Bibliogryphon

53 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights +4 30 Donna Summer – I Feel Love 25 Blondie – Heart of Glass 20 David Bowie – Space Oddity -6

This is a fantastic battle

46 David Bowie – Space Oddity -6 45 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights +4 41 Donna Summer – I Feel Love 30 Blondie – Heart of Glass

If everyone down voted the bottom 4 we would still need 21 more players to put their votes in. I haven't been monitoring how many people vote each day

Considering my complaints about lack of female vocalists in the early rounds they seem to have done quite well

49 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights +4 48 Donna Summer - I Feel Love -3 46 David Bowie – Space Oddity 35 Blondie – Heart of Glass 16 ABBA – The Name of the Game -3

52 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights +4 45 Donna Summer – I Feel Love -4 44 David Bowie – Space Oddity +4 35 ABBA – The Name of the Game 29 Blondie – Heart of Glass 9 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 8 Gary Numan – Cars -6

Just seen this on the Babylon 5 page on Facebook but it is probably better here Walter Koenig's wife Judy Levitt Koenig has died she appeared in a couple of the Star Trek Movies and had a cameo on B5

49 Blondie – Heart of Glass 49 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights +4 46 Donna Summer – I Feel Love 36 David Bowie – Space Oddity 35 ABBA – The Name of the Game -3 29 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 13 Gary Numan – Cars -3 9 T.Rex – Get It On

Sorry I have Pete Murray

Ah this must be a new definition of the word celebrity of which I was not previously aware.....

Eleven entries are now in and are all verified. From tomorrow I will be largely away from my spreadsheets and notes so verification might have to wait until I get back but the game will begin on Jan 1 and every player who DMs me a team before then will be included

Congrats @arghton 1922 Juli Lynne Charlot/John B. Goodenough 1923 Gloria Whelan/ Jack Burke 1924 Anne Vernon/Sheldon Harnick 1925 Ysanne Churchman/Pete Murray 1926 Judith Magre/Timothy Dudley-Smith 1927 Leontyne Price/Kenneth Anger 1928 Queen Ratna of Nepal/James Watson  1929 Imelda Marcos/John Woodvine 1930 Edna O'Brien/Stanley Wells  1931 Leslie Caron/Ken Bates

51 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights +2 45 Donna Summer – I Feel Love 41 David Bowie – Space Oddity 34 ABBA – The Name of the Game -3 34 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 31 Blondie – Heart of Glass 25 Gary Numan – Cars -3 17 ABBA – Knowing Me, Knowing You +2 14 T.Rex – Get It On 8 Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive 4 Sweet – Blockbuster

If it is your own personal shadow list then you can be your own judge but if you are entering it into one of the competition the game runner will advise on eligibility. Expecting to get an English language obituary is the usual criteria

I am as guilty as anyone about making spurious lists but I think what people are looking for is that the list have some specific point to them or that they introduce some new information. I hope that helps

If you did that you would get into all kinds of difficulties: Which version of Winter Wonderland or Santa Baby* do you include? *If the answer is anything other than Kylie or Eartha Kitt then it is wrong

The song was written very quickly and from a place of great anger A little more reflection might have considered what the exact message was but it did raise a huge amount of cash and generated a global movement and one of the biggest cultural touchstones of the eighties

Number ones tend to fall into two categories The flavour of the month category which sees multiple No.1s just because they are extremely popular at that moment in time the songs from Grease would fit into this category and then you have stand out songs that capture the imagination. The three you mentioned all belong in this category. They all stood out from everything else around and often established the artist reputation for the future. There is an element of ubiquity about some of these tracks but that should not take away how impressive they are musically.

I hope no Scavenger Hunt players who haven't put their teams in are reading these lists

49 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights +2 44 Donna Summer – I Feel Love 40 David Bowie – Space Oddity 33 ABBA – The Name of the Game 31 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 28 ABBA – Knowing Me, Knowing You +2 27 Gary Numan – Cars -3 25 Blondie – Heart of Glass 21 Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive 17 Baccara – Yes Sir, I Can Boogie 14 T.Rex – Get It On  11 The Sweet – Blockbuster - 0 Alice Cooper – School's Out -3 Everything that is left I like

Six of the top 8 are on my playlist.

They have just published images of the bank notes that will feature Charles on them However they are not entering Circulation until 2024. Optimism at work

On Twitter someone did a series of polls for the best album of 1978 though it was done by polls of tracks from the album playing off against each other and the 'Manager' for the album selected the tracks. My nomination was The Kick Inside by Kate Bush and it managed to get through to the final when it fell to Parallel Lines which I think was understandable

I was tempted to vote that he should stay because it seemed potentially like he was trying to get someone else to fix his mess