Surprise surprise! It's time for our regular Saturday morning Blind Date with a bunch of anonymous pop stars. But who are they and what connects their songs? You'll have a lorra lorra fun working it out...
10. They're meek & honest, but very confused.
9. German with a regular beat.
8. Bandit chasers.
7. The headroom is small when you're locked up inside your opium den.
6. Used for lifting a nun's headdress.
5. I saw a mouse!
Where?
4. She'll feed you tea and oranges under a bright star.
3. Used to work in a very cold factory.
2. On sale at the jewellers.
1. Big guitar pedal.
Anyone who had a heart would be able to see and hear the answers tomorrow morning.
Morning! I’m incapable of writing more than a few sentences on my own blog today, but my brain can just about cope with one of today’s ten.
ReplyDelete3 is The Icicle Works
Well, it's their main man, solo.
DeleteOops! Ian McNabb (with Merseybeast being the linked song)
DeleteOr...?
Delete10 The Mekons
ReplyDeleteIt's not the Mekons!!!
Deleteoops
DeleteRol, are you sure?????
DeletePretty sure. Unless Mickey Dolenz was a member.
Delete8 Smokey
ReplyDeleteis 9 Gerry and The Pacemakers?
ReplyDelete2 The Bangles
ReplyDelete8 is Smokie (thus CC is wrong there)
ReplyDelete6 Wimple Winch! Great to see them on these pages!
ReplyDeleteBased on my knowledge of Smokie and The Mekons I might have the answer
ReplyDeleteBased on my knowledge of Wimple Winch and Gerry & the Pacemakers I think I might have too now
DeleteI am going to investigate this band named after nuns ' headgear
DeleteI've a feeling they'll be up your avenue.
Delete4 Suzanne Vega
ReplyDeleteis 1 The Mighty Wah?
ReplyDeleteSo assuming my guesses are correct is the link Midnight?
ReplyDeleteNo. And it''s not the Mekons.
Deleteis 5 Ronnie and the Hiltons?
ReplyDeleteIf only....
DeleteI am baffled as to how George came up with Ronnie & The Hiltons from that clue. Too much exposure to the Portuguese sun perhaps. Is it anything to do with either stairs or clogs?
DeleteWhere does the mouse live?
DeleteThe Windmills? Amsterdam?
DeleteAmsterdam. Scouse band fronted by the prolific Ian Prowse, also of Pele.
DeleteErnie, I thought Ronnie Hilton sang that song. "I saw a mouse, where, there on the stairs ...."
DeleteRonnie Hilton did sing it. So judging by the vagueries of some if my clues (and some of the bands featured), that would have been a perfectly good answer.
DeleteSome of my clues. I shouldn't try to comment on my phone anymore. Old fingers and fading eyesight...
DeleteI unreservedly apologise to George. I thought it was Max Bygraves but that is the other Amsterdam song.
Delete10 looks like Mickey Dolenz on vocals so could it be a reunited Monkees?
ReplyDeleteThink George is right on 1.
I'm assuming the connection is Liverpool and related things (Mersey, Scouse etc)
Based on my knowledge of geography and the Google search engine I think I now know the link
ReplyDeleteAnd the picture of Cilla!
Deletewell done!
DeleteAt 8.51, it looks like a tie between Ernie and CC. We'll done, guys.
ReplyDeleteOr even well done. Stupid autocorrect.
DeleteIt was Ernie who got it.
DeleteI suspect C had the answer as well
DeleteThanks CC, I should've piped up! It was Wimple Winch's very obscure 'Rumble On Mersey Square South' which linked with a certain ferry from Gerry & the Pacemakers, seemed too much of a coincidence!
DeleteI think you won today
DeleteStill 7 to get. Another local lad.
ReplyDeleteJackie Lomax?
DeleteTop work today, C!
DeleteVery lively and entertaining string of answers today. Nice job, everyone. - Brian
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