Nick Holt is the author of numerous books on football and other sports, and numerous highly rated quiz books on a variety of topics. He also writes fiction under a different name. Nick lives with his wonderfully supportive wife, (also Nic!) and their cats in Hastings.
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1 Battles; Ian Williams. 2 I Am Kloot; ‘Over My Shoulder’. 3 Future Islands; Samuel T Herring. 4 Dan Auerbach; Patrick Carney. 5 ‘The horror (here) . . .’; Total Life Forever. 6 Under the Blacklight; The Elected. 7 ‘Post Break-Up Sex’; English Graffiti. 8 Lykke Li; Wounded Rhymes. 9 Michigan (he has since added only Illinois, saying that his earlier claim was a joke the music press took too seriously); Carrie & Lowell. 10 Poliça; Channy Leaneagh. 11 Klara and Johanna. 12 Lost in the Dream; An Ocean. 13 The Wave Pictures; Billy Childish. 14 Midlake; Antiphon. 15 Dave Grohl; Mark Lanegan.
16 Fat White Family; Mark E. Smith of the Fall (in ‘I Am Mark E Smith’). 17 Dry The River; ‘in the best way possible’. 18 ‘Munich’; ‘Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors’. 19 St Paul and the Broken Bones; Half the City. 20 Django Django; Born Under Saturn. 21 Band of Skulls; Diamonds and Pearls. 22 Christine and the Queens; Chaleur Humaine; the UK release has some songs re-sung in English and a couple of new English-language numbers. 23 War On Drugs; The Violators. 24 Frightened Rabbit; Painting of a Panic Attack. 25 Augustines; Rise Ye Sunken Ships. 26 Hozier; Sinéad O›Connor. 27 Depression Cherry; the band (all two of them) are from Baltimore, where The Wire is set. 28 Alabama Shakes; Boys & Girls. 29 Johnny Marr; Isaac Brock. 30 Beirut; trumpet.
1 Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; Dame Vera Lynn. 2 They are all on the cover of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which was designed and composed by the two artists. 3 ‘Eleanor Rigby’; ‘Yellow Submarine’. 4 Cellophane; marshmallow pies. 5 George Harrison wrote and sang them all; ‘Within You, Without You’ was also George’s. 6 Four thousand; it is a line from ‘A Day in the Life’. 7 Paul McCartney; The Beach Boys’ ‘California Girls’, whose chorus and lyrics it echoes. 8 Pepperland; the Little Blue Meanies. 9 Sir George Martin; piano and other keyboards. 10 Let It Be; on the roof of the Apple building in Savile Row, central London. 11 Richard Lester; A Hard Day’s Night. 12 ‘You’re Sixteen’ (it seemed innocent then, but not in this post-Yewtree age); Johnny Burnette. 13 They are the opening songs on their first eleven studio albums, so ‘Two of Us’ (from the twelfth, Let It Be) completes the set. 14 ‘It Don’t Come Easy’; The Concert for Bangladesh organised by George Harrison. 15 ‘When I’m Sixty-Four’; Vera, Chuck and Dave.
16 ‘Handle With Care’; Nelson Wilbury. 17 With the Beatles; Chuck Berry. 18 All Things Must Pass; ‘If Not For You’. 19 ‘You Really Got a Hold on Me’; ‘Dizzy Miss Lizzy’. 20 Dark Horse; ‘Got My Mind Set on You’. 21 ‘Penny Lane’; ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’. 22 Imagine and Double Fantasy. 23 Sitar; Ravi Shankar. 24 ‘Imagine’; ‘Jealous Guy’. 25 Revolver; 1966. 26 Gideon’s Bible; piggies. 27 John Lennon’s claim that the band had become ‘bigger than Jesus’. 28 ‘What’s That You’re Doing’ and ‘Ebony and Ivory’. 29 The Quarrymen were a Liverpool band started by John Lennon with school friends and later joined by Paul McCartney and George Harrison; Ringo Starr left Rory Storm and the Hurricanes to replace Pete Best in the Beatles. 30 Flaming Pie and New.
1 Rich Kids; Midge Ure. 2 Barenaked Ladies; ‘One Week’. 3 Thin Lizzy (Phil Lynott) and the Sex Pistols (Paul Cook and Steve Jones). 4 Innocent Man; Wrecking Ball. 5 She Works Hard for the Money; Musical Youth. 6 ‘Free Money’; Penetration. 7 Good Kid, m.A.A.d.; Jay Rock. 8 Bruno Mars; The Queen. 9 Marco Pirroni; ‘Made of Money’. 10 At the Sorbonne in Paris; (Let’s Make Lots of Money). 11 Mötley Crüe; Sex Pistols. 12 The Dark Side of the Moon; David Gilmour. 13 ‘Take the Money and Run’; they robbed a bank in El Paso. 14 A diamond ring; vocal harmonies. 15 Sting; Brothers in Arms.
16 ‘Material Girl’; Marilyn Monroe. 17 Dizzee Rascal; ‘Dirtee Cash’. 18 U2; Rolling Stones. 19 ‘Money Changes Everything’; The Brains: Gray was their singer. 20 ‘Money (That’s What I Want)’; Tamla Motown. 21 U2 and Elton John. 22 Mercedes Benz (the title of the song); a colour TV. 23 ‘Money Honey’; The Drifters. 24 Alice Cooper (when the name still meant the band, not the singer); ‘School’s Out’. 25 Cole Porter; Frank Sinatra. 26 Notorious B.I.G.; Puff Daddy. 27 Daryl Hall and John Oates. 28 50 Cent; Get Rich or Die Tryin’. 29 ‘Money’s Too Tight (To Mention)’; Frantic Elevators. 30 The rights to the Beatles song catalogue; Michael Jackson, who sold it in 2006 to offset his rising debts.
1 The Kinks; Something Else by the Kinks. 2 Simon and Garfunkel; Sounds of Silence. 3 Johnny Cash; Live at San Quentin 4 The Velvet Underground & Nico; The Velvet Underground & Nico. 5 The Beach Boys; Pet Sounds. 6 Them; The Angry Young Them. 7 Creedence Clearwater Revival; Green River. 8 Van Morrison; Astral Weeks. 9 Led Zeppelin; I. 10 Love; Forever Changes. 11 Isaac Hayes; Hot Buttered Soul. 12 Jefferson Airplane; Surrealistic Pillow. 13 Fairport Convention; Liege & Lief. 14 The Zombies; Odessey and Oracle. 15 The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band; Gorilla.
16 The Jimi Hendrix Experience; Electric Ladyland. 17 Phil Spector; A Christmas Gift For You. 18 The MC5; Kick Out the Jams. 19 The Mamas and the Papas; If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears. 20 The Beatles; Please Please Me. 21 Rolling Stones; Beggars’ Banquet. 22 The Monkees; More of the Monkees. 23 The Byrds; Fifth Dimension. 24 The Small Faces; Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake. 25 Aretha Franklin; Lady Soul. 26 Cream; Goodbye. 27 The Who; Tommy. 28 Otis Redding; Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul. 29 Leonard Cohen; Songs from a Room. 30 Dusty Springfield; A Girl Called Dusty.
1 Bill Haley and his Comets. 2 Lonnie Donegan; Van Morrison. 3 Johnny Kidd and the Pirates; Mick Green. 4 Roy Orbison; ‘Claudette’. 5 Hank Marvin; ‘Apache’. 6 Bo Diddley; ‘Who Do You Love?’ 7 Del Shannon; The Travelling Wilburys. 8 The Teddy Bears; Phil Spector. 9 ‘Cathy’s Clown’; Phil and Don. 10 ‘Johnny Remember Me’; ‘Telstar’. 11 ‘Lucille’; B.B. King – the story goes that it helped remind him of a foolish act as a young man, when he ran back into a burning building to retrieve his guitar. 12 ‘Peggy Sue’; She got married (in Holly’s song, ‘Peggy Sue Got Married’). 13 Johnny and the Hurricanes; ‘Red River Rock’. 14 ‘Johnnie Ray’; ‘Come On Eileen’. 15 ‘Sweet Little Sixteen’; ‘My Ding-a-Ling’.
16 Loads of Elvis-stamped letters were sent to fictitious addresses in the hope that the mail service would stamp them ‘return to sender’. 17 ‘An American Trilogy’; the American Civil War. 18 ‘Jailhouse Rock’; it was the thousandth UK number one. 19 ‘All Shook Up’; ‘Jailhouse Rock’. 20 RCA Victor; Colonel Tom Parker. 21 ‘A Little Less Conversation’; Ocean’s Eleven. 22 Love Me Tender; Hawaii – it was screened as Aloha from Hawaii! 23 ‘My Way’; Paul Anka. 24 G.I. Blues and Blue Hawaii. 25 ‘Way Down’; ‘The Wonder of You’. 26 Dire Straits; On Every Street. 27 ‘Elvis has left the building . . .’ (in Zappa’s case ‘just left the building’); Tiny Tim released ‘I Saw Mr Presley Tiptoeing Through the Tulips’. 28 Marc Cohn; Cher. 29 A chip shop (‘There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis’; ‘A New England’. 30 George Michael; Lennon.
1 China Crisis. 2 Teenage Fanclub. 3 Mink Deville. 4 Paris (‘Une Nuit a Paris’). 5 Siamese Dream. 6 ‘Warszawa’ (Warsaw). 7 Mozambique. 8 ‘One Night in Bangkok’. 9 Toto. 10 ‘Cuba’. 11 Alphaville. 12 The Mamas & the Papas. 13 The band’s first hit was ‘Native New Yorker’. 14 They were ‘Going Back to My Roots’. 15 ‘Spanish Harlem’ (aka East Harlem). 16 San Francisco. 17 ‘Berlin Got Blurry’. 18 ‘I’m in Love with a German Film Star’. 19 The album title is Around the World in a Day. 20 ‘Holiday in Cambodia’. 21 ‘The Lebanon’. 22 Super Furry Animals. 23 ‘Vienna’ by Ultravox. 24 ‘All Around the World’. 25 ‘Massachusetts’. 26 Supergrass. 27 ‘Budapest’. 28 The Ramones. 29 Swedish House Mafia. 30 David Bowie. 31 Andorra. 32 ‘Australia’. 33 ‘Bloodbuzz Ohio’. 34 The Stranglers, on ‘Goodbye Toulouse’, ‘Dagenham Dave’, ‘Sweden’ and ‘Dead Loss Angeles’. 35 Boards of Canada. 36 ‘Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)’. 37 To the 5 Boroughs. 38 ‘Mambo Italiano’. 39 Be Here Now. 40 ‘Paris, Munich’.
1 Kajagoogoo. 2 Silversun Pickups. 3 The Blue Nile. 4 Shalamar. 5 Nine Black Alps. 6 Kasabian. 7 Gerry and the Pacemakers. 8 Alt-J. 9 Everything Everything. 10 The Mission. 11 Best Coast. 12 The Ting Tings.13 Blue Oyster Cult. 14 Maximo Park. 15 Royal Blood. 16 Scorpions. 17 Stornoway. 18 The Four Tops. 19 The Tourists. 20 Imagine Dragons. 21 War On Drugs. 22 The Dead Kennedys. 23 Weezer. 24 The Lighthouse Family. 25 Steel Pulse. 26 My Bloody Valentine. 27 A Certain Ratio. 28 Supertramp. 29 Powderfinger. 30 Fat White Family,
31 Odyssey. 32 Stereo MCs. 33 The Cramps. 34 Manfred Mann (not Manfred Mann’s Earthband, which came later and had a different line-up). 35 The Saw Doctors. 36 The Crickets (Buddy Holly’s band). 37 Freddie and the Dreamers. 38 Stone Temple Pilots. 39 Temples. 40 Colin Blunstone (formerly of the Zombies). 41 Hurricane #1. 42 Calexico. 43 The Levellers. 44 Westlife. 45 Reef. 46 Aztec Camera. 47 Saint Etienne. 48 Glasvegas. 49 The Lumineers. 50 Kitchens of Distinction. 51 Drive-By Truckers. 52 Doves. 53 Go West. 54 London Grammar. 55 Wild Beasts. 56 The Cars. 57 The Temper Trap. 58 The Au Pairs. 59 Spear of Destiny. 60 The Leisure Society,
1 Simon Bates; Classic FM. 2 Fun Lovin’ Criminals; Huey Morgan. 3 Radio Luxembourg; 208 MW. 4 ‘The Riverboat Song’; Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush. 5 Zoë Ball; she presents It Takes Two, having previously competed on Strictly Come Dancing. 6 Alan Freeman; Pick of the Pops. 7 Xfm; Johnny Vaughan. 8 Kenny Everett; Captain Kremmen. 9 Manchester; Damon Albarn. 10 The Old Grey Whistle Test; country and Americana music. 11 Terry Wogan; Lynn Bowles. 12 Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (Swap Shop is an acceptable answer); he resigned after Michael Lush died while rehearsing a stunt for the show. 13 Sara Cox; Comedy Dave (Dave Vitty). 14 Matt Everitt; Menswear. 15 Nick Grimshaw; The One Show.
16 Capital Gold; Jonathan Pearce, who presented Capital Gold Sportstime. 17 Tony Blackburn; I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here!. 18 Charlie Gillett; The Sound of the City. 19 Annie Nightingale; The Old Grey Whistle Test. 20 Gilles Peterson, Worldwide. 21 Heart FM; Emma Bunton. 22 MV Fredericia became MC Caroline, the host ship of Radio Caroline; it was named after Caroline Kennedy, John F Kennedy’s daughter. 23 Steve Wright, who has hosted shows called Steve Wright in the Afternoon on BBC Radios 1 and 2; Mr Angry was purportedly from Purley. 24 Marc Riley; The Fall. 25 Mark Lamarr; Never Mind the Buzzcocks. 26 John Peel; Bob Harris. 27 Jo Whiley; Simon Mayo. 28 Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, for Harry Enfield’s Television Programme. 29 Scott Mills; Mark Chapman (‘Chappers’). 30 Paul Gambaccini; America’s Greatest Hits.
1 Edgar Allan Poe; Julian Schnabel. 2 Max’s Kansas City, a New York nightclub; ‘I’m Waiting for the Man’. 3 Tom Tom Club; a cover of the Velvet Underground song ‘Femme Fatale’. 4 Jesse Jackson and Pope John Paul II (identified simply as ‘Pontiff’). 5 The 9/11 attacks; ‘Laurie’ is Laurie Anderson, Reed’s wife. 6 Delmore Schwartz; Andy Warhol, who died in 1987. 7 A version of the song featuring numerous guest singers was used on a video designed to showcase the diversity of the BBC’s music coverage; Trainspotting. 8 ‘Sweet Jane’; Mott the Hoople. 9 Metal Machine Music; The Creation of the Universe. 10 ‘Sister Ray’, sometimes referred to as the source of the ‘shoegaze’ scene; White Light/White Heat. 11 NYC Man; ‘Satellite of Love’. 12 Maureen ‘Mo’ Tucker; it was the first time since the break-up of the Velvet Underground that Tucker, Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison had appeared on record together. 13 Ecstasy; Fernando Saunders. 14 Street Hassle; Bruce Springsteen. 15 ‘Heroin’ appears on the first Velvet Underground album, while ‘Sex with Your Parents’ features on Set the Twilight Reeling.
16 ‘Like a bird on the wire; ‘Bird on the Wire’ features on Songs from a Room. 17 Kicking Against the Pricks; ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’. 18 Mick Harvey; Barry Adamson. 19 Harvest; a moon – in 1992, Young released Harvest Moon, a follow-up of sorts to Harvest. 20 ‘Heart of Gold’; ‘ . . . And I’m getting old’. 21 ‘Famous Blue Raincoat’; ‘Joan of Arc’. 22 Americana; ‘God Save the Queen’. 23 Abattoir Blues and The Lyre of Orpheus. 24 ‘Hallelujah’; Various Positions. 25 The Proposition; 20,000 Days on Earth. 26 Natural Born Killers; the Berlin Wall. 27 Living with War; ‘Let’s Impeach the President’. 28 Old Ideas; Popular Problems. 29 The Boys Next Door; Grinderman. 30 They’re all Neil Young live albums; Arc.
1 Breaking Glass; ‘Will You?’. 2 ‘Is Vic There?’ Department S was a sixties TV spy show. 3 Creedence Clearwater Revival; John Fogerty. 4 Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? ‘The View from the Afternoon’. 5 ‘Life On Mars?’ and ‘Where Are We Now?’. 6 ‘The Boy With the Arab Strap’; Isobel Campbell. 7 Oasis, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?; Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill. 8 Paul Young; David Bowie. 9 The Moody Blues; Justin Hayward. 10 ‘Do You Know the Way to San Jose?’; Dionne Warwick. 11 Who’s Next and Who Are You. 12 ‘Who Am I? (What’s My Name?). 13 Edward Tudor-Pole; Nobody — it was Bambi’s mum who was killed by a hunter. 14 Jimmy Ruffin; 1966. 15 Elvis Costello and the Attractions; Brinsley Schwarz.
Bonus tracks
1 ‘What Do I Get?’ Therapy?. 2 Frankie Lymon (and the Teenagers); ‘Why do birds sing so gay?’ 3 Eurythmics; Madonna. 4 ‘How Soon is Now?’ Charmed. 5 ‘Is There Something I Should Know’; ‘The Reflex’. 6 The Bees; Isle of Wight. 7 ‘Will You Love Me Tomorrow?’; Tapestry. 8 I Am A Bird Now; Rufus Wainwright. 9 ‘Where Did Our Love Go?’; David Ball. 10 ‘What Have I Done to Deserve This?’; Dusty Springfield. 11 ‘What’s a Girl To Do?’; Natasha Khan. 12 Drake; Robyn Rihanna Fenty. 13 ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’; The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. 14 Connie Francis; A Night in Casablanca. 15 ‘Does Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight)?’ ‘My Old Man’s a Dustman’.
1 Dillinger; the CB200 was his Honda motorcycle. 2 The I Threes; Bob Marley’s backing singers: Rita was his wife. 3 ‘Don’t worry ‘bout a thing, cause every little thing gonna be alright’. 4 ‘Don’t Turn Around’; Aswad is Arabic for black. 5 Bunny Wailer; Bob Marley. 6 Carlton and Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett; The Upsetters. 7 Burning Spear; a pre-war Jamaican politician and writer seen as a prophet by many Rastafarians. 8 ‘Young, Gifted and Black’ and ‘Pied Piper’. 9 Peter Tosh; Mick Jagger.10 The Lyceum; Babylon By Bus. 11 UB40 (Ali and Robin Campbell); Eddy Grant. 12 Bob Marley’s Legend; The Dark Side of the Moon. 13 Buju Banton; he is serving ten years for cocaine trafficking.14 Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer. 15 The Folkes Brothers; ‘Boombastic’.
16 Coventry; 2 Tone. 17 Dutty Rock; Sasha. 18 Burnin’; John Brown. 19 Chaka Demus & Pliers with ‘Twist & Shout’; ‘Tease Me’. 20 ‘Police and Thieves’; Junior Murvin. 21 Gregory Isaacs; The Cool Ruler. 22 Trenchtown; England. 23 ‘You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No)’; Rihanna. Penn originally released the song in the sixties in a much more basic, rocksteady style. 24 Prince Buster; All Stars. 25 Horace Andy; Massive Attack. 26 Uprising; Confrontation. 27 Finley Quaye; Edinburgh. 28 Trojan Records; skinheads. 29 The Paragons; John Holt. 30 Sun Is Shining; Soul Revolution.
1 ‘Maria’; Rage Against the Machine. 2 Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band; Thin Lizzy. 3 ‘Henrietta’; ‘Mistress Mabel’. 4 ‘Valerie’; Mark Ronson. 5 ‘Rhiannon’; ‘Sara’. 6 ‘Mary of the 4th Form’; ‘(I Never Loved) Eva Braun’. 7 ‘Jenny Was a Friend of Mine’; ‘Smile Like You Mean It’. 8 ‘Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)’; ‘Judy is a Punk’. 9 ‘Delilah’; the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. 10 ‘Suzanne’ and Marianne (on ‘So Long, Marianne’). 11 ‘Charlotte Sometimes’; ‘Charlotte the Harlot’. 12 ‘Geraldine’; ‘Euphoria, Take My Hand’. 13 Barry Manilow; Westlife. 14 Paolo Nutini and Robbie Williams. 15 Hot Chocolate; ‘Grace Kelly’.
16 ‘Gloria’ and ‘Iris (Hold Me Close)’. 17 Caroline, in ‘Sweet Caroline’ by Neil Diamond and ‘Caroline’ by Status Quo; ‘Cracklin’ Rosie’. 18 ‘Mustang Sally’; ‘Lay Down, Sally’. 19 Terrorvision; Smokie. 20 ‘Lucille’; ‘four hungry children and a crop in the field’. 21 Sham 69, ‘Hurry Up Harry’; the Stranglers, ‘(Don’t Bring) Harry’. 22 Charlie Brown; Mylo Xyloto. 23 Elton John; Bat for Lashes. 24 Jack and Diane; John Mellencamp. 25 Chuck Berry; Palma Violets. 26 ‘A Boy Named Sue’; it was recorded live at San Quentin State Prison. 27 Abba and the Brotherhood of Man. 28 The Undertones; Green Day on American Idiot. 29 ‘Jackie’; ‘Jackie Wilson Said (I’m in Heaven When You Smile)’. 30 Robert Palmer; Bryan Ferry.
1 Peter Green; Bob Welch. 2 Paul Rodgers; The Cosmos Rocks. 3 ‘Exogenesis’; ‘Uprising’. 4 The Valley, home of Charlton Athletic FC; the 1976 show entered The Guinness Book of World Records as the loudest concert in history. 5 ‘Helter Skelter’; ‘Desire’. 6 Willie Dixon; ‘Bring it on Home’. 7 ‘I Can’t Explain’; ‘I’m a Boy’. 8 ‘Supermassive Black Hole’; ‘Knights of Cydonia’. 9 George Michael and Lisa Stansfield. 10 The Joshua Tree; Anton Corbijn. 11 ‘Kashmir’; ‘Achilles Last Stand’. 12 ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’; it was re-released as a tribute to Freddie Mercury following his death. 13 The Dance; Say You Will. 14 War; ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’. 15 The album is officially untitled, but is commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV; the album cover doesn’t contain the band’s name or writing of any sort, apparently Jimmy Page’s response to the ordinary reviews received by the band’s previous album.
16 ‘Love, Reign o’er Me’, subtitled ‘Pete’s Theme’, and ‘Bell Boy (Keith’s Theme)’. 17 Flash Gordon; Highlander. 18 Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. 19 ‘Stockholm Syndrome’; ‘Thoughts of a Dying Atheist’. 20 ‘Vertigo’ and ‘Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own’. 21 ‘The Song Remains the Same’; Physical Graffiti. 22 Mick Fleetwood, the drummer, and John McVie, the bass player. 23 Palestrina; ‘Feeling Good’. 24 Made in Heaven; Lake Geneva. 25 ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’ (CSI: Miami) and ‘Baba O’Riley’ (CSI: NY). 26 Passengers; ‘Miss Sarajevo’. 27 In Through the Out Door; Coda. 28 Size: the hits were ‘Big Love’ and ‘Little Lies’. 29 Showbiz; Mushroom Records. 30 Kenney Jones of the Faces; Zak Starkey, Ringo Starr’s son.
1 A founder member of Kraftwerk; “Heroes”. 2 Labyrinth; Pontius Pilate. 3 Lulu; Bowie himself. 4 He wanted something more glamorous and was fed up of confusion with Davy Jones, singer of the Monkees; from Jim Bowie, the American hero and pioneer of the knife that bears his name.5 He’d ‘shrug and ask to stay’; ‘she’d sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid’. 6 New York; Los Angeles. 7 John Lennon; Luther Vandross (the album was Young Americans). 8 His middle name, Zowie; Moon. 9 Doppelganger and Skeleton Men.10 Annie Lennox; Imam. 11 ‘China Girl’; Let’s Dance. 12 The Buddha of Suburbia; Hanif Kureishi.13 Blackstar; Best of Bowie, a 2002 compilation.14 ‘Starman’ (1972); ‘Blue Jean’ (1984). 15 Low and “Heroes”.
16 Bing Crosby; ‘Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth’ 17 Carlos Alomar; Robert Fripp. 18 Life On Mars; The Jean Genie. 19 Nile Rodgers; Stevie Ray Vaughan. 20 The Thin White Duke; ‘Wild is the Wind’. 21 Tin Machine; ‘Working Class Hero’. 22 ‘Space Oddity’ as Major Tom reappears; a Pierrot. 23 ‘Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere’ and ‘See Emily Play’. 24 ‘God Only Knows’; Tina Turner. 25 Black Tie, White Noise; ‘Where Are We Now?’. 26 Serious Moonlight; Glass Spider. 27 The Man Who Fell to Earth; Nicolas Roeg; 28 Hours; it was called ‘Thursday’s Child’ (Thursday’s Child has far to go, according to the old children’s rhyme); 29 Absolute Beginners; Patsy Kensit. 30 Dave Grohl; ‘Slow Burn’.
1 Altered Images; Texas. 2 Gary Jules; Tears for Fears. 3 Five Star; Silk and Steel. 4 ‘Stool Pigeon’; ‘Annie, I’m Not Your Daddy’. 5 ‘Fairytale of New York’; Kirsty MacColl. 6 ‘Super Trouper’; ‘The Visitors’. 7 ‘I Want to Know What Love Is’; Spooky Tooth. 8 Heaven 17; The Luxury Gap. 9 Prefab Sprout; From Langley Park to Memphis. 10 ‘Under Pressure’; Hot Space. 11 Ghost in the Machine; ‘Invisible Sun’. 12 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. 13 Dee C Lee; Wham!. 14 ‘Personal Jesus’; Johnny Cash. 15 ‘Stand and Deliver’ and the title track, ‘Prince Charming’.
Bonus track 1
1 T’Pau. 2 Ultravox. 3 Terence Trent D’Arby. 4 Nik Kershaw. 5 Paul Young. 6 The Thompson Twins. 7 Aztec Camera. 8 The Bangles. 9 Soft Cell. 10 Bronski Beat.
Bonus track 2
1 Aneka. 2 Feargal Sharkey. 3 Bros. 4 Shakin’ Stevens. 5 Falco. 6 Irene Cara. 7 Jim Diamond. 8 Phyllis Nelson. 9 Kylie Minogue. 10 Men at Work.
Bonus track 3
1 Belouis Some. 2 Robyn Hitchcock. 3 The Go-Betweens. 4 Sonic Youth. 5 XTC. 6 Nine Inch Nails. 7 JoBoxers. 8 The Cramps. 9 Bauhaus. 10 Johnny Hates Jazz.
1 A song by Crowded House. 2 Travis. 3 Donna Summer. 4 Cheryl Cole. 5 ‘Mr Blue Sky’. 6 ‘Did You Hear the Rain?’. 7 ‘Beautiful Day’. 8 5 Seconds of Summer. 9 ‘The Boys of Summer’. 10 The Kinks. 11 ‘It’s Raining Men’. 12 Geri Halliwell. 13 ‘Holidays in the Sun’. 14 Thunderclap Newman. 15 ‘Raining in My Heart’. 16 ‘In the Summertime’. 17 Eurythmics. 18 ‘The Sun Always Shines on TV’. 19 The Doors. 20 Vanilla Ice. 21 Weather Report. 22 Kate Bush. 23 T-Bone Walker. 24 Madonna. 25 Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons. 26 ‘The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore’. 27 Rainbow. 28 Nine Below Zero. 29 Status Quo. 30 ‘Walking on Sunshine’. 31 The Orb. 32 The Dead Weather. 33 ‘A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall’. 34 ‘Summer in the City’. 35 Graham Parker & the Rumour. 36 The Undertones. 37 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. 38 ‘Informer’. 39 ‘April Skies’. 40 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.
1 Polly Jean; Dorset (Bridport). 2 John Parish; A Woman a Man Walked By; Automatic Dlamini. 3 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Tricky. 4 Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea and Let England Shake. 5 A version of Bob Dylan’s ‘Highway 61 Revisited’. 6 He’s the drummer. 7 Thom Yorke; Mick Harvey. 8 ‘The Life and Death of Mr Badmouth’; ‘Cat on the Wall’; ‘The Darker Days of Me and Him’. 9 Flood; Linton Kwesi Johnson. 10 ‘What if I take my problem to the United Nations?’; ‘Summertime Blues’ by Eddie Cochran.
11 ‘Brass in Pocket’; ‘Stop Your Sobbing’. 12 Blue Öyster Cult; ‘Hey Joe’. 13 Wave; First Aid Kit. 14 Billy Bremner; Robbie McIntosh. 15 Arthur Rimbaud, a big influence on her work; CBGB. 16 ‘I’ll Stand by You’; Girls Aloud. 17 The Isle of View; they served as the string accompaniment. 18 Tom Verlaine; Horses. 19 Stockholm; John McEnroe. 20 ‘The Boy in the Bubble’; ‘Everybody Hurts’.
21 Ladytron. 22 Tilly & the Wall. 23 Wolf Alice. 24 Warpaint. 25 Evanescence. 26 Hole. 27 Bikini Kill. 28 Sleater-Kinney. 29 Babes in Toyland. 30 Veruca Salt.
1 The Smiths, Meat is Murder, The Queen is Dead and Strangeways, Here We Come. 2 Hatful of Hollow. 3 Mike Joyce, the drummer, and Andy Rourke, the bass player. 4 The Messenger and Playland. 5 He didn’t ‘have a stitch to wear’. 6 Sheila, in ‘Sheila Take a Bow’. 7 ‘That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore’; ‘Some Girls are Bigger than Others’. 8 Steven Patrick. 9 Cicely Courtneidge; 10 Derek Jarman. 11 ‘There Is a Light that Never Goes Out’; Trainspotting. 12 Vauxhall and I; Ringleader of the Tormentors. 13 ‘ . . . I’d like to smash every tooth in your head’; ‘Bigmouth Strikes Again’. 14 ‘Hand in Glove’; Sandie Shaw. 15 ‘The Last of the Famous International Playboys’; ‘November Spawned a Monster’; ‘You’re the One for Me, Fatty’; ‘The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get’.
16 The Blue Aeroplanes; he’s the group’s dancer. 17 Orange Juice; Edwyn Collins. 18 Grimes; Visions. 19 The Independent Music Chart; Spizzenergi’s ‘Where’s Captain Kirk?’ was the first song to top the new chart. 20 Echobelly; Everyone’s Got One. 21 Bobby Gillespie; Primal Scream. 22 High Land, Hard Rain; ‘Somewhere in My Heart’. 23 Everything but the Girl; ‘Missing’. 24 BEF (British Electric Foundation); Heaven 17. 25 Julian Cope; The Teardrop Explodes. 26 Albert Camus (L’Etranger); Disintegration. 27 Echo & the Bunnymen; Ian McCulloch. 28 The Virgin Prunes; Gavin Friday. 29 ‘I Wanna Be Adored’ and ‘She Bangs the Drums’. 30 The Auteurs; ‘Lenny Valentino’.
1 Quincy Jones; Michael Jackson (Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad). 2 George Benson; Breezin’. 3 Mary J Blige; George Michael. 4 Songs in the Key of Life; Duke Ellington. 5 Martin Luther King; ‘Abraham, Martin and John’. 6 ‘Sexual Healing’; Lionel Richie. 7 ‘Can’t Slow Down’; the Commodores. 8 ‘Nightshift’; Van Morrison. 9 Dexy’s Midnight Runners; Geno (about Geno Washington). 10 Blue-eyed soul; Simply Red. 11 ‘If You Don’t Know Me By Now’; Teddy Pendergrass. 12 Sam Cooke; ‘Wonderful World’. 13 ‘Louie Louie’; Otis Redding. 14 ‘(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay’; Booker T & the M.G.’s. 15 Ain’t No Sunshine; Michael Jackson – and so back to question 1.
16 Sam & Dave and Wilson Pickett. 17 Cody Chesnutt; The Roots. 18 Chairmen of the Board; General Johnson – it was, apparently, his given name. 19 Freda Payne; it was a Vietnam War protest. 20 K.C. of K.C. & the Sunshine Band; ‘Give It Up’. 21 They were all in Sly & The Family Stone; ‘Everyday People’. 22 The Isley Brothers. Family: the three older Isleys were acknowledging the influence of their younger siblings on the band. 23 Aretha Franklin; ‘Respect’. 24 Kool and the Gang; Atomic Kitten. 25 Billy Paul; Nike. Paul won. 26 Al Green, ‘Let’s Stay Together’. 27 Leon Bridges; Apple iPhone 6. 28 Jocelyn Brown; Right Said Fred. 29 ‘Boogie Nights’; Paul Thomas Anderson. 30 ‘War’. Absolutely nothing.
1 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway; Rael. 2 Hawkwind; Michaeal Moorcock. 3 The Doors; Ian Astbury from the Cult. 4 Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Keith Emerson was in the Nice, Greg Lake in King Crimson and Carl Palmer in Atomic Rooster. 5 Barclay James Harvest; ‘Mockingbird’. 6 Richard Wright; Roger Waters. 7 Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. 8 Tales of Topographic Oceans; Jon Anderson. 9 Jeff Wayne; Richard Burton. 10 Uriah Heep; David Copperfield. 11 Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett. 12 Vangelis (Papathanassiou) was the maestro; Demis Roussos.13 Brian Eno; he had produced three Talking Heads albums. 14 Fish; Marillion, 15 Jethro Tull; Thick as a Brick.
1. Emerson, Lake & Palmer; 20:40 (allow 20-23m). 2. Genesis; 23:01 (allow 22-25). 3. Marillion; 8.13 (allow 8-9). 4. The Doors; 11:41 (allow 10-12). 5. Iron Butterfly; 17:05 (allow 16-19). 6. Wishbone Ash; 9:42 (allow 9-11). 7. Spock’s Beard; 27:02 (allow 25-30). 8. Yes; 21:55 (allow 20-23). 9. King Crimson; 12:13 (allow 11-13). 10. Pink Floyd; 13:32 (allow 12-14). 11. Rush; 19:57 (allow 18-21). 12. Caravan; 22:43 (allow 20-24). 13. Savoy Brown; 9:15 (allow 8-10). 14. The Flower Kings; 31:01 (allow anything over 30m). 15. Jethro Tull; 8:58 (allow 8-10).
1 Songlines; Australian Aborigines. 2 Peter Gabriel; Real World. 3 Amadou & Mariam; Both are blind. 4 Staff Benda Bilili; Mbongwana Star. 5 Tango; Gotan Project. 6 Shakira is from Colombia, Wyclef Jean is from Haiti. 7 Tinariwen; Turaeg, i.e. Saharan desert nomads. 9 Buena Vista Social Club; Wim Wenders. 10 Gipsy Kings; they are gypsies from the south of France who sing in Andalusian Spanish. 11 Manu Chao; Paris. 12 Peter Gabriel; Youssou N’Dour. 13 Abraxas; he was the percussionist who supplied the distinctive congas and timbales. 14 Songhoy Blues; Mali. 15 Ladysmith Black Mambazo; Paul Simon.
16. Fela Kuti. 17. Gogol Bordello. 18. Yothu Yindi. 19. Sepultura. 20. Mariza. 21. Bhundu Boys. 22. Salif Keita. 23. Rodrigo y Gabriela. 24. Ernest Ranglin. 25. Cheikh Lo. 26. Shajarian. 27. Billy Ocean. 28. Raghu Dixit. 29. Nixlopi. 30. Heather Nova.
1 Seven; 50. 2 Jackie; Jermaine. 3 Rod Temperton; Lincolnshire. 4 Music & Me (1973); Forever, Michael (1975). 5 Princess Stéphanie of Monaco; ‘Irresistible’. 6 HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book 1: ‘Come Together’. 7 ‘You’re So Vain’ by Carly Simon – the full title was ‘Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)’; Carly Simon. 8 ‘Girlfriend’; ‘The Girl is Mine’. 9 Martin Scorsese; West Side Story. 10 The Notorious B.I.G.; ‘They Don’t Care About Us’. 11 (Tamla) Motown; Diana Ross. 12 ‘Tonight’s the Night’; ‘Big Yellow Taxi’. 13 24; five years. 14 Annie; ‘Dirty Diana’. 15 Blood on the Dance Floor (HIStory in the Mix); Nile Rodgers.
16 ‘One Day in Your Life’; Forever Michael. 17 Damita Jo; James DeBarge. 18 ‘I Want You Back’; The Corporation. 19 ‘Smooth Criminal’; Alien Ant Farm. 20 2009; Conrad Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. 21 John Landis; Vincent Price. 22 Marlon; La Toya. 23 ‘Show You the Way to Go’; Epic. 24 Bad; Katy Perry. 25 Elvis Presley; Debbie Rowe. 26 His sister Janet; R Kelly. 27 ‘Let’s Get Serious’; Iman. 28 Got to Be There; ‘Rockin’ Robin’. 29 ‘Black or White’; Macaulay Culkin. 30 Invincible; Xscape.
1 ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love’. 2 ‘Too Much Too Young’; ‘Ghost Town’. 3 Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon; Meat Loaf, Bat Out of Hell; Fleetwood Mac, Rumours. 4 Purple Rain; Under the Cherry Moon; Sign o’ the Times; Graffiti Bridge. 5 Rated R; Songs for the Deaf; Lullabies to Paralyze; Era Vulgaris; . . .Like Clockwork. 5a ‘You Wear It Well’; ‘Sailing’; ‘I Don’t Want To Talk About It’ (actually a double-A side with ‘The First Cut is the Deepest’, so accept either); ‘Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?’; ‘Baby Jane’. 6 Elvis Presley (21); The Beatles (17); Cliff Richard, Westlife (14); Madonna (13); Take That (12). 7 Spice Girls; All Saints; Eternal; Pussycat Dolls; Girls Aloud; Bananarama; Destiny’s Child. 8 ‘Love Action (I Believe in Love)’; ‘Open Your Heart’; ‘Don’t You Want Me’; ‘Being Boiled’ (it was originally released in 1978 and failed to chart but hit number six when re-released after ‘Don’t You Want Me)’; ‘Mirror Man’; ‘(Keep Feeling) Fascination’; ‘Human’; ‘Tell Me When’. 9 ‘Michelle’; ‘Eleanor (Rigby)’; ‘Lucy (in the Sky with Diamonds)’; ‘(Lovely) Rita’; ‘Julia’; ‘(Sexy) Sadie’; ‘Martha (my Dear)’; ‘(Polythene) Pam’; ‘(The Ballad of John and) Yoko’. 10 Movement; Power, Corruption & Lies; Low-Life; Brotherhood; Technique; Republic; Get Ready; Waiting for the Sirens’ Call; Lost Sirens; Music Complete.
1 Knebworth; Jason Bonham. 2 Latitude; Snow Patrol. 3 Creamfields; Cheshire. 4 T in the Park; Strathallan Castle. 5 Cornbury Music Festival; Cornbury Park is now the venue for the Wilderness Festival. 6 The state of New York; Ang Lee. 7 Woodstock – they covered the Joni Mitchell song of the same name; Fairport Convention. 8 Roskilde; a naked run, which is now so oversubscribed that there are qualifying runs beforehand. 9 Derek & the Dominoes and Arthur Lee & Love. 10 Altamont; the Rolling Stones. 11 Rock Werchter; TW Classic. 12 Jay Z; Kanye West. 13 The Big Feastival; Jamie Oliver. 14 Exit Festival; Sea Dance Festival. 15 135,000 (one point if within 5,000); Pilton. 16 Beyoncé in 2011 and Adele in 2016. Kylie Minogue was booked in 2005 but had to pull out. 17 Randalls Island, New York (just ‘New York’ is fine); it rained so hard that the venue was deemed unsafe and the event was cancelled. 18 The Glastonbury Festival; David Bowie. 19 End of the Road; Bella Union. 20 Lollapalooza; Santiago in Chile – the concept has since expanded to include Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and Bogotá.
Bonus track 1
1 Camp Bestival. 2 Truck. 3 WOMAD. 4 Lovebox. 5 Download. 6 Beautiful Days. 7 Bestival. 8 Meltdown. 9 Green Man. 10 The Great Escape.
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1 Barcelona. 2 Byron Bay. 3 Iceland. 4 California. 5 Manchester. 6 Rajasthan. 7 Switzerland. 8 Austin. 9 Mexico. 10 The Nevada desert.
1 ‘Wannabe’; 1996. 2 ‘Eye of the Tiger’; ‘Burning Heart’. 3 ‘Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)’; ‘Voulez-Vous’. 4 They are the girls name-checked in the chorus of Lou Bega’s Mambo #5; Jessica. 5 The Fame Monster; ‘Bad Romance’. 6 ‘Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)’; ‘Thunder Road’. 7 ‘Beat It’; Eddie Van Halen. 8 Susan Ann Sulley; as a waitress in a cocktail bar. 9 A monster; The Automatic. 10 A cowboy and a construction worker. 11 Sunshine on Leith; Hibernian FC. 12 ‘Karma Chameleon’; red, gold and green. 13 ‘All About the Bass’; Title. 14 Crazy Frog; ‘Axel F’. 15 ‘Smoke on the Water’; Montreux.
16 ‘Can’t Get you Out of My Head’; Mud. 17 Baha Men; Rugrats in Paris. 18 ‘Call Me Maybe’; Canada. 19 Black Eyed Peas (‘My Humps’); ‘Pump It’. 20 Toni Basil; ‘Kitty’. 21 Boney M; ‘Brown Girl in the Ring’. 22 Kelly Clarkson; anything that doesn’t kill you – ‘Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)’ was the song. 23 ‘The Final Countdown’; Joey Tempest. 24 ‘Doctor Jones’ and ‘Turn Back Time’. 25 Chumbawamba; ‘Tubthumping’. 26 Blondie’s ‘One Way or Another’ and the Undertones’ ‘Teenage Kicks’. 27 Bucks Fizz; the two boys in the group pulled off the two girls’ skirts, to reveal more skirts. 28 ‘Seven Nation Army’; Jack White’s guitar played through an effects pedal. 29 ‘I Will Survive’; Gloria Gaynor. 30 Cheerleader; Simon Cowell
1 Public Image Ltd; Metal Box. 2 Elvis Costello and the Attractions; Armed Forces. 3 Joni Mitchell; Blue. 4 Madness; One Step Beyond. 5 Stevie Wonder; Songs in the Key of Life. 6 Steely Dan; Pretzel Logic. 7 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; Damn the Torpedoes. 8 Joy Division; Unknown Pleasures. 9 Curtis Mayfield; Superfly. 10 Bob Marley and the Wailers; Catch a Fire. 11 Paul Simon; Still Crazy After All These Years. 12 The Ruts; The Crack. 13 XTC; Drums and Wires. 14 Patti Smith; Easter. 15 The Stranglers; No More Heroes.
16 Neil Young; Harvest. 17 Talking Heads; Fear of Music. 18 Supertramp; Breakfast in America. 19 The Sensational Alex Harvey Band; Framed. 20 Paul McCartney and Wings; Band on the Run. 21 Blondie; Parallel Lines. 22 Led Zeppelin; Physical Graffiti. 23 The Cure; Three Imaginary Boys. 24 John Martyn; Solid Air. 25 Boomtown Rats; A Tonic for the Troops. 26 David Bowie; Station to Station. 27 Bruce Springsteen; Darkness on the Edge of Town. Roxy Music; For Your Pleasure. 29 Lou Reed; Berlin. 30 Electric Light Orchestra; Out of the Blue.
1 Studio 150; Gil Scott-Heron. 2 ‘In the Midnight Hour’; ‘Heat Wave’. 3 They were all written by bassist Bruce Foxton. 4 Playing ‘Little Boy Soldiers’; ‘The Eton Rifles’; ‘Smithers-Jones’. 5 Wormwood Scrubs; ‘Down in the Tube Station at Midnight’. 6 Entertainment: they’re among the things listed in ‘That’s Entertainment’. 7 ‘Going Underground’ (twinned with ‘Dreams of Children’), ‘Start!’, ‘Town Called Malice’ (twinned with ‘Precious’) and ‘Beat Surrender’. 8 ‘News of the World’; ‘Funeral Pyre’. 9 Fire and Skill; they’re the words inscribed on Weller’s guitar amp. 10 Stanley Road; it’s the street where he was brought up in Woking, Surrey; ‘You Do Something to Me’. 11 Our Favourite Shop; Lenny Henry. 12 Absolute Beginners. 13 Heavy Soul. 14 22 Dreams. 15 Heliocentric. 16 Wild Wood. 17 Sonik Kicks.
18 Alison Mosshart and Jack White. 19 Cerys Matthews; ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’. 20 They’re three of the cartoon characters that make up the band Gorillaz; the missing member is Noodle. 21 Neil Hannon; the Divine Comedy. 22 The Charlatans; Rob Collins, their keyboard player, was killed in a car crash. 23 Quentin Tarantino; ‘Swashbucklin’ in Brooklyn’. 24 Athlete; ‘Wires’. 25 I’m with Stupid; Magnolia. 26 Ocean Colour Scene; Paul Weller. 27 Speech Debelle and Young Fathers. 28 Texas; Sharleen Spiteri. 29 ‘Weak Become Heroes’; A Grand Don’t Come for Free. 30 ‘A Little Time’; Paul Heaton. 31 The Housemartins and Beats International. 32 Richard Ashcroft; the Verve.
1 One Scotch and one Beer. 2 ‘Itchycoo Park’. 3 Bowling for Soup. 4 James Taylor. 5 Oasis. 6 Wiz Khalifa. 7 The Who by Numbers. 8 JJ Cale. 9 Mary Coughlan. 10 Queens of the Stone Age. 11 Milk. 12 They ‘don’t do anything at all’, according to Jefferson Airplane’s ‘White Rabbit’. 13 Vodka and cider. 14 ‘Ebeneezer Goode’. 15 ‘Brass Monkey’. 16 ‘Eight Miles High’. 17 ‘Gin and Juice’. 18 Cypress Hill. 19 Kris Kristofferson. 20 The Notorious BIG. 21 ‘The Bartender and the Thief’. 22 Acid – they were Gaye Bykers on Acid. 23 Motörhead. 24 ‘Love Is the Drug’. 25 Whiskey for the Holy Ghost. 26 Plan B. 27 Status Quo. 28 Amy Winehouse. 29 ‘Lilac Wine’. 30 Canned Heat. 31 Sailor. 32 The Darkness. 33 ‘Mistletoe and Wine’. 34 Pulp. 35 Bruno Mars. 36 Plan B. 37 ‘Drinking from the Bottle’. 38 Black Sabbath. 39 Caro Emerald. 40 Placebo.
1 ‘Low Rider’; Cheech & Chong. 2 ‘Radar Love’; the Netherlands – they were Dutch. 3 Peter Frampton; ‘Show Me the Way’. 4 ‘Sylvia’s Mother’; they wanted to be on ‘The Cover of Rolling Stone’. 5 They were named in the titles of the five tracks that comprise Pink Floyd’s Animals; Battersea Power Station. 6 Joe Walsh; ‘Life’s Been Good’. 7 ‘Baker Street’; Stealers Wheel. 8 Boston; er, Boston. 9 News of the World; ‘Sheer Heart Attack’, which had previously served as the name of their third album, released in 1974. 10 Midge Ure; Thin Lizzy. 11 Curved Air; ‘Back Street Luv’. 12 ‘Dance Away’ and ‘Angel Eyes’. 13 Lindisfarne; Paul Gascoigne – it was credited to ‘Gazza & Lindisfarne’. 14 ‘Hocus Pocus’; ‘Sylvia’. 15 They were the Spiders from Mars, David Bowie’s backing band; Uriah Heep.
16 Clive Dunn; ‘Ride a White Swan’. 17 Band on the Run by Wings; ‘Jet’. 18 Showaddywaddy; ‘Under the Moon of Love’. 19 ‘Ma Baker’; ‘Rasputin’. 20 ‘What’s Going On’; Marvin Gaye, the first time he’d produced his own material. 21 Rock Follies; Andy Mackay. 22 ‘No More Mr Nice Guy’; ‘Elected’. 23 ‘The Chain’; ‘Silver Springs’. 24 Saturday Night Fever; The Sound of Music. 25 Electric Light Orchestra; Wizzard. 26 ‘Coz I Luv You’; ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’. 27 ‘I’m Still Waiting’; Tony Blackburn. 28 ‘Down Down’; ‘Rockin’ All Over the World’. 29 ‘Honaloochie Boogie’; ‘All the Way from Memphis’. 30 Ron and Russell Mael; Kimono My House.
1 Lily Allen; It’s Not Me, It’s You. 2 Cher; ‘The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)’ – her previous chart-topper had been ‘I Got You Babe’, a duet with then-husband Sonny Bono. 3 The Runaways; Dakota Fanning. 4 The Smiths, although they spelt it ‘Shakespeares Sister’; Marcella Detroit. 5 Alison Moyet; ‘That Ole Devil Called Love’. 6 The Go-Go’s; ‘Our Lips Are Sealed’. 7 Kate Bush, with Never for Ever. 8 Lulu; Take That. 9 Crazysexycool; ‘Creep’. 10 Bat for Lashes; Sexwitch. 11 Annie Lennox – her 1995 album was called Medusa, while her 2002 release was Bare; ‘Love Song for a Vampire’. 12 Louise Wener, the singer of Sleeper, whose second album was called The It Girl; she is now a novelist. 13 ‘Wannabe’; ‘Stop’ was the only one of the ten not to top the UK singles chart. 14 Catatonia; the album was called Scissors, Paper, Stone. 15 Salt-N-Pepa; DJ Spinderella. 16 Billie (later Billie Piper); Chris Evans. 17 Haim; Days Are Gone. 18 Bernard Butler; Endlessly. 19 All Saints; ‘Never Ever’. 20 Suzi Quatro; ‘Devil Gate Drive’.
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1 The Saturdays. 2 Sugababes. 3 Pussycat Dolls. 4 B*Witched. 5 Hepburn. 6 All Saints. 7 tATu. 8 Girls Aloud. 9 Spice Girls. 10 Atomic Kitten.
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1 Janis Joplin. 2 Mary Timony. 3 Kim Deal. 4 Belinda Carlisle. 5 Carol Dekker. 6 Annie Lennox. 7 Lzzy Hale. 8 Ari Up. 9 Erika Wennerstrom. 10 Margo Timmins.
1 Richard Hell; Television. 2 Eddie & the Hot Rods; Graeme Douglas. 3 The Flamin’ Groovies; Dave Edmunds. 4 The Dictators; ‘California Sun’. 5 The eponymous debut album by the New York Dolls; David Johansen. 6 Joe Strummer and Ian Dury. 7 ‘The Passenger’; Siouxsie & the Banshees. 8 Kim Fowley; ‘Cherry Bomb’. 9 The Heartbreakers; Richard Hell. 10 Graham Parker (with the Rumour); Stick to Me. 11 Dr Feelgood; Lee Brilleaux. 12 The MC5; Kick Out the Jams. 13 ‘Judy is a Punk’ and ‘Suzy is a Headbanger’ – they’re all tracks by the Ramones. 14 Dr Feelgood; ‘Johnny B Goode’. 15 The Stooges; ‘Search and Destroy’.
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16 ‘Janie Jones’ on The Clash. 17 ‘Gary Gilmore’s Eyes’ by the Adverts. 18 Squeeze are being ‘Tempted’. 19 According to the Clash, ‘White Riot’. 20 ‘There’s gonna be a borstal breakout’, from Sham 69’s ‘Borstal Breakout’. 21 ‘Rockaway Beach’ (the Ramones). 22 ‘No More Heroes’ by the Stranglers. 23 ‘Alternative Ulster’ (Stiff Little Fingers). 24 ‘Pretty Vacant’ (the Sex Pistols). 25 The Dead Kennedys, on ‘California Über Alles’. 26 ‘What Do I Get?’ (Buzzcocks). 27 ‘Mary of the 4th Form’ (the Boomtown Rats). 28 ‘New Rose’ by the Damned). 29 Blondie’s ‘Rip Her to Shreds’. 30 ‘My Perfect Cousin’ by the Undertones.
1 Echo: McCulloch is the singer in Echo and the Bunnymen, Martha and the Muffins had a hit with ‘Echo Beach’ and the Floyd compilation was called Echoes. 2 Heaven: Bob Dylan’s ‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door’, Bruno Mars’ ‘Locked Out of Heaven’ and Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway To Heaven’. 3 Pictures: The Who’s ‘Pictures of Lily’ Status Quo’s ‘Pictures of Matchstick Men’and Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s ‘Pictures At An Exhibition’. 4 Mountain: In The Future is by Black Mountain, Heretic Pride is by the Mountain Goats, and Fleet Foxes released their self-named debut album, which contained the tracks ‘Blue Ridge Mountains’ and ‘Tiger Mountain Peasant Song’. 5 Slow Down: the Beatles and the Jam covered the Williams song, Foreigner’s album was Can’t Slow Down, and Oasis released a download-only single called ‘Lord Don’t Slow Me Down’. 6 ‘Spaceman’, ‘Mr Spaceman’ and ‘I Thought I Was A Spaceman’ respectively. 7 Set fire: ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’, ‘Set Fire to the Rain’ and ‘ Set the Fire to the Third Bar’ respectively. 8 House: Blur’s ‘Country House’, Madness’s ‘House of Fun’ and Ed Sheeran’s ‘Lego House’. 9 Party: Beastie Boy’s ‘(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)’, Pink’s ‘Get the Party Started, and Courtney Barnett’s ‘Nobody Really Cares if You Don’t Go to the Party’.10 Garden: Lynn Anderson’s ‘(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden’, the Beatles’ ‘Octopus’s Garden’ and Siouxsie and the Banshees’ ‘Hong Kong Garden’. 11 Breathe: Laura Marling did it on her 2013 album Once I Was an Eagle. 12 Electric: ‘Feel Electric, ‘Electric Body’, ‘Electric Lady; and Duran Duran had a single called ‘Electric Barbarella’. 13 Moonlight: Moonlight Sonata, ‘Moonlight Serenade, and Toploader and Thin Lizzy both sang songs called.’Dancing in the Moonlight’. 14 Blood: Bastille’s ‘Bad Blood’, Kanye’s ‘Blood on the Leaves’ and Norah’s ‘Young Blood’; Kerr and Thatcher are the two members of Royal Blood. 15 Jump: Van Halens’s ‘Jump’, House of Pain’s ‘Jump Around’ and Metallica’s ‘Jump in the Fire’; Flo Rida.
16 Ginger Baker; Blind Faith. 17 Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler. 18 ‘Biscuits’; Same Trailer, Different Park. 19 Half Man Half Biscuit; Achtung Bono. 20 King Biscuit Time; Meet the Humans. 21 Sodomy (‘Cake and Sodomy’); Brian Warner. 22 Hot Chocolate; ‘So You Win Again’. 23 Pennyroyal; abortion – pennyroyal tea is said to induce miscarriage if consumed in vast quantities. 24 ‘Honey Pie’; Moby. 25 ‘Black Coffee’; in bed (‘Black Coffee in Bed’). 26 ‘Peaches N Cream’; Charlie Wilson. 27 Sugar; Spice (‘Sugar and Spice’). 28 Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band; as bubblegum (‘Strawberry Bubblegum’). 29 Garbage; Benny Hill. 30 Bread; ‘Make It With You’.
1 1982. 2 1975. 3 1991. 4 1966. 5 1986. 6 1963. 7 1958. 8 2001. 9 1964. 10 1990. 11 1969. 12 2003. 13 1978. 14 1997. 15 1960.
16 2005. 17 1979. 18 1988. 19 2012. 20 1961. 21 1977. 22 1956. 23 1995. 24 2010. 25 2000. 26 1965. 27 1984. 28 2002. 29 1970. 30 1992.
1 Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman. 2 Tori Amos; the Stranglers. 3 Elvis’s ‘Suspicious Minds’ and the Beatles’‘The Long and Winding Road’. 4 ‘I Will Always Love You’; Dolly Parton. 5 U2; the Skids. 6 An Innocent Man; Westlife. 7 ‘Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood’; Notting Hill. 8 The Marmalade; ‘Ob-la-di Ob-la-da’. 9 ‘Sound and Vision’; Girls Aloud. 10 Robbie Williams; Michael Bublé. 11 Lulu; Dan Hartman. 12 ‘Santa Claus Is Coming To Town’; Björn Again. 13 Talking Heads; Big Mouth Billy Bass, a singing fish head.14 David Bowie and Amii Stewart. 15 Take That and Boyzone respectively.
16 The Isley Brothers; The Christians. 17 Tom Waits; ‘Heigh-Ho’ from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. 18 Joe Cocker; Wet Wet Wet. 19 Kate Bush; ‘Candle in the Wind’. 20 Thin Lizzy; Metallica. 21 ‘Heroes’; Brian Eno, who co-wrote ‘Heroes’ with Bowie, did a version of Gabriel’s song ‘Mothers of Violence’. 22 Dave Edmunds and Robert Wyatt respectively. 23 ‘Victoria’ and ‘There’s a Ghost In My House’. 24 ‘Whole Lotta Love’; ‘Asteroid’ (but a point for saying ‘the Pearl & Dean song’). 25 Village People; David Bowie. 26 ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart’; it was sung not by Sarah Cracknell but by session singer Moira Lambert. 27 Flaming Lips; Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (the album was entitled With a Little Help from My Fwends). 28 Dave Edmunds and the Ramones respectively. 29 To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International; Bryan Ferry. 30 ‘Make You Feel My Love’ and ‘Lovesong’.
1 L7 (drummer Dee Plakas was apparently quite relaxed about the incident); The Word. 2 Boy George; Kirk Brandon. 3 ‘Go Ape Crazy!’; the album’s cover, a pastiche of Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, showed singer Annabella Lwin naked – she was 14 at the time. 4 Chuck Berry; tax evasion. 5 Madonna; Live Aid. 6 Eminem; ‘Cleaning out My Closet’. 7 ‘Golden Brown’; Hugh Cornwell. 8 A lawn mower – he was stopped by police about ten miles away; Tammy Wynette. 9 Jim Morrison; he died while the sentence was on appeal. 10 Burglary – while the rest of the Libertines were on tour, Doherty broke into bandmate Carl Barât’s flat and stole property. 11 Larry Hagman; Oliver Reed. 12 Nicole was married to Liam Gallagher from 2008 to 2014, while Natalie’s second husband is Liam Howlett of the Prodigy. 13 He was never done for fraud or manslaughter. 14 Queens of the Stone Age; Josh Homme. 15 Elton John; flowers.
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