Bibliogryphon

Or he might just go all Duke of Winsdor and be slavishly devoted to her until he dies whether she deserves it or not

56 The Pretenders — Brass in Pocket 54 The Police — Don't Stand So Close to Me 42 Blondie — Call me 40 The Specials — Ghost Town 39 The Jam — Going Underground / Dreams of Children -6 37 Blondie — Atomic 36 David Bowie — Ashes to Ashes +2 36 Soft Cell — Tainted Love 35 Adam & the Ants — Stand and Deliver +2 28 ABBA — The Winner Takes It All 27 The Specials — Too Much Too Young 25 The Police — Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 16 The Jam — Start! 13 The Human League — Don't You Want Me 09 David Bowie & Queen — Under Pressure

Will swap him for Sandy Gall

I have Harry Belafonte

I limited myself to one Kate Bush and there was other stuff in 85 that I wanted to include. Note there is no Genesis here because their best stuff is album tracks

@msc 1986 - Queen: A Kind of Magic I actually had to check because I was convinced this reached No.1

I tried not to go to obscure. Thinking of things that actually charted and on another day I would make different choices

I was tempted to put this in @Book 's Kill or Save 80's thread but I don't want to interrupt the game as it can get quite chaotic at the best of times bit I thought about all the songs that will not crop up in that game. I have picked one from each year and only used each artist once 1980 Babooshka - Kate Bush 1981 Wordy Rappinghood - Tom Tom Club 1982 Senses Working Overtime - XTC 1983 Drop The Pilot - Joan Armatrading 1984 A New England - Kirsty MacColl 1985 Road to Nowhere - Talking Heads 1986 Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel 1987 This Corrosion - Sisters of Mercy 1988 She Makes My Day - Robert Palmer 1989 Don't Ask Me Why - Eurythmics

It's early days yet. Only one hit on the board. I posted half an hour after midnight on NYD and still had to replace four picks

Well Gianluca Vialli checking out before the game begins is a massive man-trap avoided for the 2023 game

48 The Pretenders – Brass in Pocket 47 The Specials — Ghost Town 47 Blondie — Atomic 47 The Police – Don't Stand So Close to Me 40 David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes +4 39 The Jam – Going Underground / Dreams of Children -6 36 Blondie – Call Me 36 ABBA — The Winner Takes It All 33 Adam & the Ants – Stand and Deliver 32 Soft Cell — Tainted love 29 The Specials – Too Much Too Young 24 The Jam – Start! 24 The Police – Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic  24 Adam & the Ants – Prince Charming  20 David Bowie & Queen – Under Pressure 11 The Human League – Don't You Want Me

Congrats to @WEP 1923 Henry Kissinger/Gloria Whelan 1924 Jimmy Carter/Eva Marie Saint 1925 Pete Murray/Ysanne Churchman 1926 Timothy Dudley-Smith/Judith Magre 1927 Sandy Gall/Leontyne Price 1928 Joss Ackland/Queen Ratna of Nepal 1929 John Woodvine/Imelda Marcos 1930 Douglas Hurd/Edna O'Brien  1931 Ken Bates/Leslie Caron 1932 Roy Hattersley/Prunella Scales

I was backing Super Trooper over Winner but it is one of the better ABBA tracks. I remember NME including it on a list of most depressing songs ever. (For content not quality)

I prefer Start! to Going Underground and Call Me to Atomic I thought Under Pressure would do a lot better as well as Don't You Want Me which to me is an iconic Eighties track

It feels like it has been left over from the Seventies. There is a lot more here with substance

Great fun @Book It is rare for me to be at the top of any table and happy with my joint win shared with @ThereWillBeDeaths7

47 Blondie — Atomic 47 The Specials – Ghost Town 46 David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes 43 The Police – Don't Stand So Close to Me 41 The Jam – Going Underground / Dreams of Children -1 41 The Pretenders – Brass in Pocket 40 Soft Cell – Tainted Love 40 ABBA – The Winner Takes It All 32 Blondie – Call Me 32 Adam & the Ants – Stand and Deliver +2 29 The Specials – Too Much Too Young 28 Adam & the Ants – Prince Charming 26 David Bowie & Queen – Under Pressure 24 The Police – Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 24 The Jam – Start! 13 Detroit Spinners – Working my Way Back to You 12 Olivia Newton-John & ELO – Xanadu +2 12 The Human League – Don't You Want Me 10 Dexy's Midnight Runners – Geno 5 Roxy Music – Jealous Guy -5

She wrote the book that the Meryl Streep, Rosanne Barr film The Life & Loves of a She-Devil was based earlier it had been a much better BBC TV series. She adapted Pride & Prejudice for the BBC but not the version that everyone still talks about. Big news in British literary circles

Be my guest.

Our Flag Means Death comes to BBC2 from tonight. Very funny but might be a bit 'woke' for those that don't like that sort of thing

There is an update for the masterlist for the Time category I incorrectly rejected a pick from @BuffaloPhil which would have given them a unique pick rather than use their sub so I will include Katie Couric as a unique and remove one of the picks of Jurgen Habermas

Not had time to run one because of Scavenger Hunt but please feel free to organise

No apology needed just an observation and a reminder to make sure you enter every time to keep those hits coming in

Hell did not score for Pope Benedict as they did not enter after the last hit