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David Bowie was always the bridesmaid but never the bride in the KoS games. He usually had a song in the final, and, before this game, his best result was two back to back number 2 placements with Space Oddity & Ashes to Ashes in the 70's and 80's No.1 games, respectively. The Deathlist forums might not be the best selling show (the most visited website?), but it has voted Life on Mars? as the best number 3 hit of the 70s. Rather fittingly, the previous winner was Murder on the Dancefloor, so now both the "Kill" and "Save" aspects of the game have been represented in a winning song, such poetry in motion that hasn't been seen since Johnny Tillotson. The Life on Mars? single peaked at number 3 for 3 weeks in July of 1973 (a lot of 3's in that sentence!), being beaten by Slade's Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me, Peters and Lee's Welcome Home, and Gary Glitter's I'm the Leader of the Gang. Whether you like those songs or not, they're surely a saddening bore compared to the winner of this game. Anyway, this is how the finale played out: 01 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 02 Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street 03 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes 04 R. Dean Taylor - There’s A Ghost in My House 05 Electric Light Orchestra - Don’t Bring Me Down 06 ABBA - Money, Money, Money 07 The Jam - The Eton Rifles 08 David Bowie - Sound and Vision 09 Suzi Quatro- 48 Crash 10 ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) 11 America - A Horse With No Name 12 Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony - The Hustle 13 Donna Summer - Love’s Unkind 14 The Rolling Stones - Miss You 15 The Four Tops - A Simple Game 16 The Four Seasons - Silver Star 17 Edwin Starr - War 18 Lulu - The Man Who Sold The World 19 Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3 20 Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden 21 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around The Bend 22 Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love 23 Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run 24 The Wombles - Remember You’re a Womble 25 Carly Simon- You’re So Vain (Spotify Playlist for this game) And these were the 25 worst No. 3's of the 70s: Cilla Black- Something Tells Me (Something’s Gonna Happen Tonight) The Piglets- Johnny Reggae Tony Orlando & Dawn- What Are You Doing Sunday? Blue Mink- The Banner Man Donny Osmond- Why The Partridge Family- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do Michael Jackson- Rockin’ Robin David Cassidy- I Am a Clown/Some Kind of a Summer Faron Young- It’s Four in the Morning Gary Glitter- Remember Me This Way Mac and Katie Kissoon- Sugar Candy Kisses Peters and Lee- Don’t Stay Away Too Long The Moments and Whatnauts- Girls Mud- The Secrets That You Keep Barbra Streisand- Evergreen (Love Theme from “A Star is Born”) Showaddywaddy- When Hank Mizell- Jungle Rock Berni Flint- I Don’t Want to Put a Hold On You The Barron Knights- A Taste of Aggro Dean Friedman- Lucky Stars Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley- If I Had Words Boney M.- Hooray! Hooray! It’s a Holi-Holiday The Bellamy Brothers- If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me The Dooleys- Wanted James Galway- Annie’s Song Thanks to everyone for voting, I'll try to get the 80's game running soon, but I'm a bit busy at the moment, so if I take some time, that's the reason why.

Excited it’s Polling Day Eve. Remember to leave out a mince pie and a brandy tonight for Father Curtice.

Ashi Tsering Yangzom (Tessla Dorji), widow of Jigme Palden Dorji, Bhutan's first Prime Minister who was assasinated in 1964, dead at 100. Also the daughter of General Tsarong and the sister-in-law of Royal Grandmother Kesang Choden (94) and Ashi Tashi Dorji (100)

Robert Towne dead at 89.

Welcome to another edition of Kill or Save. I suck at presenting stuff so I'll just go straight to the rules. If you wanna revisit the previous games, here are the links to their respective topics. 60s No.1s; 70s No.1s; 80s No.1s; 90s No.1s; 00s No.1s, 10s No.1 60s No.2s; 70s No.2s; 80s No.2s; 90s No.2s; 00s No. 2s 70s No.3s Christmas Special 2023 KoS HoF The Rolling Stones — Paint It, Black Donna Summer — I Feel Love Nena — 99 Red Balloons Madonna — Vogue Gorillaz — Dare The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl — Fairytale Of New York Barry Ryan — Eloise Queen — Somebody To Love A-Ha — Take On Me The Cardigans — Lovefool Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Murder On The Dancefloor David Bowie- Life on Mars? We've done this 12 times before, but here are the rules regardless: Each song starts with 20 points. You can vote once a day. Since we all live in different parts of the world with all sorts of different timezones, please add a date at the top of your votes to avoid any type of confusion (e.g. 3/7/24, 3th of July, Wed 3 Jul, etc.). Each day you can give 4 points and subtract 6 points to any song on the board, you can split your points between as many songs as you want. Placeholder posts are allowed, but if you don't edit your votes within 5 minutes, then the next person can go and do their votes. Consecutive votes are not allowed. Before voting, please listen to the songs of each round and vote according to your own opinions, don't vote for songs because they're high/low on the board or because of your opinions about the artist, only the song matters. Make sure you copy and paste the most recent voter's scoreboard when you take your turn to score. For your own ease, ‘paste as plain text’ to get rid of the previous poster’s formatting. Then, delete their +/- scores, add yours, adjust the song’s points total and make your scores bold. As an example, here's a random vote from last game's finale: Here are the UK No.3 songs of the 80's: There are 5 qualifying rounds, we begin with the no.3 hits of 1980/81, then 82/83 and so on. 5 songs from each round will enter the Grand Final, where we will decide the "best" UK No.3 Hit of the 80's 1980/81: 28 songs: the last 5 songs will enter the final. 1982/83: 32 songs: the last 5 songs will enter the final. 1984/85: 31 songs: the last 5 songs will enter the final. 1986/87: 33 songs: the last 5 songs will enter the final. 1988/89: 32 songs: the last 5 songs will enter the final.  So with that out of the way, let the killing and saving begin!

It will be worse at first, there's no escaping that. Putting things right will be a long and rough road.

That is the correct answer

My advice to you is to blast them with Sheena Easton's "9 to5" on repeat.

I remember the crushing feeling of 1992. As soon as Basildon called Tory, the game was up that night. I never thought I'd see 1997 again but my goodness are we close.

All 45 of you?

Wed 3 Jul 29 Madness - Baggy Trousers 28 The Vapors - Turning Japanese 28 Godley & Creme - Under Your Thumb 24 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Souvenir +4 22 ABBA - One Of Us 22 Madness - My Girl 22 Rainbow - I Surrender 21 Bad Manners - Special Brew 20 KC and The Sunshine Band - Please Don’t Go 20 Marti Webb - Take That Look Off Your Face 20 Michael Jackson - She’s Out Of My Life 20 Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway - Back Together Again 20 Stacy Lattisaw - Jump to the Beat 20 Elvis Presley - It’s Only Love/Beyond the Reef 20 The Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic 20 Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry 20 Stevie Wonder - Lately 20 Bad Manners - Can Can 20 Spandau Ballet - Chant No. 1 (I Don’t Need This Pressure On) 20 The Human League - Love Action (I Believe in Love) 20 Ottawan - Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart) 20 The Four Tops - When She Was My Girl 20 Earth, Wind & Fire - Let’s Groove 14 Sheena Easton - 9 to 5 14 The Nolans - I’m in the Mood for Dancing 10 Tony Capstick and the Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band - Capstick Comes Home/The Sheffield Grinder -4 06 Fiddler’s Dram - Day Trip to Bangor -2 Gods, there's some utter shite here. Sorry. @TQR Souvenir is my favourite OMD song, it's utterly blissful.

I wouldn't even like to make a prediction any more specific than Labour winning at least 400 seats, with a likelihood of them winning more than they did in 1997 (418), because I'm not just yearning for the Tories to come third behind the Lib Dems, I'm around 20% convinced it could actually happen. I don't think Reform will win more seats than you can count on one hand, I think the Greens will get 3 of their 4 target seats, and the SNP are going to get about the kind of pummelling the polls expect them to.

Mr Mercer stood on the roundabout with his wife and placards this morning. Up rocks veterans who said he's done nothing for them. Mrs Mercer calls the police. Police- what can we do? They're doing nothing wrong. https://x.com/AndyR960/status/1808433609298075746?t=JjqCy8MDVZvtccHuXHtAHA&s=19

Then at 9am: "This is Davina, you're live in Downing Street! Please don't swear! ESPECIALLY YOU ANDREA JENKYNS!!!!" "

80 years on and Nye Bevans words still ring true

This would be the icing on the cake

Aye, totally with you, and also he blew his final seconds of phone battery ringing a mate in Manchester, likely got so disorientated in the final hour or so of dehydration that he blundered about, got lost and landed deep in a ravine. Surprised, a little, that the searchers didn't notice circling scavenging birds somewhere, but maybe the foraging ground animals got there first because he's deep in that ravine. Pretty sad, either way

https://x.com/LeeMann32/status/1666889157501648898?t=B_3cs6BNbVGu3-QrSAghHQ&s=19 My meme for 2am Friday morning.... as the Tories start to crash.

3/Jul/2024 66 Years & Years — King +2 58 Kiesza — Hideaway 56 Pitbull ft. Kesha — Timber +2 54 Ella Henderson — Ghost 51 Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars — Uptown Funk 49 Justin Bieber — Love Yourself 46 Adele — Hello 37 Pharrell Williams — Happy 37 Little Mix — Black Magic 36 Calvin Harris — Summer 33 Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne — Rather Be 32 Magic — Rude 31 Ellie Goulding — Love Me Like You Do 28 Mr Probz — Waves 28 Omi — Cheerleader 28 Aloe Blacc — The Man 26 Duke Dumont ft. Jax Jones — I Got U 25 Sam Smith — Stay With Me 24 KDA ft. Tinie Tempah & Katy B — Turn The Music Louder 23 Tinie Tempah ft. Jess Glynne — Not Letting Go 23 Sigma — Nobody To Love 22 Rixton — Me And My Broken Heart 21 David Guetta ft. Sam Martin — Lovers On The Sun 20 5 Seconds Of Summer — She Looks So Perfect 20 Secondcity — I Wanna Feel 20 Calvin Harris ft. John Newman — Blame 19 Jess Glynne — Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself 17 Sigma ft. Paloma Faith — Changing 15 Cheryl Cole ft. Tinie Tempah — Crazy Stupid Love -2 13 Ariana Grande ft. Iggy Azalea — Problem -1 00 Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj — Bang Bang -3

3-7-24 61 David Bowie - Life on Mars? +4 00 Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street -5 I can be an old Lady if you like.

Right, who are you and what the fuck have you done with theoldlady?

Alfonso Maria Rojas Perdomo, the third oldest man in the world and the oldest person in Colombia dead at 111 https://longeviquest.com/2024/06/colombias-oldest-man-alfonso-rojas-perdomo-dies-at-111/

1997 was the first G.E. I could vote in. I remember feeling full of hope and positivity for what a new Labour government could bring. I'm not feeling that at all now. I mostly just feel desperate to kick the Tories out and hoping that Labour doesn't make things worse than they already are. Whether that's because Starmer et al are trying not to rock the boat in order to gain power, or another 27 years of life crushing hope out of me, or some combination of the 2 I don't know. There's also this little nagging voice in my head saying don't forget 1992, a Labour win isn't a done deal.

WOW! Major surprise death!