A fact from Michelle Rocca appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 August2007. The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Michelle Rocca, longtime girlfriend of singer Van Morrison, was the first woman to appear on one of Morrison's album covers since his then-wife Janet Minto in 1971?
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Year of birth was taken from C. Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence? p. 455: "the pair met ...in the summer of 1992, though the striking thirty-year old former Miss Ireland..."
In Rogan, No Surrender, p. 408, Michele is quoted as saying: "I've been rearing children since I was 20." She won the Miss Ireland contest in 1980 and according to Rogan married Devine the following year-(1981). Rogan's book, p.409, also says: "Rocca, like himself (Van Morrison) was born under the sign of Virgo"-so that would make her birth year, 1961 if her exact age was listed in the-summer of 1992 as 30-so I changed it. I have often found that newspapers are really inaccurate with age and dates, unfortunately. Agadant14:47, 20 September 2007 (UTC)Reply
Should be considered a reliable source. Why not? He's noted as a biographer and is known to have worked on the Van Morrison biography over a period of 20 years.Agadant (talk) 01:52, 23 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
Doesn't matter. Wikipedia doesn't (and shouldn't) only use subject-approved biographies. What matters is the reliability and reputation of the author. --NeilNtalk to me13:22, 23 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
