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Hooray, we got a winner from this KoS round: It's German Fräulin Wunder Nena! Congratulations! Who would have thought that??? I was surprised that she did that well in her own KoS (1984/85), but never guessed her to be the winner of the whole thing! Not bad! Maybe it's because the song is somehow overplayed in Germany, no Party without “99 Luftballons”. While Nena is called a one-hit-wonder internationally, she is still very successful in Germany as a solo artist (in her hey-days Nena was a whole band, up from the early 90s Nena is a solo artist). Her/Their discography shows 2 No.1 singles, further 13 Top 10-hits, 2 No. albums, further 8 top 10-albums. With 25 million records sold worldwide, she is one of the most successful musicians in the history of German pop music. And now she can also book winning the 80s UK No.1 hits KoS as a success! Well done! That has to be a highlight of her career! And here's our top 25 most popular UK No.1 hits of the 80's: 01. Nena – 99 red balloons 02. David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes (Youth in Asia) 03. Soft Cell – Tainted Love (ladyfiona) 04. Blondie – Atomic (RIP Wee Jum) 05. Kraftwerk – The Model / Computer Love (Book) 06. George Michael – Careless Whisper (CaptainChorizo) 07. Pet Shop Boys – It´s a sin (Imelda) 08. Madonna – Into the groove (Drewsky1211) 09. Men at Work – Down Under (Drewsky1211) 10. Madonna – Like a prayer (ladyfiona) 11. The Specials – Ghost Town (Book) 12. Madness – House of fun (Joey Russ) 13. a-ha – The sun always shines on TV (En Passant) 14. Communards & Sarah Jane Morris – Don´t leave me this way (Joey Russ) 15. Bee Gees – You win again (Drewsky1211) 16. Human League – Don´t you want me (Paul Bearer) 17. Eurythmics – There must be an angel (playing with my heart) (Youth in Asia) 18. Frankie goes to Hollywood – Two Tribes (Drewsky1211) 19. Belinda Carlisle – Heaven is a place on earth (En Passant) 20. Enya – Orinoco Flow (Toast) 21. The Bangles – Eternal Flame (Drewsky1211) 22. Bonnie Tyler – Total eclipse of the heart (Paul Bearer) 23. Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls (Youth in Asia) 24. The Jam – A town called Malice (wannamaker) 25. Kylie Minogue – I should be so lucky (msc) I would also like to crown Drewsky as a killer queen, congratulations! You killed most of the songs in this round Killer-Queens: 5 Drewsky1211 3 Youth in Asia 2 Book 2 En Passant 2 Joey Russ 2 ladyfiona 2 Paul Bearer 1 CaptainChorizo 1 Imelda 1 msc 1 RIP Wee Jum 1 Toast 1 wannamaker Thanks for playing again... and again... and again... the 90s are on its way!

44 Nena – 99 Red Balloons +4 0 David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes -5 They think it's all over. IT IS NOW!

Remember that not everyone makes it to 100 or is beyond 100.

He did survive brain surgery at 95 and helped build houses shortly before looking like he had been in a boxing ring.

In the end, Bowie finished in second and Blondie finished in fourth two games in a row

John Irving, the famous American novelist and screenwriter, author of fourteen novels, whose first novel, "Setting Free the Bears", was published in 1968, whose fourth novel, "The World According to Garp", won the National Book Award in 1980, and winner of an Oscar for adapting his own book "The Cider House Rules", is 81 today. Gordon Thomson, the accomplished Canadian actor, who started his career on stage in the 1960s, a classically trained stage actor, best known for his roles as the charismatic, hateful and sexy Adam Carrington on "Dynasty", and Mason Capwell, he assumed the role from Terry Lester, on "Santa Barbara", is 78 today.

38 Nena – 99 Red Balloons +4 13 David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes -1 00 Soft Cell – Tainted Love -5 Alex Drake is about to come in and make 10 accounts to try and save Ashes to Ashes.

Ryuho Okawa, founder/CEO of Japanese megacult Happy Science, has died of a stroke aged 66. No English language sources on the beat at this hour but I'm sure they will be published soon. Okawa was viewed as the current incarnation of the god "El Cantare" by his followers, and his cult notably had a rivalry with the much more infamous Aum Shinrikyo cult during the 1990's. Okawa even survived a sarin gas-based assassination attempt. Happy Science also made the news during the pandemic for their pushing of "spiritual vaccines" - essentially offering to pray the COVID out of people's bodies for the modest price of 400 bucks per blessing. Enjoy Hell, weirdo!

All of the final five songs here were in my top 10. So I do like Nena, but the result doesn’t sit right in the same way that Donna Summer winning the 70s game did. Roll on the 90s!

He was also in The Hunt For Red October and Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? In fact, Ackland is the only one still alive, of the few who I created a thread on at the conclusion of 2020 as Yaphet Kotto, André Maranne and Robert Fyfe all died in 2021.

Jon Bon Jovi is 61.

As much as I am going to lose it when he goes, that would be epic.

34 Nena – 99 Red Balloons +4 14 David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes 05 Soft Cell – Tainted Love -5 00 Blondie – Atomic -1

William "Dixie" Dean who once scored 60 league goals in a season for Everton, died of a heart attack whilst attending the Merseyside Derby today in 1980 aged 73.

Dianne Feinstein out of Washington "dealing with a health matter", whatever that could be.

Because while Clinton, Bush, and Obama did do war crimes, they still couldn't beat Kissinger in scale. Kissinger killed millions of people across the world, from Argentina, to Chile, to Bangladesh, to Cambodia, and everywhere else that was affected by him. He took his terror and spread blood across the world worse than any president could've done. In other words, Kissinger was worse because his war crimes happened across the Earth.

Croo... businessman and longtime chairman of Napoli Corrado Ferlaino, 91, hospitalised after heart attack, but "stable and improving"

Distantly by marriage but no blood relation. It's all a bit convoluted to explain. Mind you, we are all related to royalty in some fashion. I myself have several queens in my history.

Shania Twain released this great 25 years ago today: Robbie Williams released Let Me Entertain you 25 years ago and 20 years ago performed at Knebworth in front of 375,000 over a period of three days.

I’ve got a lovely bunch of…

It looks like we're going to wave farewell to January without a single strike. Has this ever happened before? IIRC last year 3 had gone before the turn of February, in what is usually a fairly brutal month

Ooh, that's a biggie! I'm not totally sure, but I guess he was an A-List name in the IT world. Now I'm tempted to ask you... are you an IT guy?

Golfer Charlie Sifford dead at 92. http://espn.go.com/golf/story/_/id/12276698/charlie-sifford-golf-pioneer-dies-92

Yeah, reading between the lines it's not too positive long term. Maybe , doesn't say what cancer he is suffering from though well not in the articles i read. However the language used would indicate he is up against it. The P.Rice is coming down (heh heh) Oh...my coat!