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rogerzilla · « **Reply #725 on:** 29 January, 2010, 06:38:18 am »

Right. Which album allegedly ends with the backwards lyric "I'll f*** you like a superman"?

Redlight · « **Reply #726 on:** 29 January, 2010, 07:21:47 am »

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, I believe. Although modern listeners are denied the opportunity to hear this as you can't play a CD backwards

Redlight · « **Reply #727 on:** 29 January, 2010, 08:54:37 am »

Assuming i got that right, here's a relatively straightforward one.

Marianne Faithfull, Brad Roberts, Suzanne Vega and Jane Sibbery have all sung lead vocals (not duets) on albums by which British artist?

clarion · « **Reply #728 on:** 29 January, 2010, 09:37:18 am »

Marianne Faithfull has sung with Joe Jackson, who has played piano for Suzanne Vega. Am I close?

I have no idea who Brad Roberts or Jane Sibberry are.

Redlight · « **Reply #729 on:** 29 January, 2010, 09:41:18 am »

Close enough. It is JJ. Brad Roberts is lead singer with Crash Test Dummies. Jane Sibbery is a soloist with operatic tendencies. Both of them, and Suzanne Vega, take lead vocals on the Heaven and Hell album while Marianne sings on Night and Day 2.

Over to you...

clarion · « **Reply #730 on:** 29 January, 2010, 09:52:35 am »

Ah. I had a question forming a bit ago. Just got to remember it

clarion · « **Reply #731 on:** 29 January, 2010, 10:03:51 am »

OK. Another 'What links'

Here's your list:

Patti Smith
Beatles
Willie Dixon
Genesis
Tommy Steele

citoyen · « **Reply #732 on:** 29 January, 2010, 10:05:58 am »

Van Morrison?

clarion · « **Reply #733 on:** 29 January, 2010, 10:11:02 am »

If you're offering that as the answer, then I have to say no (though it provides a very amusing image).

If you're asking whether he belongs in the group, testing a theory for an answer, I have to confess I am not familiar enough with his extensive oeuvre to comment, but I don't think so.

Martin · « **Reply #734 on:** 29 January, 2010, 10:14:32 am »

Mellotrons?

citoyen · « **Reply #735 on:** 29 January, 2010, 10:14:37 am »

Now I'm intrigued!

It was meant to be an answer - VM sprang to mind instantly on reading Patti Smith (Gloria) and the Beatles (Come Together), and I wouldn't be at all surprised if VM covered one or two Willie Dixon songs. Can't take the connection any further than that, though.

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Pingu · « **Reply #736 on:** 29 January, 2010, 10:18:35 am »

White?

clarion · « **Reply #737 on:** 29 January, 2010, 10:22:39 am »

Not Mellotrons (it may be a link, but not the answer).

Smudge, as ever, your lateral thinking is in good form, but I'm afraid Van the ~~drunken old lecher~~ Man is not the answer.

White is not the answer, but is related to two parts of the answer (don't get distracted by that, though).

Clue*: Don't think laterally; think pastorally.

* but probably not much of one

PaulF · « **Reply #738 on:** 29 January, 2010, 10:26:16 am »

Angels?

clarion · « **Reply #739 on:** 29 January, 2010, 10:27:21 am »

Not angels. I can see where you're going with that (and Ask The Angels is one of my favourite Patti tracks), but no.

Pingu · « **Reply #740 on:** 29 January, 2010, 10:47:54 am »

Farm(ed) animals?

Lamb
Bull
Bee

clarion · « **Reply #741 on:** 29 January, 2010, 10:50:53 am »

An interesting direction, but bee? Are you taking the apis?

Bee is not right, but you're getting there. I think you will be able to get all the parts of it now you know that. I was just about to drop a clue that they could be considered All Together Now

MSeries · « **Reply #742 on:** 29 January, 2010, 10:52:21 am »

citoyen · « **Reply #743 on:** 29 January, 2010, 10:55:27 am »

Tommy Steele - Little White Bull
Patti Smith - Horses
Beatles - Piggies
Genesis - something about a Lamb lying down, IIRC
Housemartins - Sheep (I offer this as a substitute answer because I don't know enough about Willie Dixon)

So it's all farm animals, innit.

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Mr Larrington · « **Reply #744 on:** 29 January, 2010, 10:56:34 am »

Willie Dixon wrote "Little Red Rooster"

citoyen · « **Reply #745 on:** 29 January, 2010, 10:58:49 am »

~~Was Little Red Rooster a Willie Dixon song?~~

[edit: Mr L answered the question even while I was asking it]

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Martin · « **Reply #746 on:** 29 January, 2010, 10:58:57 am »

Horses
Lamb (lies down)
(little white) Bull
Piggies
never heard of Willie Dixon

don't know the VM one

clarion · « **Reply #747 on:** 29 January, 2010, 11:06:27 am »

Crikey. Not sure who got that in the end. Probably Smudge, though Pingu got the farmyard connection, and M le Maire got the Little Red Rooster*

So -

Patti Smith - Horses

Beatles - Piggies (A George Harrison track on The White Album)

Willie Dixon - Little Red Rooster

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Tommy Steele - Little White Bull

* I always wondered why possibly the most priapic male of a priapic decade chose a song about impotence.

Pingu · « **Reply #748 on:** 29 January, 2010, 11:08:14 am »

Quote from: clarion on 29 January, 2010, 10:50:53 am

An interesting direction, but bee? Are you taking the apis?

Bee is not right, but you're getting there. I think you will be able to get all the parts of it now you know that. I was just about to drop a clue that they could be considered All Together Now

Muddy Waters did a song called Honey Bee & I thought it may have been written by Willie Dixon. A subsequent search on Wikipedia reveals it was written by a certain Mr Morganfield

clarion · « **Reply #749 on:** 29 January, 2010, 11:09:46 am »

Willie Dixon does seem to have written pretty much every blues standard, with very few exceptions

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