This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us.

Yes it is, it’s Crawley, and there must be 100,000 other people here.

Oooh, I fancy some gravy now.

Reasonably obscure film – terrific soundtrack (which pops up in my head from time to time): Young Sherlock Holmes. It’s by Bruce Broughton, but has a real john Williams feel to it. Not sure if it’s on any […]

One of the finest guitar solos in all of pop music.

Swinging in from Hertfordshire, please welcome Mr and Mrs Finger, with their son Sol – and also their good friend Mr James Brown, who also happens to be the Godfather of Sol…

Here we go:

Johnny Mathis – mainly because my Mum is a fan (his Christmas songs are indelibly inked onto my brain).

Many tv themes, particularly those plucked from the KPM library (there’s loads of the KPM […]

“I was taken by surprise…”

“Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome, all the way from the Channel Islands Mr and Mrs La Motown and their daughter Tammy”

Correct! With “More than a Woman”. Knocked off Number One by the re-issue of “My Sweet Lord” by George Harrison.

Nope. A much younger artist (sadly). Another clue – R&B.

George is one of them. “Try Again” for the second artist.

This one might be well known, but which two artists had consecutive posthumous UK number ones at the start of 2002?

Trying to fix a printer last night, I forgot what I was doing and sat it on the carpet. While it’s a fairly old carpet, I didn’t really want a blob of black printer ink on it, nor my wife and I spending ages […]

Forever and Ever (Slik & Demis Roussos).

Correct. It’s the order of appearance in the original Band Aid video (35 years old this year).

Paul Young
Boy George
George Michael
Simon Le Bon

Who’s next?

“There were martyrs on the street in every shape and size…”

The Auteurs – Lenny Valentino.

This was a specialist subject on Mastermind a week or so back, funnily enough. Sadly, as the clock ran out, John Humphreys didn’t exclaim “I’ve stoated so I’ll finish”.

The 80s bit was a sticking point for me too – sampling I suppose started in the 80s, so i was going to try to hang it on that!

The Proms concert is now, I think on Youtube; I started watching it, but was worn […]

Has anyone mentioned Public Service Broadcasting yet? Worth a try – not 80s sounding per se, but think they would appeal.