Welcome to your weekly opportunity to be famous for fifteen minutes - if you can solve all this week's clues on Saturday Snapshots. Title and artist for each, please!
10. Fiery gal comes of age.
9. Norman painter gets paranoid.
8. A magnum crown... pity.
7. Scooters make me itch.
6. A mini roll gets chewed up by an air freshener.
5. "They told me to do it!" I explained to the junior Feds.
4. Directions to the French court maze, please?
3. Party pooper DJ wouldn't play 50s hits... and his eyeliner stank.
2. Eager nobility wants to hear a song.
1. Allied forces found on a zebra crossing.
If an artist is "somebody who produces things that people don't need to have", then this quiz proves I'm an artist. Answers tomorrow morning.
I don't know how come I've only just discovered Chip Taylor, when it appears he's been writing great tunes for over 50 years and has released over 25 solo albums in that time... but that's why I like the music industry. It never stops giving. There's always somebody new to discover... even if that somebody has been doing their thing for half a century.
(I'm particularly impressed that Chip Taylor released a song and an album in 2012 called Fuck All The Perfect People. That's going on the list of songs for my funeral.)
Anyway, Chip Taylor has a new album out at the moment. He's 79 now and his voice and delivery owe much to latter days Johnny Cash & Leonard Cohen. Here's the title track (with a little help from an old George Jones tune). It's a belter.
It won't mean much to most of you, but Friday's news that Disney & Sony have reached a new deal over the rights to Spider-Man was one of the few pieces of good news I've had lately. Thought I'd celebrate it with the image above.
J. Jonah Jameson is the arch-nemesis of the bloke in the costume at the top of the page. Considering I came up with this clue a couple of weeks ago, I call that synchronicity.
