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Okay, let's try to restart. Q39 will be closed in five minutes, but...

41. Which pop star once changed his name by deed poll to Clark Kent?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 18:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Okay, I think we have a dead thread here. I'll leave those questions standing there and check again some time.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 18:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Back again, at least for a few minutes anyway!

As for Q41 I think it may be Stewart Copeland of the Police.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 25 August 2002 19:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

The only other person I can find named David Barker that might have conceivably had hits was the one in Fortran 5, but he wasn't the singer was he? As for Stewart Copeland, I thought he was Klark Kent (two Ks) so I don't think that's it.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 19:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

You're right that those aren't right, Sean - indeed, David Barker had his first name in the act name. The act had two top ten hits in the UK (one a #1). And I did spell Clark Kent correctly, as in Superman. The person concerned has had about 15 top ten hits hear, five of them at #1. What I'm pointing out there is that I'm not choosing impossibly obscure people!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 19:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Another clue for David Barker: it is fair to say that he was magnificent.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 19:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hmmmm, suddenly I'm thinking David Lee Roth of Van Halen fame.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 19:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

But of course that doesn't have Dave in it.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 19:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, remember: Jamaica. David Barker claimed to be magnificent at the start of their number 1 hit.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

If you'll allow me to cheat and earn the point through TIRELESS RESEARCH, let's say Dave and Ansell Collins.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well done, Sean - I expect some of you will now remember his "I am the magnificent" opening?

Let's try to get through the last few. I'll withdraw Q41, which is an obscure nugget about Shakin' Stevens, and move on:

42. What was the Electric Light Orchestra's first single?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

That'd be 10538 Overture.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Right again, Sean. It's now a 3-way tie for first! Exceiting, if there were people around to get excited! An easy one:

43. Who is responsible for the music in The Prodigy?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, moving on anyway, but leaving that easy one available, my suspicion is that there aren't many people looking in, and it's late here, so I'm going to just post the rest, maybe check back once tonight, but otherwise I won't be back for over 18 hours, until 6pm (UK) tomorrow.

44. Whose 'Just Waiting' have the Fall covered?
45. Who is Vincent Van Gogh the baddest painter since?
46. What Cyndi Lauper single was covered by Miles Davis?
47. What soul singer sued Otis Redding for plagiarism over These Arms Of Mine?
48. Who did Johnny Rotten describe as "punk's Perry Como"?
49. Which rock star shares his real name with one of the Monkees?
50. Who wrote the music for 'Annie Get Your Gun'?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

First right answer for each question gets the point, whenever it is posted. Bear in mind the guessing rule: if you have multiple guesses they will be taken in order, but all beyond the first will be assessed after the next person has a go. If you guess "X, Y", only X gets assessed immediately. If someone else then says "Yes, that's right, Y", they get the point.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

46. Time after Time, though she wasn't the only one who wrote it.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

49. was David Bowie.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Two correct answers, Sean. No, Cyndi didn't write it - that's why I phrased it as her single rather than her song. And Bowie's real name is David Jones.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh oh oh, and 45 was "God's Jan Vermeer". Just had to remember my Richman, was tempted to say "Pablo Picasso", because of the whole Richman painter thing.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 21:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

44 is Hank Williams

Goddamit, I knew the answer to that McCarthy question. I just woke up a few hours too late

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 25 August 2002 21:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

43 I'm tempted to answer "THASS NOT MUSIC MATE" but instead I'll remember that compilation he put out and say Liam Howlett instead.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 22:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

47: Irma Thomas (for Pain in my Heart)

Am I right or am I wrong?

And I knew about Bruce Johnston out of the Beach Boys and Frans Hals of Laughing Cavalier fame too. Can I have the points? The points are very lonely and they need an owner, they are crying in fact.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 26 August 2002 08:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am wrong :-( I am also incapable of reading.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 26 August 2002 11:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

David Bowie = Davy Jones of The Monkees!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 August 2002 14:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hello again. Punk's Perry Como was Billy Idol (fair enough, in a meaningless kind of way), and Irving Berlin wrote the music for Annie Get Your Gun, but it doesn't matter because Sean won by a good margin anyway, with Ned and Bill runners up. Congratulations, Sean!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 26 August 2002 15:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the Academy, Puff Daddy and ooo ooo oh yeah GOD for the chance and privilege to win this bad boy! (And thanks Martin for the interesting questions!) I know you said the prize was inconsequential...was it a boot in the butt?)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 26 August 2002 15:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think I said that if there was a prize it wouldn't be worth having. I have since realised that I offered a C90 comp prize last time I did this, and still owe it to the winner. That's pushing two months ago! Aargh! If you'd like to send me your address by email, Sean, maybe having two tapes to send off might get me off my lame arse...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 26 August 2002 16:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

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