Are Friends Electric? - Tubeway Army
Hip To Be Square - Huey Lewis & The News[/QUOTE]
Are Friends Electric was a monster number one hit for Gary Numan's tubeway army in the summer of 1979.
1979 was a top twenty hit for the Smashing Pumpkins.
A hollowed out pumpkin is normally something you see at Halloween.
Halloween is traditionally celebrated on 31st October.
October was the 2nd album released by irish pub-rockers U2.
Bono of U2 often believes that he is jesus...
...whereas John Lennon claimed the Beatles were bigger than Jesus.
The Beatles recorded part of their 1969/70 album Let it Be at Twickenham Studios in London.
Twickenham is more famous for being the home of England's Rugby Union (egg chasing) team...
One of the greatest moments in Twickenham's history came in 1982 when Erica Roe streaked topless in front of viewing millions. A headline of "Erica Roe Streaks" could sum up this event.
Streaks can be found in hair and if you were female and you had five different colourings, somebody commenting would say that she had Five Colour in her Hair - which co-incidentally was a massive hit for McFly.
McFly were named after Marty Mcfly on the Back to the Future trilogy ("Libyans !!")
These films had The Power of Love by Huey Lewis and The News as its main soundtrack tune.
Huey Lewis followed the success of this single by releasing the album Fore! which contained US top 10 hits, Stuck With You and (thank goodness) Hip To Be Square.
Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed
Trio - Da Da Da
Hard-Fi:- Suburban Knights
Beatles:- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
While My Guitar Gently Weeps was written by George Harrison
George Harrison lost a court case for subconsciously plagiarising the Chiffons' "He's So Fine" for his hit single "My Sweet Lord"
The Chiffons used to be known as The Four Pennies
British group The Four Pennies had a lead guitarist called Fritz Fryer
Fryer left the band for about a year in 1965 and David Graham temporarily stood in for him
David Graham comes from Reading, Berks
Contempo played at Reading Uni in 2003 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cFS8-v9RU0)
Their front man Richard Archer went on to form Hard-Fi
Shorter route:
Hard-Fi turned down the chance to rerecord Stars Of CCTV at Abbey Road where "WMGGW" was recorded
Vanilla:- No Way No Way
Avenged Sevenfold:- Darkness Surrounding
Vanilla featured in the name of Vanilla Ice.
His hit Ice Ice Baby was based on Queen/ David Bowie's Under Pressure.
Queen's debut was Seven Seas of Rye.
Another Queen single was Crazy Little Thing Called Love.
The hit I Believe in a Thing Called Love was a hit for the Darkness.
This brings us parts of the group and song title Avenged Sevenfold:- Darkness Surrounding
A new pair Hot Chocolate:- Brother Louie
LaRoux:- Bulletproof
A new pair Hot Chocolate:- Brother Louie
LaRoux:- Bulletproof
Hot Chocolate were a popular 70's/80's funk/soul group headed by slaphead Errol Brown
One of their biggest hits was the immortal You Sexy Thing, a song that was heavily featured in the smash UK film, The Full Monty. The Full Monty told the story of six former steel workers from Sheffield now stripping for a living.
Another famous act that came from Sheffield were The Human League who had a moderate hit with "The Lebanon."
The Flag of Lebanon features a Green Cedar. The Cedar Room was an early hit for the Doves and remains a live favourite. Doves feature twin brothers Andy and Jez Williams.
Another famous group to feature twins were The Proclaimers who in 1987 wrote that famous Letter to America.
One of America's biggest current stars in 2010 is Lady GaGa. Lady GaGa with Beyonce had a huge hit with Telephone.
One drawback with having a Telephone is that you end up with a Bill at the end of the month. The Bill was ITV's flagship cop show for over 25 years until it came off the air earlier this year.
It featured classic characters such as Reg Hollis, Jim Carver, Frank Burnside and of course June Ackland.
June Ackland was played by britsh actress Trudie Goodwin. Trudie Goodwin's real life daughter is Elly Jackson who (co-incidentally) is the lead singer of Electropop group La Roux. La Roux scored a massive hit in both the UK and US with...(drum roll please)......... Bulletproof !
I thank you...:p
Adam & The Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us.
Adam & The Ants recorded Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Their debut single was Young Parisians
One of Paris's premier art-rock bands is called Nelson Halfnelson was a band formed in Pacific Palisades, LA by brothers Ron and Russell Mael
They changed the name to Sparks and went on to record the hit single This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us - simples.
Daphne Clark was a famous character in the Australian Soap opera, Neighbours. The Coffee shop was named after her.
Before opening the coffee shop, she was a Stripper. Stripper Vicar is the title of 1997 single by rockers Mansun. Mansun's biggest hit was Wide Open Space. Space is often referred to by Trekkies as the Final Frontier.
Adam and the Ants recorded the track Kings of the Wild Frontier.
Davy Crockett was the King of the Wild Frontier and shares the same surname as Sonny Crockett of Miami Vice. Crockett's Theme was a top 10 hit in the 80's for Jan Hammer.
The Beatles recorded Maxwell's Silver Hammer in 1968.
David Soul once knew a Silver Lady whereas Blur once knew a Lady called Tracy Jacks. Tracy Jacks must be in some be related to Terry Jacks who recorded Seasons in the Sun.
Spending Seasons in the Sun must be a better place than spending Seasons in the Abyss which is the title of an early 90's album by Slayer.
The first track of this album was War Ensemble.
Sparks:- Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth
Devo:- I Can't Get No Satisfaction
Sparks:- Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth Sparks consisted of brothers Russell and Ron Mael
Two other famous brothers who's name started with 'R' were Ronnie and Reggie Kray.
The Kray twins were portrayed on the big screen by Martin and Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet. Spandau Ballet were billed as New Romantics as was David Bowie for a short time. David Bowie teamed with Queen to record Under Pressure. Queen used german proudcer Mack for 3 of their 80's albums. Mack the Knife was hit for Louis Armstrong in the 50's.
Another knife is a Stanley Knife.
Another famous Stanley is Stanley Kirk Burrell a.k.a MC Hammer.
A hammer can be found in a toolbox as can a pair of Pliers.
Chaka Demus and Pliers scored a massive number one in 1994 with their cover of Twist and Shout.
The most famous cover of this song was recorded in 1963 by The Beatles.
The Beatles were from Liverpool.
One of Liverpool's folklore legends is Kenny Dalglish a.k.a King Kenny. Kenny was also the name of a 70's glam rock group who scored a top 3 hit with The Bump. The Bump shared part of its name with Mr Bump from the Mr Men books, which also include Mr Tickle, Mr Topsy-Turvy and Mr Happy.
The Happy Mondays recorded their version of Step On in 1990 with that immortal Shaun Ryder line "You're Twisting My Melon Man" Melon is an anagram of Lemon.
You can buy Bitter Lemon from the off-license.
You can also by Bitter there also. Stones Bitter is a particular favourite.
speaking of Stones, the most famous Stones are The Rolling Stones who recorded I Can't Get No Satisfaction in 1964. Devo re-worked this track in the 70's to a brand new audience. Devo:- I Can't Get No Satisfaction
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Take That - The Flood
Sex Pistols - Holidays In The Sun
Animals :- House of the Rising Sun
HearSay :- Pure & Simple
Animal was the legendary drummer in The Muppet Show, The Muppets were also seen on Sesame Street. Coronation Street features Kym Marsh, who shot to fame as one fifth of the truly awful HearSay.
Poison Arrow was produced by Trevor Horn
Horn also worked at length with the Pet Shop Boys.
The Beach Boys released an album called Pet Sounds.
Side B, track one is entitled God Only Knows.
Roundabout - Yes
Spirit In The Sky - Gareth Gates & The Kumars
In 1974 Lynyrd Skynyrd released their perennial hit Sweet Home Alabama.
Alabama is the sweet home of visually impaired gospel quintet The Blind Boys Of Alabama.
The Boys sang backing vocals on Run On, a track on Moby's ten million-selling album Play.
Moby Dick is the title of an instrumental by legendary rock band Led Zeppelin.
Zep teamed up for a version of their greatest hit Stairway To Heaven with fellow legends Pink Floyd.
When the Floyd performed Dark Side Of The Moon live in 2006-2007 one of the backing singers was Katie Kissoon.
Thirty-six years previously Katie and her brother Mac scraped into the US top twenty with a cover of Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep, a bubblegum hit by Scottish group Middle Of The Road (whose own record was another ten million seller).
M.O.R. (an abbreviation for "middle of the road") is a song on Blur's self-titled fifth album.
The tune uses exactly the same chord sequence as David Bowie's Fantastic Voyage and Boys Keep Swinging.
Telly Savalas - If
Birthday Party - Mutiny In Heaven
If was also the title of a Bluetones hit
Blue is a colour and so is pink
The Psychedelic Furs had hits with Pretty in Pink and Heaven
The word Heaven also appears in Birthday Party's song Mutiny in Heaven
Traffic:- Hole in My Shoe
Bellefire:- Perfect Bliss
Roses was the name of the hit from Heywoode.
Leon Hayward had a hit with Don't Push It Don't Force It. Don't Stop Me Now was a hit for Queen.
Another Queen hit was Innuendo.
Small Faces:- Lazy Sunday
Badly Drawn Boy:- You Were Right
Lazy Sunday reached number two in 1968
It inspired the eponymous track off the bestselling Blur album Parklife
In the title song on The Smiths' LP The Queen Is Dead Morrissey muses on breaking into the royal bedroom
Another song in which the singer daydreams of being married to Her Maj is Badly Drawn Boy's You Were Right
Within You Without You - Beatles Fight For This Love - Girls Aloud
Within You Without You was a song written by Beatles guitarist George Harrison.
The bass player of The Beatles was Sir Paul McCartney. Sir Paul McCartney appeared on The X Factor in 2009, a show on which there have, in the past been. Beatles themed weeks. Cheryl Cole was a former judge on the show.
She had a number one single with Fight For This Love.
Hope I did that right :S
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
To The Sky - Owl City
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Are Friends Electric? - Tubeway Army
Hip To Be Square - Huey Lewis & The News[/QUOTE]
Are Friends Electric was a monster number one hit for Gary Numan's tubeway army in the summer of 1979.
1979 was a top twenty hit for the Smashing Pumpkins.
A hollowed out pumpkin is normally something you see at Halloween.
Halloween is traditionally celebrated on 31st October.
October was the 2nd album released by irish pub-rockers U2.
Bono of U2 often believes that he is jesus...
...whereas John Lennon claimed the Beatles were bigger than Jesus.
The Beatles recorded part of their 1969/70 album Let it Be at Twickenham Studios in London.
Twickenham is more famous for being the home of England's Rugby Union (egg chasing) team...
One of the greatest moments in Twickenham's history came in 1982 when Erica Roe streaked topless in front of viewing millions. A headline of "Erica Roe Streaks" could sum up this event.
Streaks can be found in hair and if you were female and you had five different colourings, somebody commenting would say that she had Five Colour in her Hair - which co-incidentally
McFly were named after Marty Mcfly on the Back to the Future trilogy ("Libyans !!")
These films had The Power of Love by Huey Lewis and The News as its main soundtrack tune.
Huey Lewis followed the success of this single by releasing the album Fore! which contained US top 10 hits, Stuck With You and (thank goodness) Hip To Be Square.
Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed
Trio - Da Da Da
Hard-Fi:- Suburban Knights
Beatles:- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
George Harrison lost a court case for subconsciously plagiarising the Chiffons' "He's So Fine" for his hit single "My Sweet Lord"
The Chiffons used to be known as The Four Pennies
British group The Four Pennies had a lead guitarist called Fritz Fryer
Fryer left the band for about a year in 1965 and David Graham temporarily stood in for him
David Graham comes from Reading, Berks
Contempo played at Reading Uni in 2003 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cFS8-v9RU0)
Their front man Richard Archer went on to form Hard-Fi
Shorter route:
Hard-Fi turned down the chance to rerecord Stars Of CCTV at Abbey Road where "WMGGW" was recorded
Vanilla:- No Way No Way
Avenged Sevenfold:- Darkness Surrounding
His hit Ice Ice Baby was based on Queen/ David Bowie's Under Pressure.
Queen's debut was Seven Seas of Rye.
Another Queen single was Crazy Little Thing Called Love.
The hit I Believe in a Thing Called Love was a hit for the Darkness.
This brings us parts of the group and song title Avenged Sevenfold:- Darkness Surrounding
A new pair
Hot Chocolate:- Brother Louie
LaRoux:- Bulletproof
Hot Chocolate were a popular 70's/80's funk/soul group headed by slaphead Errol Brown
One of their biggest hits was the immortal You Sexy Thing, a song that was heavily featured in the smash UK film, The Full Monty.
The Full Monty told the story of six former steel workers from Sheffield now stripping for a living.
Another famous act that came from Sheffield were The Human League who had a moderate hit with "The Lebanon."
The Flag of Lebanon features a Green Cedar.
The Cedar Room was an early hit for the Doves and remains a live favourite.
Doves feature twin brothers Andy and Jez Williams.
Another famous group to feature twins were The Proclaimers who in 1987 wrote that famous Letter to America.
One of America's biggest current stars in 2010 is Lady GaGa.
Lady GaGa with Beyonce had a huge hit with Telephone.
One drawback with having a Telephone is that you end up with a Bill at the end of the month.
The Bill was ITV's flagship cop show for over 25 years until it came off the air earlier this year.
It featured classic characters such as Reg Hollis, Jim Carver, Frank Burnside and of course June Ackland.
June Ackland was played by britsh actress Trudie Goodwin.
Trudie Goodwin's real life daughter is Elly Jackson who (co-incidentally)
La Roux scored a massive hit in both the UK and US with...(drum roll please)......... Bulletproof !
I thank you...:p
Adam & The Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us.
Their debut single was Young Parisians
One of Paris's premier art-rock bands is called Nelson
Halfnelson was a band formed in Pacific Palisades, LA by brothers Ron and Russell Mael
They changed the name to Sparks and went on to record the hit single This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us - simples.
Daphne & Celeste - Ooh! Stick You!
Slayer - War Ensemble
Daphne Clark was a famous character in the Australian Soap opera, Neighbours. The Coffee shop was named after her.
Before opening the coffee shop, she was a Stripper.
Stripper Vicar is the title of 1997 single by rockers Mansun.
Mansun's biggest hit was Wide Open Space.
Space is often referred to by Trekkies as the Final Frontier.
Adam and the Ants recorded the track Kings of the Wild Frontier.
Davy Crockett was the King of the Wild Frontier and shares the same surname as Sonny Crockett of Miami Vice.
Crockett's Theme was a top 10 hit in the 80's for Jan Hammer.
The Beatles recorded Maxwell's Silver Hammer in 1968.
David Soul once knew a Silver Lady whereas Blur once knew a Lady called Tracy Jacks.
Tracy Jacks must be in some be related to Terry Jacks who recorded Seasons in the Sun.
Spending Seasons in the Sun must be a better place than spending Seasons in the Abyss which is the title of an early 90's album by Slayer.
The first track of this album was War Ensemble.
:yawn:
Sade - Your Love Is King
Black Lace - Agadoo
Sade also released a record which asked the musical question Is It A Crime?
Black Lace had a hit with the record Agadoo, which actually WAS a crime.
UK Mikey - No track titles left.....
to keep this going..
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome
The third subsequent single by Frankie Goes to Hollywood was Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
Sparks:- Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth
Devo:- I Can't Get No Satisfaction
Devo:- I Can't Get No Satisfaction
Sparks:- Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth
Sparks consisted of brothers Russell and Ron Mael
Two other famous brothers who's name started with 'R' were Ronnie and Reggie Kray.
The Kray twins were portrayed on the big screen by Martin and Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet.
Spandau Ballet were billed as New Romantics as was David Bowie for a short time.
David Bowie teamed with Queen to record Under Pressure.
Queen used german proudcer Mack for 3 of their 80's albums.
Mack the Knife was hit for Louis Armstrong in the 50's.
Another knife is a Stanley Knife.
Another famous Stanley is Stanley Kirk Burrell a.k.a MC Hammer.
A hammer can be found in a toolbox as can a pair of Pliers.
Chaka Demus and Pliers scored a massive number one in 1994 with their cover of Twist and Shout.
The most famous cover of this song was recorded in 1963 by The Beatles.
The Beatles were from Liverpool.
One of Liverpool's folklore legends is Kenny Dalglish a.k.a King Kenny.
Kenny was also the name of a 70's glam rock group who scored a top 3 hit with The Bump.
The Bump shared part of its name with Mr Bump from the Mr Men books, which also include Mr Tickle, Mr Topsy-Turvy and Mr Happy.
The Happy Mondays recorded their version of Step On in 1990 with that immortal Shaun Ryder line "You're Twisting My Melon Man"
Melon is an anagram of Lemon.
You can buy Bitter Lemon from the off-license.
You can also by Bitter there also.
Stones Bitter is a particular favourite.
speaking of Stones, the most famous Stones are The Rolling Stones who recorded I Can't Get No Satisfaction in 1964.
Devo re-worked this track in the 70's to a brand new audience.
Devo:- I Can't Get No Satisfaction
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Take That - The Flood
Sex Pistols - Holidays In The Sun
Ooh... toughie...
Erm, the video for Take That's The Flood features the boys dressed as participants in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.
Aside from boats, other things that can be raced include motor vehicles (I hope you can see where I'm going with this...).
A major manufacturer of racing cars is the McLaren Group.
Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's ran a shop on the King's Road, Chelsea called Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die.
In 1974 a group of working class teenagers who hung around the store stole some instruments and formed a band called The Swankers.
They convinced McLaren to manage them and he promptly sacked the guitarist and changed their name to the Sex Pistols.
The rest is history...
U2 - I Dont Wanna Miss A Thing
right, lets keep this one short as I've got a Quality Street tin with my name on it...
Rihanna sung about an umbrella which could also be used
as a parasol to stop you from Staring at the Sun.
U2 had a Top 5 UK in the late 90's with Staring at the Sun as did Aerosmith with I Dont Wanna Miss A Thing
I thank you....
Duran Duran - Girls on Film
Perry Como - Magic Moments
Girls was a 1975 hit by Moments & Whatnauts
Animals :- House of the Rising Sun
HearSay :- Pure & Simple
Animal was the legendary drummer in The Muppet Show, The Muppets were also seen on Sesame Street. Coronation Street features Kym Marsh, who shot to fame as one fifth of the truly awful HearSay.
ABC - Poison Arrow
Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Horn also worked at length with the Pet Shop Boys.
The Beach Boys released an album called Pet Sounds.
Side B, track one is entitled God Only Knows.
Roundabout - Yes
Spirit In The Sky - Gareth Gates & The Kumars
In 1983 Amy Winehouse was born.
Wine is a type of spirit.
Hence Spirit in the Sky.
Lynyrd Skynyrd:- Sweet Home Alabama
David Bowie:- Boys Keep Swinging
- In 1974 Lynyrd Skynyrd released their perennial hit Sweet Home Alabama.
- Alabama is the sweet home of visually impaired gospel quintet The Blind Boys Of Alabama.
- The Boys sang backing vocals on Run On, a track on Moby's ten million-selling album Play.
- Moby Dick is the title of an instrumental by legendary rock band Led Zeppelin.
- Zep teamed up for a version of their greatest hit Stairway To Heaven with fellow legends Pink Floyd.
- When the Floyd performed Dark Side Of The Moon live in 2006-2007 one of the backing singers was Katie Kissoon.
- Thirty-six years previously Katie and her brother Mac scraped into the US top twenty with a cover of Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep, a bubblegum hit by Scottish group Middle Of The Road (whose own record was another ten million seller).
- M.O.R. (an abbreviation for "middle of the road") is a song on Blur's self-titled fifth album.
- The tune uses exactly the same chord sequence as David Bowie's Fantastic Voyage and Boys Keep Swinging.
Telly Savalas - IfBirthday Party - Mutiny In Heaven
Blue is a colour and so is pink
The Psychedelic Furs had hits with Pretty in Pink and Heaven
The word Heaven also appears in Birthday Party's song Mutiny in Heaven
Traffic:- Hole in My Shoe
Bellefire:- Perfect Bliss
Bellefire:- Perfect Bliss
Hole in my Shoe was covered in 1984 by Neil of The Young Ones fame.
The Young Ones was a 1962 UK number one hit for Cliff Richard, another 1962 UK number one hit was Telstar by The Tornadoes.
The Tornadoes rhythm guitarist was George Bellamy, father of Muse frontman Matt Bellamy.
Muse had a big hit with Bliss in 2001, Bliss to most of us can easily be described as something perfect.:o
Perfect Bliss - Bellefire.
The Stone Roses - Waterfall
Queen - Innuendo
Leon Hayward had a hit with Don't Push It Don't Force It.
Don't Stop Me Now was a hit for Queen.
Another Queen hit was Innuendo.
Small Faces:- Lazy Sunday
Badly Drawn Boy:- You Were Right
It inspired the eponymous track off the bestselling Blur album Parklife
In the title song on The Smiths' LP The Queen Is Dead Morrissey muses on breaking into the royal bedroom
Another song in which the singer daydreams of being married to Her Maj is Badly Drawn Boy's You Were Right
Within You Without You - Beatles
Fight For This Love - Girls Aloud
Well, this is easy
Within You Without You was a song written by Beatles guitarist George Harrison.
The bass player of The Beatles was Sir Paul McCartney.
Sir Paul McCartney appeared on The X Factor in 2009, a show on which there have, in the past been. Beatles themed weeks.
Cheryl Cole was a former judge on the show.
She had a number one single with Fight For This Love.
Hope I did that right :S
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
To The Sky - Owl City