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My favourite Blondie song never made it to No.1 - Rapture

In about September my wife got the latest release from her favorite J-Rock band ONE OK Rock - Luxury Disease Since then if she is in the car with me that is the only thing we listen to It is a great album with some standout tracks and much heavier than their last rather poppy Americanised one

Not enough there for a DDP team same is probably true of The Chicken Song video (though I recall we may have had this discussion some time ago)

48 David Bowie – Space Oddity 43 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights+1 38 Donna Summer – I Feel Love 33 Gary Numan – Cars 30 ABBA – The Name of the Game 25 Blondie – Heart of Glass 24 ABBA – Knowing Me , Knowing You +1 23 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody +1 22 Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive 20 Baccara – Yes Sir, I Can Boogie 18 T.Rex – Get It On 16 The Sweet – Blockbuster 13 10cc – I'm Not in Love +1 10 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over Troubled Water 6 Nilsson - Without You -3 6 Alice Cooper – School's Out -3 3 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown

The fact that SQ had two entries I the final group meant the lesser track drew the early fire (and rightly so). There are still some track I like less than Devilgate Drive so I won't be down voting it yet. I imagine it would be a good answer on Pointless

39 David Bowie – Space Oddity 38 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights +1 34 Donna Summer – I Feel Love 32 Gary Numan – Cars -1 28 Blondie – Heart of Glass 27 ABBA – Knowing Me , Knowing You +1 27 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody +1 24 ABBA – The Name of the Game 23 The Sweet – Blockbuster 22 Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive 22 Baccara – Yes Sir, I Can Boogie 18 Nilsson – Without You -2 16 T.Rex – Get It On 16 10cc – I'm Not in Love +1 13 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 12 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over Troubled Water 09 Alice Cooper – School's Out -3 8 Don McLean – Vincent' 4 ABBA – Waterloo

He is probably one of the referees

33 Donna Summer – I Feel Love 33 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights +1 31 Gary Numan – Cars 30 David Bowie – Space Oddity 26 ABBA – Knowing Me, Knowing You 25 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 25 The Sweet – Blockbuster +1 23 10cc – I'm Not in Love +1 22 Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive 22 Baccara – Yes Sir, I Can Boogie 22 Blondie – Heart of Glass 21 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over Troubled Water 20 Don McLean – Vincent 20 ABBA – The Name of the Game 20 T.Rex – Get It On 20 Nilsson – Without You -2 19 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 12 Alice Cooper – School's Out -2 12 Suzi Quatro – Can the Can -2 10 ABBA – Waterloo  2 Althea & Donna – Up Town Top Ranking +1

28 David Bowie – Space Oddity 25 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights +4 22 ABBA – Knowing me, knowing you 21 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 20 ABBA – The name of the game 20 ABBA – Waterloo 20 Baccara – Yes Sir, I can boogie 20 Bay City Rollers – Bye bye baby 20 Blondie – Heart of glass 20 Don McLean – Vincent 20 Donna Summer – I feel love 20 Gary Numan – Cars 20 Nilsson – Without you 20 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 20 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a clown 20 Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive  20 10CC – I´m not in love 20 The Sweet – Blockbuster 20 T.Rex – Get it on 18 Alice Cooper – School´s out -3 17 Suzi Quatro – Can the can -3 16 Althea & Donna – Up Town Top Ranking 15 ABBA – Fernando 14 Blondie – Sunday Girl 12 Slade – Coz I luv you

If we do carry this on into the 80s I have just has a look and whilst I love 80s music. The best stuff didn't get to No.1 No Kate Bush, No Peter Gabriel, No Erasure, No Depeche Mode, No OMD And remember it was The Flying Pickets that took Only You to No 1 not Yazoo

63 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights 57 Althea & Donna – Uptown Top Ranking 53 Blondie – Heart of Glass 52 Gary Numan – Cars 15 Bee Gees – Tragedy 09 Bee Gees - Night Fever -6 08 Blondie – Sunday Girl 07 The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star +4

There is a third way but Gary Numan might not like it

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60 Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights 58 Althea and Donna - Up Town Top Ranking 50 Blondie – Heart of glass 49 Gary Numan – Cars 24 Bee Gees – Tragedy 20 The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star +4 12 Ian Dury & the Blockheads – Hit me with your rhythm stick 12 Blondie – Sunday Girl 11 Bee Gees - Night Fever -6 07 Police – Message in a bottle

I didn't mean to put any pressure on but there may be a delay in the New Year in getting the teams up whilst I verify them All teams submitted by the deadline will get to play the game It normally takes about 18 months or so anyway so a little bit of delay at the beginning shouldn't be too much of a problem

1. George Aligiah 2. Paul Hogan 3. Billy Connolly 4. Eddie Kidd 5. Val Kilmer 6. Courtney Love 7. Daniella Westbrook 8. Frank Miller 9. Matthew Perry 10. Duncan Norvelle 11. Chris Rea 12. Johnnie Irwin 13. Denis Law 14. 6ix9ine 15. Shannon Doherty 16. Julie Goodyear 17. Vladimir Putin 18. Michael Schumacher 19. Stiliyan Petrov 20. Andy Taylor 21. Phil Collins 22. Linda Nolan 23. Roberta Flack 24. Rik Flair 25. Jane Campbell 26. Kerry Katona 27. Tim Curry 28. Richard Franklin 29. Nigel Starmer-Smith 30. Frank Field 31. Pam St Clement 32. Philip Pullman 33. Pele 34. Michael Gambon 35. Tina Turner 36. Ex King Juan Carlos of Spain 37. Sinsa Mihajlovic 38. Jane Fonda 39. Chaim Topol 40. Rolf Harris 41. Tom Baker 42. Shane McGowen 43. Yoko Ono 44. Rob Burrow 45. Tinto Brass 46 Dennis Skinner 47. Nigel Lawson 48. Roy Hattersly 49. Rory Cellan-Jones 50. Deep Roy Subs 1. Julie Walters 2. Jayne Godley 3. Teller

60 Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights 50 Blondie – Heart of glass 47 Althea and Donna - Up Town Top Ranking 45 Gary Numan - Cars 26 ABBA – Take a chance on me 26 Police – Message in a bottle 24 Ian Dury & the Blockheads – Hit me with your rhythm stick 22 Bee Gees - Night Fever -6 17 The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star +4 16 Bee Gees – Tragedy 12 Blondie – Sunday Girl

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In SHDB IV there were 23 entries which meant that if every player has picked a unique in each category there should have been 115 separated picks What we ended up with was Star Trek - 60 Baseball - 53 Pulitzers - 57 Olympians - 70 Cabinet - 41 So far with 10 entries validated the biggest number of picks is 36 and the lowest is 27 but the further we go the more duplicate picks we get

It is the gateway to The Eighties

I have fully verified the nine entries I have received so far I am going to be largely out of action between Christmas and New Year so get those entries in as quick as possible Also if you could let me know if you intend to submit a team it might be helpful.

58 Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights 48 Blondie – Heart of glass 47 Althea and Donna - Up Town Top Ranking 41 Gary Numan - Cars 32 Bee Gees - Night Fever -3 28 The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star ±4 28 Police – Message in a bottle 27 Bee Gees – Tragedy 22 ABBA – Take a chance on me 22 Blondie – Sunday Girl 13 Ian Dury & the Blockheads – Hit me with your rhythm stick 13 Gloria Gaynor – I will survive 08 Tubeway Army – Are “Friends” Electric -3

Just because he dead doesn't mean he can't appear

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I remember having a CD compilation set of synth pop hits which was titled "Are Friends Electric?" but did not feature Are Friends Electric as one of the tracks