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robogone · Post by **robogone** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 5:42 pm

Blank_Frank wrote:
robojam wrote:
Blank_Frank wrote:
robojam wrote:"where you if won war" - 1974, non-US, non-UK band
...who had a Number One in both the UK and US in the same year? Or have I misread this..?
They all did except this one, so I have to correct myself:

Number 1 in UK and number 6 in US.
Hmmm...Abba's Waterloo gets somewhere close...are you sure you didn't mishear the lyrics?

Yes I did...

Let's say we all know the last one is Waterloo and guess the rest.

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:02 pm

robojam wrote:Yes I did...

Let's say we all know the last one is Waterloo and guess the rest.

That's a couple of hours of my life I want back...I even went to the trouble of checking out the lyrics of 'Kung-Fu Fighting' to see if it had some hidden political depths. Needless to say, it didn't.

The rest are:

The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
Harry Nilsson - Without You

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:13 pm

Yeah, sorry about that - I listened to them to get the lyrics when I probably should have gone to a lyric site...

All correct though.

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 8:33 pm

Michael, Brian, Farrokh, Harry and Anna Mae all share a certain thing. What is it? And who are they?

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 9:14 pm

They changed their names? I think I know who Farrokh and Anna Mae are, and I can think of a Harry.

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 9:19 pm

No. Two of them still have the same name. And two of the other ones are dead.

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 9:44 pm

One of them died the same year that Elvis did. Another one was born in Belgium; he's still alive.

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:58 pm

One of them's been knighted.

(That's it for now.)

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:14 pm

Is it awards? Haven't got all of them yet, but noticed on thing the ones I have so far have in common.

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:20 pm

No it's not awards. They've all done something with someone else, the someone else being the same person in all cases.

To summarise:

Michael, Brian, Farrokh, Harry and Anna Mae

Two of the above use their real names, the others have 'stage' names.
Two of the above are dead; one of these died in 1977.
One of the above who isn't dead was born in Belgium.
One of the above is a knight.

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:35 pm

And a couple of extra clues:

One of them performed on (arguably) one of the world's best-selling singles of all time.

One of them has a surname that, with a letter added, is the name of another band, who took their name from a fictional milk drink.

Or has that just confused things further?

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:37 pm

All worked with David Bowie?

Michael - Mick Jagger
Brian - Brian Eno
Farrokh - Freddie Mercury
Harry - Bing Crosby
Anna Mae - Tina Turner

Actually I don't know if he worked with Tina Turner, but the others I know.

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:40 pm

robojam wrote:All worked with David Bowie?

Michael - Mick Jagger
Brian - Brian Eno
Farrokh - Freddie Mercury
Harry - Bing Crosby
Anna Mae - Tina Turner

Actually I don't know if he worked with Tina Turner, but the others I know.

So close...four out of five...and a slightly more specific reason.

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:43 pm

Well the only one that came to mind dying the same year as Elvis was Bing Crosby, and as far as I know he only performed with him doing a cover. Can't imagine I've got the last 3 wrong, but I could be wrong about the first two. I'm guessing it's the born in Belgium thing that I've got wrong.

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:51 pm

Ah, I'll give it to you, because it wasn't one of my best questions!

The missing one was Brian Molko of Placebo (born in Belgium, has a surname that's nearly Moloko).

They've all duetted with David Bowie:

Dancing In The Streets (Mick Jagger)
20th Century Boy and Without You I'm Nothing (Brian Molko & Placebo)
Under Pressure (Freddie Mercury & Queen)
Little Drummer Boy (Bing Crosby)
Tonight (Tina Turner)

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