01-05-2002 20:57									#61
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It's listed as Pure Michael in my list. But you're right, it was a duet.

I still think you should be able to guess the "correct" person. You of all people should.

	01-05-2002 21:25									#62
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It has to be Paul McCartney. One solo hits I can think of is "Pipes of Peace", the duet is "Ebony & Ivory" with Stevie Wonder, the group of four is obviously The Beatles, the group of 9 could well be a thing he recorded with The Christians, Holly Johnson, Gerry Marsden, Stock Aitken and Waterman, and the unvelievable big group could well be Band Aid.

He got a #1 with Wings and Mull of Kyntire, but I'm not sure whether that's the group of 5 or 6.

So I still have to think about the trio, and either the quintet or the sextest.

But I am into something, aren't I?

	01-05-2002 21:34									#63
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Of course you're entirely right. You also nailed The Solo Hit, the Duet Hit, the Quartet Hits, the Nine-Piece Hit and the Huge Crowd Hit. And Mull of Kintyre is one of the remaining three.

	01-05-2002 21:49									#64
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Ferry Aid's "Let it Be" must be the sextet, while "Mull of Kyntire" with Wings was most likely a quintet. Cookie for me?

And I can't for the life of me think of the trio hit... damn!

	01-05-2002 21:58									#65
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Well I've told you too much, since if I say Mull of Kintyre is not the Quintet you'll get the right answer straight away.

The Wings, in their sixth incarnation (the one that released Mull), were in fact just a Trio. Correct on Ferry Aid.

Now guess the Quintet.

	02-05-2002 05:32									#66
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quote: Originally posted by Fiera You're wrong again! As a matter of a fact, the only thing I've been able to find is a 1982 #1 hit by Goombay Dance Band, a German/Montserrat collaboration effort according to my references.

Quite right. They hit #1 with a song called "Seven Tears". I wonder if it was a song about crying or ripped fabric. There have probably been more Montserratians in the charts. I have a list in the back of one of my books that details hits by nationality. Unfortunately, they classify Montserrat as British.

quote: But your question was mean, anyway.

Why should today be different? Anyway, the answer is Arrow, a male vocalist. He had two chart entries - "Hot Hot Hot", reached #59 in '84, and "Long Time", reached #30 in '85. The latter proved not to be prophetic. The former seems to have been relased on his own label - which speaks volumes - and the latter was released on the London label.

PS. I hope you weren't anywhere near that bomb, were you?

	02-05-2002 05:37									#67
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quote: Originally posted by Snapcase Well I've told you too much, since if I say Mull of Kintyre is not the Quintet you'll get the right answer straight away. The Wings, in their sixth incarnation (the one that released Mull), were in fact just a Trio. Correct on Ferry Aid. Now guess the Quintet.

Yikes! I sleep in one morning, get to the computer late and discover Fiera answering everything!

Hmmm. I'll go back to the long song and album titles.

	02-05-2002 05:40									#68
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Ha, I got it!!! The Beatles with Billy Preston, "Get Back"!

	02-05-2002 05:41									#69
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Cross Post. Yes, of course it is.

	02-05-2002 05:45									#70
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quote: Originally posted by finbar PS. I hope you weren't anywhere near that bomb, were you?

I could have been, had I decided to go earlier to the stadium! It was the Champions League semifinals today, you see, but the blast was fortunately almost four hours before the match. I couldn't go and hang out with my friends near the stadium, as I'm wont to do, 'cause we were all quite scared. Bastards...

	02-05-2002 05:47									#71
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Oh, and you expected me to guess a guy from Montserrat whose greater hit was a #30... You overstimate my knowledge, if such a word exists in English...

	02-05-2002 07:34									#72
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I have to say, Fiera - and please don't take this as patronising - but your English is now astonishing. Full of all sorts of idiosyncracies. I reckon you're just about ripe to acquire some Australian-isms!

Of course, they'll set your English back about 20 years ...

	02-05-2002 07:46									#73
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quote: Originally posted by finbar I have to say, Fiera - and please don't take this as patronising - but your English is now astonishing. Full of all sorts of idiosyncracies.

Thanks, that's great to hear! I've been working on it, of course, and I can tell you that your posts provide me with a lot of new words (ie, ripe), but I must keep on improving- I plan on spending next year in LA (I must especially improve my spoken English but that's another story). So feel free to correct me whenever I make a mistake!

Oh, and in case you're wondering, tomorrow is a holiday too, but only in Madrid!

	02-05-2002 09:48									#74
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I don't know that you need a great deal of English to get by in LA. You see, they can't spell over there. They - the lazy buggers - omit the letter "u" from a lot of words. Like, for example, "colour", which they spell "color". I'd just stick to Spanish.

I assume the holiday relates to the football result!

	02-05-2002 13:55									#75
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Wrong, the 2nd of May is the day the people of Madrid opposed resistance to the troops of Napoleon, in 1808, thus beginning the War of Independence (or Peninsular War). We are full of nice traditions!

	02-05-2002 15:06									#76
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I think I'd better supply another question or two before this degenerates futher into the Geriatric Nursing Home Social Hour theme.

(Still British Charts)

Ten people have had posthumous* #1 records. Can you name them all?

What is the biggest-selling single in history never to have reached the #1 spot?

*Yes, this is where I originally wrote "Post-Humorous". Laugh at me, ha ha ha.

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	02-05-2002 15:43									#77
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quote: Originally posted by Snapcase post-humorous

?????

	02-05-2002 15:53									#78
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typo. Posthumous, of course.

	02-05-2002 15:55									#79
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Ah, I see. I thought you meant something like if Bennie Hill had had a No. 1 after "Ernie".

	02-05-2002 15:57									#80
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Benny Hill and "post-humorous" don't go together, mainly because there's no "humorous" phase to preceed it.

	02-05-2002 15:58									#81
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Tell that to some of our US posters.

	02-05-2002 17:17									#82
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Enough said.

Well, Snappy, John Lennon for starters. The "Imagine" re-release went to #1 shortly after you-know-what.

BTW, these long song and album titles are giving me the irrits!

Edit. Hang about, Lennon did it twice. "Woman" went to #1 in 1981. Does that mean I only have to find eight more?

	02-05-2002 17:24									#83
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Elvis Presley did it. "Way Down" entered the charts 4 days before he died in 1977 and went on to reach #1. Ergo, it must be posthumous.

Hendrix did it not long after his death in 1970 with "Voodoo Chile".

Edit. Hang about again! It famously happened recently! That girl who was killed in the plane crash had a posthumous #1 and it was replaced by another one with George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord". Phew ... two in one go.

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	02-05-2002 17:55									#84
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Jim Reeves did it in '66 with "Distant Drums". I'd better go and check out Patsy Cline.

Edit. Nuh. Patsy didn't do it. Quite surprised to find, in fact, that she only had two singles in the Brit charts and the highest she got was #31.

	02-05-2002 18:04									#85
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Buddy Holly, of course, did it in 1959 with "It Doesn't Matter Anymore".

	02-05-2002 19:27									#86
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quote: Originally posted by finbar Enough said. Well, Snappy, John Lennon for starters. The "Imagine" re-release went to #1 shortly after you-know-what. BTW, these long song and album titles are giving me the irrits! Edit. Hang about, Lennon did it twice. "Woman" went to #1 in 1981. Does that mean I only have to find eight more?

Sorry. Lennon has in fact had three Posthumous #1s, the first being "Just Like (Starting Over)". Naw, I meant ten individuals.

Correct so far: Lennon, Henrix, Presley, Aaliyah, Harrison, Jim Reeves, Buddy Holly.

Three more. One in the sixties, one in the eighties (but the song is much older, in fact it has its own "slowest climb" record in the singles category), one (with two separate entries) in the nineties.

	02-05-2002 19:30									#87
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Freddie Mercury with "Living on my own". Perhaps you're counting "Bohemian Rhapsody" (with Queen) as his other entry?

	02-05-2002 19:33									#88
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Yes. I mean, he was dead.

	02-05-2002 19:42									#89
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I thought perhaps only solo hits were valid entries, since the rest of the group were (are) fortunately alive.

	02-05-2002 19:49									#90
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I don't know about "fortunately"...

All the other entries are solo, and since he had a solo hit too there really is no controversy.