Bibliogryphon

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

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