was originally given as 1960 as per imdb. Other more reliable sources give 1961, so article and cat have been corrected. [[User:Cjc13|Cjc13]] ([[User talk:Cjc13|talk]]) 20:22, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

:::His DOB is now showing as 13/08/75, which surely can't be correct if he was working as a teacher in 1987. Clarification/correction anyone? [[User:GBev1987|GBev1987]] ([[User talk:GBev1987|talk]]) 13:18, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

:::Does he give a date in his autobiography? Online sources suggest 13 August 1961, but none look reliable. [[User:Martinevans123|Martinevans123]] ([[User talk:Martinevans123|talk]]) 13:37, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

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