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Friday, June 17, 2005

You Came For Answers

Congratulations to Alex and Jean-Claude. These are the two folks who won our two PDP trivia challenges. Here are the answers, if you are curious.

For The Young Ones Challenge:
1. Rik played "Things That Dreams Are Made Of" off of Dare, thus causing the cops to bust the boys' hi-fi.
2. Christopher Ryan went on to play Eddie's first husband, Marshall, on Absolutely Fabulous.
3. Neneh Cherry's old band, Rip Rig and Panic, appeared on the episode titled "Interesting."
4. Madness played on The Young Ones twice.
5. At the end of the last episode of series two, the boys went over a cliff in a double-decker bus.

For the 80s Music Challenge:
1. James was a favorite of Morrissey. It is said that he wrote "We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful" after they hit it big in the UK. However, this was before they edged into the US pop charts in 1993 with "Laid."
2. Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden is known for his catchphrase, "Scream for me." It's also the URL for his website.
3. Bobby Gillespie drummed for the Jesus and Mary Chain before Primal Scream.
4. Some might say that the Scorpions brought down the Berlin Wall with 1990's hit "Wind of Change."
5. Radio and TV host Jools Holland was indeed a member of Squeeze.
6. Sir Bob Geldof was knighted for his work on Live Aid and "Do They Know It's Christmas."
7. Before her untimely death a few years ago, Ofra Haza was Kylie-huge in most of the world. Back in the late-80s, she made a bit of a mark in the U.S. after being sampled on "Paid in Full."
8. Bobby Orlando, aka Bobby O., produced the original (and my favorite) version of West End Girls.
9. Grandmaster Flash may be best associated with "White Lines" and "The Message," but it was Melle Mel who provided the rhymes.
10. After ditching Human League, Martyn Ware went on to form Heaven 17.

Comments:
Grandmaster Flash had nothing to do with "White Lines". Melle Mel hijacked the group from him. My 12" says "Grandmaster & Melle Mel", so I'm pretty sure they just brought in a generic grandmaster for that record.
 
Mine says the same thing, but Sonicnet and pretty much every record store, lyric site and MP3 site associates Flash with "White Lines." Also, if you hear it on the radio, it is usually announced as just Grandmaster Flash.
 
i heard a rumour that morrissey was banging tim booth from james back in the day. anybody else hear that? anybody else care?

jc
 
I never heard that one. Personally, I refuse to believe anything about Morrissey having sex with anyone. He will forever be the celibate sex god in my mind.
 
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