Bibliogryphon

17/9/2024 62 Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife 31 Bill Haley & His Comets — Rock Around The Clock +2 27 Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock +2 12 The Everly Brothers — All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette -3 10 Bobby Darin — Dream Lover -3

Tue 17 Sep 17 The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian -6 17 Tears for Fears - Mad World 12 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill +4

Went down another literary prize rabbit hole this morning John Llewellyn Rhys Prize For Commonwealth writers under 35 1957 Ruskin Boyd (b.1934) 1960 David Caute (b.1936) 1962 Edward Lucie-Smith (b.1933) 1964 Nell Dunn (b.1936) 1965 Julian Mitchell (b.1935) 1966 Margaret Drabble (b.1939) 1969 Melvyn Bragg (b.1939) 1972 Susan Hill (b.1942) 1973 Peter Smalley (b.1943) 1974 Hugh Fleetwood (b.1944)

Nothing personal I just think we are at opposite ends of the musical spectrum

Mon 16 Sep 58 Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife 41 Bill Haley & His Comets — Rock Around The Clock +4 31 Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock 21 Bobby Darin — Dream Lover -6 19 The Everly Brothers — All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette 08 Tennessee Ernie Ford — Sixteen Tons

Mon 16 Sep 34 Tears for Fears - Mad World 27 The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian -6 13 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill +4

15/9/24 52 Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife 41 Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock 41 Bill Haley & His Comets — Rock Around The Clock +4 31 Bobby Darin — Dream Lover -6 23 The Everly Brothers — All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette 18 Tennessee Ernie Ford — Sixteen Tons 

15/9/24 46 Tears for Fears - Mad World  31 The Bangles— Walk Like an Egyptian -6 21 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill +4

Guilty as charged but what amazes me is that Mad World hardly moved until almost everything else had been eliminated. Ultimate compromise candidate

14/9/24 37 Tears for Fears - Mad World 31 The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian -3 27 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill +4 22 The Vapors - Turning Japanese 05 The Damned - Eloise -3

14.09.2024 50 Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife 44 Bill Haley & His Comets — Rock Around The Clock +2 42 Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock +2 41 Bobby Darin — Dream Lover -6 30 The Everly Brothers — All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette 27 Tennessee Ernie Ford — Sixteen Tons

No I you just change you original post Judith will count as your pick for this round

We now have a hit in all five categories and @diego is the first player to need only two hots to win by looking to complete a one in each category. Needs a Spouse and an Ivor Novello winner for victory

I think you would be on dodgy ground. In the early days of the competition I lost a few points by having picks that were assigned the wrong year

13/9/24 37 The Bangles — Walk Like an Egyptian -3 31 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill +4 26 The Vapors - Turning Japanese 22 Tears for Fears - Mad World 18 The Damned - Eloise 12 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time -3

13.09.2024 53 Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife 49 Bobby Darin — Dream Lover -3 46 Bill Haley & His Comets — Rock Around The Clock +2 43 Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock +2 34 The Everly Brothers — All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette 34 Tennessee Ernie Ford — Sixteen Tons 05 Connie Francis — Stupid Cupid / Carolina Moon -3

Forgot I had picked Kenneth Cope

I quite like them all. Time After Time is trying a bit too hard and Eloise is better than the original but not probably the best representative here. This is Kate's only chance at a win having been pipped in the 70s No.1s

Is he dead then?

12/9/2024 53 Bobby Darin — Dream Lover -3 48 Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock +2 43 Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife 39 Bill Haley & His Comets — Rock Around The Clock +2 37 The Everly Brothers — All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette 34 Tennessee Ernie Ford — Sixteen Tons 26 Connie Francis — Stupid Cupid / Carolina Moon -3 14 Paul Anka — Diana

12/9/2024 41 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill +2 40 The Bangles — Walk Like an Egyptian -2 22 Tears for Fears - Mad World 19 The Damned - Eloise -2 19 The Vapors - Turning Japanese +2 16 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time -2 13 Madness - Baggy Trousers

Replaced with Patricia Routledge

Scoreboard - After 40 hits MariNisia - 7 Bibliogryphon - 7 Summer in Transylvania - 6 Azreal - 5 Tracy - 3 Lady Fiona - 3 Diego - 3 Doorslammer - 2 Polar Duck - 2 WEP - 1 Bobytoni - 1

Congrats @diego 1924 Russell M. Nelson/Eva Marie Saint 1925 Pete Murray/Brigitte Auber 1926  Alan Greenspan/Judith Magre 1927 Sandy Gall/Hazel Chinnery 1928 James Ivory/Queen Ratna of Nepal 1929 John Woodvine/Patricia Routledge 1930 Douglas Hurd/Katherine Jackson  1931 Ken Bates/Leslie Caron  1932 Roy Hattersley/Carmen Munroe 1933 Tinto Brass/Kim Novak

Four out of the five categories have hits now with Batman films still waiting The Scoreboard is updated Six players are now on two hits @Commtech Sio Bibble @En Passant @BuffaloPhil @diego @RoverAndOut @An Fear Beag Things are moving quite quickly in this game