Bibliogryphon

10/Jan/2024 46 The Beach Boys — God Only Knows 44 The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset 43 The Troggs — Wild Thing 41 Los Bravos — Black Is Black 39 The Rolling Stones — Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown -6 33 Donovan — Sunshine Superman 29 Traffic — Hole In My Shoe 27 The Lovin’ Spoonful — Daydream 26 The Move — Flowers In The Rain 22 The Spencer Davis Group — Gimme Some Loving 22 The Hollies — I Can’t Let Go 22 The Hollies — Stop Stop Stop 17 The Monkees — Alternate Title (Randy Scouse Git) +4 17 Manfred Mann — Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James 15 Cat Stevens — Matthew And Son 07 The Seekers — Morningtown Ride

If we take the 7th as the date of death and extrapolate this pro rata then 50 hits would come around 4pm on 26th April. If we go with the 8th then we are looking at 8am on 13th May

Franz Beckenbaur was a unique for @gcreptile which does not increase the number of ways of winning but does pull them level on hits with @Spade_Cooley but having the unique allows them to steal Phil Collins and Andy Taylor Game (as you might say) on!

9/Jan/2024 42 The Beach Boys — God Only Knows 38 The Troggs — Wild Thing 37 The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset 34 The Rolling Stones — Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown -6 31 Los Bravos — Black Is Black 31 The Spencer Davis Group — Gimme Some Loving 29 Donovan — Sunshine Superman 29 Traffic — Hole In My Shoe 25 The Lovin’ Spoonful — Daydream 25 Manfred Mann — Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James 24 The Move — Flowers In The Rain 24 Cat Stevens — Matthew And Son 22 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich — Bend It 22 The Hollies — I Can’t Let Go 20 The Hollies — Stop Stop Stop 19 The Monkees — Alternate Title (Randy Scouse Git) +4 15 The Mindbenders — A Groovy Kind Of Love 10 The Seekers — Morningtown Ride 09 The Move — Night Of Fear  

Gone for Barenboim

First glance at the full chart which has been updated for Delors and Beckenbauer Earliest fourth hit previously was 17th Feb (2021)

16th January In 2022 and 2019 the third and fourth hits were on consecutive days

Goodyear

08.01.24 35 The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset 34 The Beach Boys — God Only Knows 33 The Troggs — Wild Thing 31 The Monkees — Alternate Title (Randy Scouse Git) +4 30 Donovan — Sunshine Superman 29 The Rolling Stones — Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown -6 28 Los Bravos — Black Is Black 28 Cat Stevens — Matthew And Son 27 Manfred Mann — Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James 27 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich — Bend It 25 The Hollies — Stop Stop Stop 25 Traffic — Hole In My Shoe 25 The Lovin’ Spoonful — Daydream 24 The Spencer Davis Group — Gimme Some Loving 24 The Mindbenders — A Groovy Kind Of Love 22 The Move — Flowers In The Rain 22 The Hollies — I Can’t Let Go 16 The Move — Night Of Fear  13 The Seekers — Morningtown Ride 12 The Mamas And The Papas — Dedicated To The One I Love 10 Keith West — Excerpt From A Teenage Opera 

The Four Kings of EMI sitting stately on the floor

I will submit myself for another humiliation

Gloria Whelan for me

7/Jan/2024 35 The Beach Boys — God Only Knows 34 The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset 33 The Rolling Stones — Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown -2 31 The Troggs — Wild Thing 29 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich — Bend It 27 Los Bravos — Black Is Black 27 The Monkees — Alternate Title (Randy Scouse Git) -2 26 Manfred Mann — Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James 25 Traffic — Hole In My Shoe 25 The Lovin’ Spoonful — Daydream 25 The Spencer Davis Group — Gimme Some Loving 25 Cat Stevens — Matthew And Son 25 Donovan — Sunshine Superman -2 24 The Mindbenders — A Groovy Kind Of Love 23 The Hollies — Stop Stop Stop 22 The Move — Flowers In The Rain 22 The Hollies — I Can’t Let Go 21 The Seekers — Morningtown Ride 20 The Move — Night Of Fear 14 The Mamas And The Papas — Dedicated To The One I Love 14 The Beatles — Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever +2 13 Keith West — Excerpt From A Teenage Opera 12 The Troggs — I Can’t Control Myself -2 08 Crispian St. Peters — You Were On My Mind 

06.01.2023 32 The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset  28 The Rolling Stones — Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown -3 28The Monkees — Alternate Title (Randy Scouse Git) +2 28 Cat Stevens — Matthew And Son 27 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich — Bend It 26 The Beach Boys — God Only Knows 25 The Mamas And The Papas — Dedicated To The One I Love 25 Donovan — Sunshine Superman 25 The Spencer Davis Group — Gimme Some Loving  24 Traffic — Hole In My Shoe 24 The Troggs — Wild Thing 24 Los Bravos — Black Is Black 23 The Mindbenders — A Groovy Kind Of Love 22 The Beatles — Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever +2 22 The Hollies — Stop Stop Stop 22 Manfred Mann— Semi detached Suburban Mr James 22 The Move — Flowers In The Rain 22 The Lovin’ Spoonful — Daydream 21 The Dave Clark Five — Everybody Knows 21 The Seekers — Morningtown Ride 21 The Hollies — I Can’t Let Go  20 The Troggs — I Can’t Control Myself 20 The Move — Night Of Fear 17 Crispian St. Peters — You Were On My Mind 15 Keith West — Excerpt From A Teenage Opera 06 Tom Jones — I’m Coming Home 04 The Who — I’m A Boy -3

1924 William Russell/Eve Marie Saint 1925 Bill Hayes/Ysanne Churchman 1926 Timothy Dudley-Smith/Kitty Hart-Moxon 1927 Sandy Gall/Leontyne Price 1928 Tom Lehrer/Queen Ratna of Nepal 1929 John Woodvine/Vera Miles 1930 Douglas Hurd/Edna O'Brien  1931 Ken Bates/Leslie Caron 1932 Roy Hattersley/Prunella Scales 1933 Tinto Brass/Kim Novak

Yes msc got there first so will hold the out unless someone overtakes them. There are so many possible outs it is fascinating to see who will tip over the edge first

I see I am missing a sub so Julie Goodyear can go in but I also note that my number 11 pick Margaret Stuart Barry was dead when the game began. Obviously she will not score but can I replace her? If the answer is yes then Tom Baker will go to the bottom of my subs list

The negative reacts are really random. If I come on and there have been lots of posts I am not going to negative react every single one of them but if I just happen to see one that frustrates me because I thought progress was being made then you might get it. In addition SC and TQR have made their intentions fairly clear so the chances of influencing them are fairly slim. The negative reactions are more like shorthand comments - essentially I disagree with you without actually saying that in a separate comment. If you voted something I liked you would probably get the positive react. It is just another way of showing engagement with the game. I do think that there is a lot of Beatles negativity which in my opinion is undeserved. However, the way the game works is that we all have equal votes so you express yours and I will express mine and we comment accordingly

It is a terrible thing to admit that almost all my knowledge of the songs that have featured in the Sixties polls come from listening to Jimmy Saville's Double Top Ten show on Radio 1 on Sunday Lunchtime as a kid

I have a vinyl copy of The Legend of Xanadu which I bought when I was a student (late eighties) so it still was something that I thought I wanted to own but that might be the exception in their output. It has become apparent across this game that there are songs that escape their time and enter into the cultural race memory whereas there are those that might have been incredibly successful at the time but a trapped in the amber of cultural moment.

I have magnified the first fifty days to show exactly where we are Earliest third hits are all in February

There has never been a third hit in January

January 16th

@RoverAndOut only has one out as his other four are shared between the other players who need a Brit winner. However another hit in any category would see him steal Shirley Bassey and Zubin Metha from @msc 1. Marc Almond (da) 2. Adam Ant (ms) 3. Thelma Barlow (bp) 4. Shirley Bassey (ms) (ro) 5. Victoria Beckham (da) 6. Melanie Chisholm (da) 7. Vince Clarke (gr) 8. Phil Collins (sc) (gr, ms, af, ro) 9. Beverly Craven (af) 10. Randy Crawford (gr) 11. Anne Cunningham (bp) 12. Kenneth Farrington (bp) 13. Brenda Fricker (da) 14. Geri Halliwell (da) 15. Michelle Heaton (da) 16. Ayatollah Khomenei (th) 17. Sally Kirkland (da) 18. John Leckie (gr) 19. Sophia Loren (th) 20. Philip Lowrie (bp) 21. Shirley MacLaine (th) 22. Jochen Mass (da) 23. Zubin Metha (ms) (af, ro) 24. DJ Minutemix (sc) 25. Micheal Moore (da) 26. Kirk Pengilly (af) 27. Kevin Rowland (th) 28. William Russell (bp) 29. Penny Ryder (da) 30. Prunella Scales (th) 31. Mahbouba Seraj (da) 32. Vern Shuppen (da) 33. Lula da Silva (da) 34. David Sterne (da) 35. Andy Taylor (sc) (gr, af, ro) 36. Pete Waterman (ms) 37. Kayne West (da) 38. John Williams (ro) 39. Terry Williams (sc) 40. Bobby Z (sc)

You are right I have updated the table this also means @RoverAndOut only needs a Brit winner as well