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Redlight

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #925 on: 04 February, 2010, 12:03:17 pm »
Bass players only known by a nickname - Lemmy, Youth (don't know the names of the other bands' members and am not going to cheat)
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #926 on: 04 February, 2010, 12:04:02 pm »
Style of bass playing, ie more rhythm guitar than traditional?
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #927 on: 04 February, 2010, 01:14:44 pm »
Bass players only known by a nickname - Lemmy, Youth (don't know the names of the other bands' members and am not going to cheat)

Is the right answer.  Hamilton, Lemmy, Googe and Youth.
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Redlight

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #928 on: 04 February, 2010, 02:06:48 pm »
OK, another odd one out, this time albums rather than performers:


The Beatles (White Album)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John
Seconds Out by Genesis
Live at Budokan by Bob Dylan
Big World by Joe Jackson
Nothing Like the Sun by Sting

It's nothing to do with the cover design  :)

I will be offline for a few hours so if anyone genuinely KNOWS the answer to this then please take over.


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Martin

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #929 on: 04 February, 2010, 04:15:34 pm »
Joe Jackson was a single LP; the others are all double

Redlight

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #930 on: 04 February, 2010, 07:50:34 pm »
Nope.
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Zoidburg

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #931 on: 04 February, 2010, 07:53:10 pm »
Top sellers of all time in Japan?

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #932 on: 04 February, 2010, 07:56:58 pm »
They're all the 8th album from that artist?
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #933 on: 04 February, 2010, 07:57:45 pm »
No and no (esp in the case of Bob)
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Redlight

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #934 on: 04 February, 2010, 08:11:54 pm »
Joe Jackson was a single LP; the others are all double

I'll give you a half-right there. It's the right answer but not quite the right reason  ;)
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Redlight

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #935 on: 05 February, 2010, 09:35:18 am »
I think we'll give up on this one as no-one has any new suggestions.  It is the Joe jackson album. They were all double's but Big World had music on only three sides. The fourth was blank. No idea why (it was pre-CD era).

This is more mainstream:

Which defunct (but occasionally reforming) band featured:

Steve Lindsay (aka The Planets who had a mid-80s hit called Lines)
One half of the Langer-Winstanley production partnership
Suggs' missus
and
One half of the Original Mirrors?

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #936 on: 05 February, 2010, 09:41:49 am »
Oooh!  I think I know this.  Is it, perchance, Deaf School?
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #937 on: 05 February, 2010, 09:47:08 am »
Got it in one.

Great band - knockout back at Liverpool Uni in 78 and still pretty good last year at The Garage, although sadly missing Eric Shark, who died a couple of weeks ago.
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #938 on: 05 February, 2010, 09:54:52 am »
What links Iron Maiden's Steve Harris, Johnny Marr and Damon "Badly Drawn Boy" Gough?
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clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #939 on: 05 February, 2010, 09:55:25 am »
I didn't know, so for my own edification, I Wikid for Mrs Suggs.  It then became obvious.  A good question :)
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #940 on: 05 February, 2010, 09:57:43 am »
Steve Harris.  I know four things about him.

He's in Iron Maiden

He trialled for a professional footy team

He's been in the band throughout

He's really rather good.

I suspect the answer is related to the second of these.
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #941 on: 05 February, 2010, 10:14:51 am »
What links Iron Maiden's Steve Harris, Johnny Marr and Damon "Badly Drawn Boy" Gough?

They all support West Ham?

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clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #942 on: 05 February, 2010, 10:18:49 am »
I very much doubt that Gough & Marr (both from MCR) support anyone other than City.
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #943 on: 05 February, 2010, 10:33:34 am »
May not be West Ham, but could still be a football link - didn't Johnny Marr have a brief career as a footballer? And is the same true of BDB and Steve Harris?

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clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #944 on: 05 February, 2010, 10:37:42 am »
I think Marr trialled for Man City, Harris for West Ham, and Gough for some team or other.
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #945 on: 05 February, 2010, 10:49:15 am »
Clarion is the closest - BDB had a trial for Mankchester United.
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clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #946 on: 05 February, 2010, 11:05:01 am »
OK.

A Guy and a Doll, an African pianist and 'Bob Robertson' meet in a Scottish town.  
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #947 on: 05 February, 2010, 12:25:58 pm »
Dollar?

Dollar = Girl & boy (van Day?) 'band'  :sick:
Dollar Brand = African pianist (now Abdullah Ibrahim)
Dollar = Scottish town (Twa Wee Coonties audax  :thumbsup:)

Dunno about Robertson.

clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #948 on: 05 February, 2010, 03:39:57 pm »
Quick for an RBQ question.

But pretty much complete.  Bazar  Van Day of Dollar were in an awful group - three men/three women - called Guys & Dolls

'Bob Robertson' was the most obscure bit.  It's a pseudonym for a chap called Sergio Leone when he appears in a western movie called A  Fistful of Dollars.  He also, more famously, wrote directed the movie, famous for the iconic music. :)

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #949 on: 05 February, 2010, 04:02:12 pm »
The music for Leone's spaghetti westerns was the work of Ennio Morricone...
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