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In Special:diff/old/1153261822|Trovatore edit of 06:14, 5 May 2023]], "he had simply sung" is reverted to "he simply sang".
Regarding the comment
... he sang the new lyrics from then on. The ending point is his death, which is not really available as a point in time to end the past perfect
the documentary doesn't know about his death, but we do. Surely you are not suggesting that this grammar constitutes a case of WP:SYNTH!
Saying "he sang" really only tells us he sang it that way once. The perfect tense is consistent with something done over a period of time, e.g. multiple times, and past perfect means it's no longer being done, whereas the simple past tense suggests something that was only done once. Fabrickator (talk) 16:18, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
I went to a lot of effort to establish these - their identities are almost as crucial to the Lightfoot sound as those of the players themselves. However, someone decided to delete all but one of them, claiming to me on their chat page [sic]: "it's not S.O.P. for personnel sections, I removed the brand names and my rationale is article consistency".
In case a supervening editor sees fit to overrule this deletion, here are the brand-name credits again, in full:
Birdman euston (talk) 23:56, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
The forms of participation (for example, instruments) should be written in lowercase (except for proper nouns such as Hammond organ or Dobro), delimited by commas, and linked on the first occurrence only.- FlightTime (open channel) 00:05, 21 June 2023 (UTC)