Great Uncle Bulgaria

A right pile of number 2s. Terence Trent Darby and Alice Cooper are OK, I suppose

31 Enya – Orinoco Flow +4 29 The Bangles – Eternal Flame 28 Belinda Carlisle – Heaven is a place on earth 28 Kylie Minogue – Hand on your heart 27 Soul II Soul ft. Caron Wheeler – Back to life (However do you want me) 25 Gerry Marsden, Paul McCartney, Holly Johnson & the Christians — Ferry `cross the Mersey 24 Lisa Stansfield – All around the world 24 Black Box – Ride on Time 23 Simple Minds – Belfast Child (Ballad of the streets EP) 23 S-Express – Theme from S-Express 22 Phil Collins – A groovy kind of love 22 Tiffany – I think we´re alone now 21 Yazz & the Plastic Population – The only way is up 21 Cliff Richard – Mistletoe and wine 21 Pet Shop Boys – Heart 21 Aswad – Don´t turn around 20 Kylie Minogue – I should be so lucky 20 Bros – I owe you nothing 20 Glenn Medeiros – Nothing´s gonna change my love for you 20 Jason Donovan – Too many broken hearts 20 Jason Donovan – Sealed with a kiss 20 Sonia – You´ll never stop me from loving you 19 Madonna — Like a prayer 18 Robin Beck – First Time 17 Wet Wet Wet – With a little help from my friends / Billy Bragg – She´s leaving home 17 Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan – Especially for you 17 New Kids on the Block – You´ve got it (The right stuff) 16 U2 – Desire 16 Whitney Houston – One moment in time 14 Fairground Attraction – Perfect 13 Marc Almond & Gene Pitney – Something`s gotten hold of my heart  9 Band Aid II – Do they know it´s Christmas? -6 6 Time Lords – Doctorin’ the Tardis 2 Hollies – He aint`t heavy, he`s my brother Nice to see the song about the young womble going sailing on top....

Each to his own obviously, but you have 3 lots of Jive Bunny, crap charity singles, dull cover versions and one of Cliff's naffest, and you think this is the worst one there?

24 Kylie Minogue – Hand on your heart 22 Gerry Marsden, Paul McCartney, Holly Johnson & the Christians – Ferry ´cross the Mersey 22 Belinda Carlisle – Heaven is a place on earth 20 Tiffany – I think we´re alone now 20 Kylie Minogue – I should be so lucky 20 Asward – Don´t turn around 20 Pet Shop Boys – Heart 20 S-Express – Theme from S-Express 20 Fairground Attraction – Perfect 20 Wet Wet Wet – With a little help from my friends / Billy Bragg – She´s leaving home 20 Time Lords – Doctorin´ the Tardis 20 Bros – I owe you nothing 20 Glenn Medeiros – Nothing´s gonna change my love for you 20 Yazz & the Plastic Population – The only way is up 20 Phil Collins – A groovy kind of love 20 U2 – Desire 20 Whitney Houston – One moment in time 20 Enya – Orinoco Flow 20 Robin Beck – First Time 20 Cliff Richard – Mistletoe and wine 20 Marc Almond & Gene Pitney – Something´s gotten hold of my heart 20 Simple Minds – Belfast Child (Ballad of the streets EP) 20 Jason Donovan – Too many broken hearts 20 Madonna – Like a prayer 20 The Bangles – Eternal Flame 20 Jason Donovan – Sealed with a kiss 20 Soul II Soul ft. Caron Wheeler – Back to life (However do you want me) 20 Sonia – You´ll never stop me from loving you 20 Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers – Swing the Mood 20 Black Box – Ride on time 20 Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers – That´s what I like 20 Lisa Stansfield – All around the world 20 New Kids on the Block – You´ve got it (The right stuff) 18 Hollies – He ain´t heavy, he´s my brother +4 17 Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan – Especially for you 17 Band Aid II – Do they know it´s Christmas? 14 Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers – Let´s party -6 This is the period I lost interest in contemporary pop music and got into classical instead. So much dross. Hard to pick 5 I like. Let the bunny shoot commence.

60 a-ha – The Sun Always Shines on TV 43 The Communards & Sarah Jane Morris – Don’t Leave Me This Way 34 Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin 34 Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls 25 Whitney Houston – I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) +4 25 Bee Gees – You Win Again 23 Rick Astley — Never Gonna Give You Up 9 Falco – Rock Me Amadeus -6 03 Madonna – La Isla Bonita

59 A-ha – The Sun Always Shines on TV 39 The Communards & Sarah Jane Morris – Don’t Leave Me This Way 39 Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin 34 Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) +3 32 Pet Shop Boys — West End Girls +1 24 Rick Astley — Never Gonna Give You Up 23 Madonna — La Isla Bonita 21 Bee Gees — You Win Again 19 Falco – Rock Me Amadeus -6 10 George Michael & Aretha Franklin – I Knew You Were Waiting For Me Happy with that top 5. FAO whoever keeps changing Rick Astley to Ashley, the former is correct.

57 A-ha – The Sun Always Shines on TV 47 The Communards & Sarah Jane Morris – Don’t Leave Me This Way 40 Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin 35 Whitney Houston – I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) +4 31 Madonna — La Isla Bonita 29 Falco – Rock Me Amadeus -2 25 Bee Gees — You win again 22 Pet Shop Boys — West End Girls 22 George Michael & Aretha Franklin – I Knew You Were Waiting For Me 22 Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up 11 Starship — Nothing`s Gonna Stop Us Now 9 Madonna – Papa Don’t Preach -2 00 Berlin — Take My Breath Away - 2 OK you asked, I delivered

Back in harness today after a week's holiday in Canaries. The hotel ran a music quiz night last Friday Effectively the deciding question (as GAB and I triumphed over international opposition) was 'how old is Tina Turner?', which no one else knew. Moral of the story - deadpooling can win you free booze.

58 A-ha – The Sun Always Shines On TV  46 Communards & Sarah Jane Morris – Don’t Leave Me This Way 38 Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin 32 Madonna – La Isla Bonita 30 Rick Astley — Never Gonna Give You Up 29 Whitney Houston – I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) +2 28 Starship – Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now 26 Falco – Rock Me Amadeus 23 Bee Gees - You Win Again  21 Pet Shop Boys — West End Girls 21 George Michael & Aretha Franklin – I Knew You Were Waiting For Me 19 Mel & Kim — Respectable 14 Berlin – Take My Breath Away -1 12 Madonna – Papa Don’t Preach 09 T’Pau – China In Your Hand +2 02 Wham – The Edge of Heaven  00 Los Lobos — La Bamba -5 Back after a week's holiday. Preferred the previous set of songs. Looks like the worst has already gone as nothing truly dreadful here, but a pointless cover version looks like a good place to start with my killing.

Vassiliy Dobritsa please.

70 George Michael – Careless Whisper 63 Nena – 99 Red Balloons 61 Madonna – Into the Groove 36 Eurythmics – There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart) +2 31 Duran Duran — The Reflex +2 28 Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Relax 26 Philip Bailey & Phil Collins – Easy Lover 24 Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) 18 Feargal Sharkey — A Good Heart 9 Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Two Tribes -4 0 Chaka Khan – I Feel for You (but you see no movement because I'm dead) -2

64 George Michael – Careless Whisper 58 Nena – 99 Red Balloons 58 Madonna – Into the Groove 33 Frankie Goes to Hollywood — Two Tribes -2 33 Eurythmics — There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart) 30 Duran Duran – The Reflex 30 Fergal Sharkey — A Good Heart +4 26 Frankie Goes to Hollywood — Relax 24 Philip Bailey & Phil Collins – Easy Lover 22 Chaka Khan – I Feel for You -4 18 Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) 14 Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

Heyrettin out at Maidstone, Elokobi caretaker. 4 months after the game ended still got 2 in post. Ironically my last 3 standing are/were all non-league, wasn't expecting that given the amount of money around at that level. Maybe they can't afford to sack people.

61 Nena – 99 Red Balloons +2 59 George Michael – Careless Whisper 46 Madonna — Into the Groove +1 38 Eurythmics – There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart) 33 Frankie Goes to Hollywood — Relax 33 Midge Ure - If I Was 31 Feargal Sharkey — A Good Heart 30 Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Two Tribes 26 Duran Duran – The Reflex +1 25 Chaka Khan – I Feel for You -3 24 Philip Bailey & Phil Collins – Easy Lover 22 Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) 21 Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go 9 Wham! – Freedom 6 Wham! – I’m Your Man -3

51 George Michael – Careless Whisper 46 Nena – 99 Red Balloons 39 Frankie goes to Hollywood – Relax 39 Madonna – Into The Groove 31 Eurythmics – There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart) 30 Feargal Sharkey – A Good Heart 28 Midge Ure – If I Was 28 Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Two Tribes 27 Philip Bailey & Phil Collins – Easy Lover 25 Duran Duran – The Reflex 25 Chaka Khan – I feel for you 22 Dead or Alive – You spin me round (like a record) 19 Wham – Wake me up before you go go 17 Wham – Freedom 16 Wham – I`m your man 13 Phyllis Nelson – Move Closer 13 Paul Hardcastle – 19 12 Shakin´ Stevens – Merry Christmas everyone 12 UB40 & Chrissie Hynde – I got you babe 11 Jim Diamond – I should have known better +2 08 Frankie goes to Hollywood – The power of love +2 06 Foreigner – I want to know what love is -6 04 David Bowie & Mick Jagger – Dancing in the street Some rearranging of the Titanic's deckchairs....

42 George Michael — Careless Whisper 38 Nena – 99 Red Balloons 37 Madonna – Into The Groove 34 Feargal Sharkey – A Good Heart +4 27 Frankie goes to Hollywood – Relax 27 Philip Bailey & Phil Collins – Easy Lover 26 Eurythmics – There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart) 26 Phyllis Nelson – Move Closer 23 Midge Ure – If I Was 23 Dead or Alive – You spin me round (like a record) 21 Frankie goes to Hollywood – The power of love 21 Duran Duran – The Reflex 21 Chaka Khan – I feel for you 21 Foreigner – I want to know what love is 21 Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Two Tribes 20 Jim Diamond – I should have known better +2 20 Shakin´ Stevens – Merry Christmas everyone +1 18 Wham – I`m your man 17 Wham – Freedom 17 Wham – Wake me up before you go go +1 15 UB40 & Chrissie Hynde – I got you babe 12 Sister Sledge – Frankie -6 11 Lionel Richie – Hello 11 Whitney Houston – Saving all my love for you 11 Paul Hardcastle – 19 9 Jennifer Rush – The power of love 7 David Bowie & Mick Jagger – Dancing in the street

Part of my aversion to it stems from knowing how capable he had been up to then. All those award-winning albums of the 70s and only 2-3 years previously he had produced Hotter than July, which had 4 pretty decent top 10 singles. I know he did have some (mostly very minor ) hits afterwards but I can't remember any of them - my recollection is he pretty much killed his career/musical credibility with one (IMHO) awful song. There are several better 'last 10 minutes at the disco quick grope' songs on this list - notably Move Closer and the FGTH Power of Love.

Just spotted I failed to subtract the -3 I gave the Crowd from its total so it should now have 12. Can the next person incorporate, thanks.

My teams are all present and correct, thanks.

Had to re-do this twice when other people voted just as I was about to.. 28 George Michael – Careless Whisper 28 Madonna – Into the groove +1 25 Eurythmics – There must be an angel (playing with my heart) +1 22 Whitney Houston – Saving all my love for you 23 Nena — 99 red balloons +1 21 Wham – Wake me up before you go go 21 Dead or Alive – You spin me round (like a record) 21 Feargal Sharkey — A good heart 21 Duran Duran — The Reflex 21 Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes 21 Midge Ure - If I Was 21 Philip Bailey & Phil Collins – Easy Lover 21 Frankie goes to Hollywood – The power of love +1 20 Paul McCartney - Pipes of Peace 20 Frankie goes to Hollywood – Relax 20 Stevie Wonder – I just called to say I love you 20 Wham – Freedom 20 Chaka Khan – I feel for you 20 Jim Diamond – I should have known better 20 Foreigner – I want to know what love is 20 Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson – I know him so well 20 Phyllis Nelson – Move closer 20 UB40 & Chrissie Hynde – I got you babe 20 Jennifer Rush – The power of love 20 Shakin´ Stevens – Merry Christmas everyone 20 Wham — I`m your man 18 Sister Sledge – Frankie -2 17 Lionel Richie – Hello 14 Paul Hardcastle – 19 15 Crowd - You'll Never Walk Alone -3 12 David Bowie & Mick Jagger – Dancing in the street 11 Band Aid - Do They Know it's Christmas? 0 USA for Africa – We are first out -1 Apart from the charity singles, the naff (sister sledge) Frankie and the credibility-endingly trite Stevie wonder song, not too many obvious quick kills,

I agree with that bit at least.

Working on the principle that the ones I've never heard of are to be avoided because people who take this sort of thing much more seriously than me know what they're doing, here goes 1. Donald Trump 2. Vladimir Putin 3. Phil Collins 4. Ozzie Osborne 5. Janey Godley 6. Yoko Ono 7. Ted Kaczynski 8. Shane McGowan 9. Willie Nelson 10. Billy Connolly 11 Clint Eastwood 12 Prunella Scales 13 Rhod Gilbert 14 Shannen Doherty 15 Eva Marie Saint 16 Dick van Dyke 17 Rupert Murdoch 18 Buzz Aldrin 19 Linda Nolan 20 Bill Cosby 21 Glynis Johns 22 James Whale 23 Mel Brooks 24 Randy Jackson 25 Stanley Baxter subs Cleo Laine, M J Fox Where's Gazza, by the way? He's always on here...

66 Kraftwerk – The Model / Computer Love 54 Madness – House of Fun 50 Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the heart -6 37 Men at Work – Down Under 25 The Police — Every breath you take 20 The Jam – Town called Malice / Precious +4 13 Irene Cara — Fame

62 Kraftwerk – The Model / Computer Love 62 Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the heart 56 Madness – House of Fun 32 The Jam – Town called Malice +4 29 Men at Work – Down Under 28 The Police – Every breath you take 13 Irene Cara – Fame  12 Duran Duran – Is There Something I Should Know? 10 David Bowie – Let's Dance -6 07 Culture Club – Do you really want to hurt me?

57 Kraftwerk – The Model / Computer Love 52 Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the Heart 47 Madness – House of Fun 38 The Jam — Town called Malice +4 30 The Police – Every breath you take - 29 Men at Work – Down Under 29 Culture Club – Do you really want to hurt me? 25 Duran Duran – Is There Something I Should Know? 23 David Bowie – Let's Dance -6 17 Flying Pickets – Only You 10 Irene Cara — Fame  8 Eddy Grant – I Don't Wanna Dance My +4 for the Jam puts their total back where they should be in this game after GUN gave them 8