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Hello and welcome to The Price of Music, brought to you by
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Music Ally. It is our final show of 2025.
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So it's a slightly different kettle of fish this week as we
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conclude proceedings for the year with our Price of Music
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2025 pop quiz, which I don't know about you, Stuart.
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I mean, I've said this before, but I'm very nervous of this.
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As someone whose memory recall has more holes in it than you
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know, than a sieve. This, this, this could be a bit
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career bruising, I think. What what do you reckon?
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Hopes high hopes high in the in the Dredge household for taking
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home the trophy. There isn't a trophy, but if
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there was. If it was to I'd note you know
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to your comments last time. I watched Mastermind last night
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where someone came on with their specialist subjects and
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completely spooned it. Really.
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You could tell they were having an internal nightmare as it went
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on did. We talk about that in the lock
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in, just in case you don't know, I was, I was saying that, and
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this is by no means trying to big myself up in any way, but
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twice I've been approached by the researchers on Celebrity
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Mastermind inquiring as to whether I would like to take
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part in Celebrity Mastermind. And on both occasions I said no,
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thank you very much, but purely for that, for the fear of
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sitting there and going blank. Did you ever see Tom Ravenscroft
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when he did Celebrity Mastermind?
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How did it go? Oh, and he, it was, you know,
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he's picked a specialist. His specialist subject was
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something to do with music and it was a label, I think maybe a
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certain record label. And you could see the pain.
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And he's either asking you in questions and he was just just
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blanking, blanking. I just can't.
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And within seconds I'm sure of the buzzer going to beep at the
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end. He'd been going, oh, well,
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that's obviously that and that's that.
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But that's what, that's why I've never done it.
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And that's why I am quite scared of this.
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Anyway, nevertheless, we would like to to thank all our super
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fans who have contributed questions for this quiz.
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So there's some questions set by them and some which have been
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compiled by our producer who is also taking on the role of
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quizmaster for this episode. So ladies and gentlemen, will
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you welcome the man behind the scenes, the man who gets us
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online every week, the Ken Bruce of Music Industry Podcast.
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It's Captain Joe Sparrow. Thank you very much.
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Good to be here. Everyone applauds.
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That is the, I mean that's my now new benchmark for being
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introduced. Thank you, Steve.
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Appreciate that by the way, is that worth a point?
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Well, put it this way, when I'm feeling generous later when the
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questions get particularly tricky, I'll keep that in.
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Mind Well, I'm nervous today because you both have great
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radio voices. Both of you like 2 of my the two
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best radio voices I know. And I'm going to be sitting here
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as the guy who writes for a living who's trying to talk.
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So that's why I'm really worried about I'm going to be the loser
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on that front. That's a very good point.
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So you can take a point off Stuart for for not having a
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radio voice. The Dirty tricks are starting
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early, aren't they? Yeah, I see.
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There's no, there's no points for voices here, Stuart.
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It's all, it's all we call on knowledge you'll be pleased to
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know. And in keeping with the topics
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discussed this year, I'm happy to say that I've used AI to
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generate a 1990s TV game show style theme for this quiz, which
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I'll play now. Hang on, here we go.
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That that actually is very good. That is pretty much spot on,
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isn't it? Thought I'd go the extra mile if
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it's seeing as we've been talking about it all year.
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And yeah, so we've got 7 short themed rounds of questions and
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in some rounds you'll need to write down your questions, but
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your answers to the questions. But I will give you answers
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after each question and I'll tot up the scores as we go along.
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Some multiple choice questions, some questions are provided by
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listeners, others are from me based on stuff you've discussed
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on the podcast this year, and one question is from a indie
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special guest. And then at the end we'll reveal
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the scores and crown one of you. Quiz Champion 2025 round one if
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you're ready, is your knowledge on things that are featured on
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The Price of Music this year. Question one is the price of
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Music is the music industry's number one Peppa Pig and Baby
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Shark music news service as you know, but which one has been
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mentioned in the most episodes of the Price of Music this year?
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This is excluding the lock insurance it's public episodes.
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Is it a Peppa Pig, is it B baby shark or is it C?
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They were both mentioned the same amount of times.
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OK. OK.
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OK. OK, the answer is see three
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episodes each. I was sure that was baby shark.
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I was sure that's baby shark. That's zero for both of you on
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that one. And question #2 what was the
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name of the world's only old female Slade tribute band
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mentioned by Steve back in October?
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OK. OK.
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OK, the answer, of course, is slady.
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Slady. Yeah, that's ladies.
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Ladies, dude, no, I'm being difficult half for that.
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Nope, Steve. Very.
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Harsh. Yeah, I had this lady.
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Lady OK, one for Steve Question 3 Lily Allen has had a really
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great 2025, but this time last year she was featured on The
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Price of Music for a story where she was making good money
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selling photos of her feet on Only Fans.
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OK, but what was the star rating out of five for her feet on foot
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enthusiast platform wiki feet? Was it 4 stars out of five, 4.5
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stars out of five, or five stars out of five?
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I mean, this, this is what you guess, right?
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So I'm, I, I, I'm going to guess 4 1/2 four.
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And a half. I'm guessing 5.
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Stu's getting guessing 5. The correct answer is five, in
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fact. So a point for Stu.
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Wow. I wouldn't expect either of you
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to be a regular users of wiki feet, so you probably.
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I'm wondering if any of us have run it?
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Well, only one way to finance you.
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We'll resource that later. OK, question number 4 then.
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The podcast reported on an exploding toilet cancelling a
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gig recently. But which venue was that?
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Oh, right. Yeah, yeah.
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Do you do you want to go first, Stuart?
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Go on, Steve King tuts. Whoa, hat.
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Yeah, King tuts. I'll give you one point.
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Congratulations and follow up question.
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What was the name of the band whose show was cancelled?
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It was a band, wasn't it? And then there was there was the
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female artists who'd come all the way from somewhere like New
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Zealand to support, and I can't remember the name of either of
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them. I'm looking for.
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Oh, he's very strict, isn't he? Yeah, we.
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Can't even come up with any Pooh pans or anything, can we?
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Like I'm going to have to pass. Yeah, OK, It was fickle friends.
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Fickle friends. Sorry, fickle friends.
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OK, and then a bonus question, which ties together both King
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Tut's and another major event of the year.
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There's three points available in this one.
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This year saw the glorious return of Oasis playing live,
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who of course discovered at the venue.
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But which 1990s Oasis songs sounded similar enough to songs
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by other artists that Oasis had to pay settlements or offer
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songwriting credits? One point for each of these
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three songs. Oh.
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What's the oh, that's really, I should really know this.
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What's the one that has the Gary Glitter sample?
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Oh yes, that's one. Can't remember the title of it.
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I mean, you know, if we were being waggish about this, you'd
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probably say most of the first two albums.
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But I mean actual, actual laws, and they were actual lawsuits,
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were not lawsuits, but but a copyright infringement was
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upheld, was it? Correct.
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So these are the ones I'm going to, I'm going to help you out
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here and say it is not the Gary Glitter one because that was a
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an agreed use in advance. So it's 3 songs that later went
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either for settlements or songwriting credits.
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Are they famous songs? They are.
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Well, yes, two of them I would say are famous.
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Did. I mean, and the and the titles
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are No, we didn't for that. Almost.
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Almost it's. Because we wanted to discuss
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this really rather but so I'm going to I'll go with one is
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cigarettes and alcohol the beginning bit That's a.
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I'm afraid not, no. Which is interesting, isn't it?
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That's the that's. What's the one that begins like
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a Sex Pistols song? You know, I mean about half a
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dozen of them. Yeah, I like the way you're
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bobbing your head around as if that's going to down.
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You're going to kick yourselves when I tell you.
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Whatever. Don't look back in anger.
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OK, Stu, got a point there. What?
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There was one. I'll tell you all three
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whatever. Which was settled with Neil
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Innes, who was awarded a Co writing credit.
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Yeah, it was found person. Parts of it are closely
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resembled his song How Free to Be an Idiot Shaker Maker.
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The band, of course famously settled with the rights holders
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of I'd Like to Teach You All to Sing, and according to it, I
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think this is Wikipedia reportedly paying around half
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$1,000,000. And then finally from the second
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album Step Out, which was removed from the main album just
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ahead of release after Stevie Wonder and Co writers challenged
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its similarity to his song Uptight Brackets.
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Everything's All Right. And then they later received a
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writing credit when it was released as a peace.
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So there you go. One point to Stu.
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And then after that first round, then I should probably play the
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game show team again. Yeah, please do.
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OK, so yeah, after the first round, Stu has three points and
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Steve has two points. OK, alright, this is where you
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say it's plenty of time or still everything to play for every
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time. Lots of points available, lots
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of points you. See.
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You're you're still playing for the checkbook and pen now round
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#2 are these are listeners questions.
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And so we put the we put a call out to the patron super fans.
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They could have chosen to submit questions in one of three
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categories, which were tricky music trivia name that year or
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the answer is your favorite artist and they all pick tricky
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music trivia. So these are their favorite.
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This is the four super fans here their favorite music trivia
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question. OK, so again, write down your
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these are, write down your answers and I'll announce the
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correct ones after each question.
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This is from Kate Collins. Kate says.
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How many UK #1 singles has Billy Bragg had?
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OK. OK, Stu.
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OK, Steve, we'll go first with you. 1.
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And Stu. 1. One the correct answer is one it
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was the charity AA side she's leaving home with Wet, Wet Wet.
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That's right in 19. 88 Thank you, Kate.
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Got that one. OK, one each.
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OK. Second question from Richard
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Bose, which indie band were the first choice?
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But also turned down the song Believe which then became A7
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week number one hit to share. I was.
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I was. What an actual an actual indie
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band, really. Yes, I would say it's stretching
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the stretching the term a little bit.
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I'll give you a clue there, but I would probably drop them in
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that bracket. So what sort of era is so I
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think? That was sort of 1999.
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Was that Stu trusting you? I saw it on the top of the
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Pope's, you know, rehash show the other week and they were
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talking about it getting turned down.
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God damn it. Yeah.
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Do you know what I haven't? I, I, I have no idea.
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But this is good because whatever the answer is, I'm
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going to be using this in in my own show.
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Hang on, Stu's digging deep, folks.
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No, I know it. I know it.
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OK, Yeah. What is it?
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It's an Etienne, isn't it? It is indeed St.
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Etienne. Congratulations and the only.
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Reason I know that is because we were talking and I couldn't
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imagine Sarah Kraknell singing it.
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It's because I just can only hear Cher singing it.
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There you go. It would, yeah.
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That's that's my evening's in watching top of the pups.
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Reruns kindly your your weekend rewards.
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So thank you, Richard. Good.
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OK, question #3 this is from Ian Beresford.
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Now Ian says, what is the connection between Lost in Music
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by Sister Sledge, Victoria by The Kinks, and There's a Ghost
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in My House by R Dean Taylor. Oh.
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Nice one. I've got no idea in this.
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This thank you very much. This place to our strengths.
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They've all been covered by the fall.
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Correct. Straight in there.
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Very, very good. Yeah.
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Exactly. All been covered by the fall.
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And then a final question from the Patron Super fans is from
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Gerard G OK, now there's a there's two parts of this.
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The first question is which British synth pop musician and
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songwriter had four UK top four hit singles with four different
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acts in the 1980s? You can get a point for the
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musician and a bonus point if you can name all of the singers
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in the four other acts. This one.
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Is tough, I'll be honest. Right.
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But the clue is British synth pop musician and some.
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Yeah. And it's it's a what's the
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period again? 1980s.
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OK. Well, listeners at home, there's
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some very furrowed brows going on here.
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There's a lot of thinking happening.
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I mean, it's the ISIS that's that's.
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OK. Are we ready?
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If you can remember the 80s, you weren't ashamed enough.
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Yeah, right. Stu, do you want to go first
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with your answer? I get a Mark Holmond.
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I'm afraid not, Steve. Vince Clark.
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It is Vince Clark. So Alison Moyer, correct?
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What was this? What was his name?
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Andy? Andy Bell?
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Was it Andy? Bell from Eurasia, yes.
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And that's, I think on that's my done who I'm never going to get
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two more, I don't think. Was he in early Depeche Mode?
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No, he was. Correct the Depeche.
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Mode was the oh, I didn't think of that.
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Right. OK, I'm I'm merely thinking of
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what he did post Depeche Mode, but yeah, OK, so so Dave gone.
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Dave gone. I don't know Jimmy Somerville.
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Very close. It was the assembly with Fogle
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Sharky. Oh, there you go.
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There you go. Very close to the bonus point
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there, Steve, but I'm, I'm going to be very strict and say very
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strict and say that this round was a, oh, hang on pop music,
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hang on there. We go.
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So at the end of this round, it's a reversal of the first
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round. That was 2 points to Stew, three
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points to Steve, and the running total therefore is 5 all.
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Bless you super fans. Thank you.
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That's all to. Play for Yes.
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Thank you for those. There are some more super fan
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questions coming up later. You'll be thrilled to know round
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#3 is where we start blending together music industry and pop
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trivia knowledge. OK, so this is band names and
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music biz big cheeses. OK, three points to play for
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here. Now the UK music business has a
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bunch of industry organizations that have ex artists at the helm
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and this is a round that is about those artists and their
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artists names. So these are multiple choice
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questions. You can say your answers
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immediately afterwards. Question #1 Sam Duckworth works
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for the UK music venue Trust, but is better known, or was
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better known at one time as the artist Get Cape where Cape fly.
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But where did the name, and I'm going to use the word allegedly
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here, come from? OK 3 three options.
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Is it A from a video game magazine?
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Is it B from a short story that Duckworth wrote in GCSE English
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about 1980s strongman Jeff Capes?
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Or is it C from an advert in a local shop that sold waterproof
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clothing for fly fishermen? I mean, two of those, two of
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those are so preposterous, they're, they're probably right.
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Yeah. I should know this as well,
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Seth. I'm really sorry, Sam.
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I was, I was really excited there thinking, I know it.
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He's get careful. Yeah, I knew his artist name,
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but that wasn't the. Question.
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No, that's not the answer you need.
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I think it's the first one which is the sensible 1.
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The video game. So you're both going for the
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video game? Magazine.
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Yes, sadly you are correct. According to him, his original
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staging came from Retro Gamer magazine about a walk through a
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video game that was the enemy in 2006.
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Digging deep here. OK second question.
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Tom Gray is now a big cheese in the industry organizations.
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The Ivars Academy PRS for music and UK music, but he was also in
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the band Gomez. However, where did the band
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named Gomez come from? Was it a named after Gomez Adams
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from the Adams family TV show? Was it BA friend of the band
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whose name was Gomez? Or was it C the late 90s Chilean
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international footballer Jorg Gomez?
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I've got the Adams family theme in my head, so that's that's how
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I'm going to think. Can I go with the footballer
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because I'd love that to be true.
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So C. Steve's going for C, Stu A going
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for A Gomez, Adams, the Adams family.
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The correct answer is the mundane one.
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I'm afraid it's B the friend of the band.
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This is according to Wikipedia. The band played its first gig in
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1996 in Leeds at the Hyde Park Social Club.
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At the time, they didn't have a formal name, and the band left a
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sign outside which read Gomez in Here for a friend of theirs
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whose surname was Gomez. People saw the sign and assumed
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it was the band's name and it stuck.
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That's the mundane. OK, That's the father.
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Lovely. Yeah, that's his.
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Did I ever tell you how the bands there was the UK punk band
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Snuff, How they got their name will have proportively how they
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got their name. They all went to the pub early
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one evening because this, they've been trying to pick a
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name for weeks and weeks and weeks.
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And they said we'll, we'll sit in the pub until we actually get
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a name. And and so they carried on
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drinking, swapping suggestions of names, none of which they
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could agree on, until one of them just collapsed basically on
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the table and say snuff, that's enough.
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Fantastic Snuff. I think every band name should
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involve a line in the anecdote saying they carried on drinking
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and then the band name. Well into the evening, yeah.
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All right. OK, so final question in this
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round is a Crispin Hunt is also a Grande Fromage at the Ivar's
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Academy and Purist Music, but was of course in the band Long
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Pigs. But what does Long Pig mean?
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I know this one OK. Is it?
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Is it A and a brand of animal feed seen on Hunt's father's pig
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farm? Is it BA word for the cooked
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human body when eaten by cannibals?
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Or is it CA type of surfboard that Richard Hawley learned to
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use when he went on holiday to Hawaii?
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I think it's there's no, there's no why Richard Hawley went on
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holiday to Hawaii. Is there?
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Can we stick with that image of Richard Hawley surfing in Hawaii
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though? I mean, I quite like it because,
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I mean, he'd look, I mean, he looks cool anyway, but Can you
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imagine Richard Hawley on a surfboard?
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I mean, apart from, you know, his skinny for seek might let
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him down something, but his hair man.
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Actually, that's probably why he wouldn't ever go surfing for
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fear of damaging his quiff. Yeah.
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Wild guess at Bee. What is it then, Stuart?
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At Bee, I think cannibals. It's that's correct.
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It is indeed an obsolete term translated from Maori in
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Polynesian. It's human flesh eaten by
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cannibals. Can I bust out a long pig's
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anecdote? Oh, why not?
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I interviewed, they were my first ever interview when I was
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at university and they've been on the radio.
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Might have been your show Steve, I don't know.
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They played a session and they played, she said inches by
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saying this is a song about fashion and how I despise it.
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That was his line. So I asked him what we thought
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about fashion, what's that about?
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And he, he basically Crispin said, well if we all have Big
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Blue baboons, asses, we wouldn't give a shit about fashion, would
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we? And that was the perfect
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explanation. And that's my first interview
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and I was there going. I haven't really prepared for
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how to follow that. No.
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My follow up question doesn't really match.
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I'm picturing Richard Hawley now on a surfboard with the Big Blue
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baboons, ours and his. Quote, boys, boys, can we keep
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this, keep this clean? It's This is tea time viewing.
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You're having a bad fever dream later you'd like.
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Guys, Yeah. OK, well, running score then
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it's all it really is all to play for seven all at the
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moment. And so I've got a good job.
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I've got a tiebreaker question right at the end.
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That's all I'm going to say. Round 4 is where we move on to
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our special Celebrity Superstar question, and the special
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Celebrity Superstar guest is Eddie Argos from Art Brute.
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Hello Steve, it's due Merry Christmas.
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Here's my pub quiz question for you from an actual pub art brute
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often sing about Top of the Pops.
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Yeah, sadly never performed on the show.
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The last ever regular edition of Top of the Pops was on the 23rd
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of July 2006. The Which Guitar Band performed
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the final ever song in the studio?
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Oh, that's, that's a good question.
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Yeah, 2006. 2006 Last performance in the Studio 2.
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1000 Guitar Band 2006 OK, so. What's what era is that in
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indie? That's.
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Let me give you a slight clue, which is my original wording of
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the question said which indie band and Eddie refused to call
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this artist an indie band. Oh, is it like a sort of a cold
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place, new patrol type? I'm.
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Not going to give you any more clues.
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Coldplay. Stew's going for Coldplay.
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Well, because I don't know, and I'm being tactical about this, I
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am also going to say Coldplay. See, it's getting it's getting
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under hand when it gets so close.
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The correct answer is Snow Patrol with.
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Chasing cars, yeah. So at the end of that round,
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it's still 7 all. Do you know, do you know what
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the terrible thing this quiz is like normally?
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Like what are they? There's about 12 years between
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us, isn't there Steve? And normally if I was in a face
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off in a quiz with a with someone who's 12 year old, I'm
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like, well, at least when you get the Brit pop questions, I'll
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have an advantage. But I don't, because you're
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Steve Lemak. OK.
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All right. So there we are.
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Thank you to Eddie Argos for providing that.
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And OK, the next round. So we've got rounds 5 and 6.
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Round 5 is questions for Stu about Steve based on what we've
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been doing on the podcast this year.
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So Stu, Are you ready? OK, so in in these rounds,
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there'll be 3 questions for each of you.
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About the other one, you can say the answers immediately because
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only one of you is replying. There are four questions.
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There are four points for the three questions.
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So Stu, question number one, what is the name of the OAP
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themed band that Steve has been infusing over in recent months?
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OAP themed band. Yeah.
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Oh, little granddad. Little granddad correct one
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point question #2 Steve went to a party this year.
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This is all information that has been taken from the podcast, by
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the way. Steve went to a party this year
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and chatted to which Britpop superstar singer.
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Oh, Damon Orban. Damon Orban Correct, 2 points
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and the final question has two points.
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The first question is which venue was it and what was Damon
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drinking? One point for each.
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I remember it was a party for what's his name?
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Wasn't it Mike Smith the the IT? Was, but there's no points for
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that piece. Of it was in a, it was in, it
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was in a social, I'm going to say social.
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We've talked about that sometimes.
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I'm afraid not. It was the 100 Club.
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And oh, and he was drinking lager.
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It was a double vodka. I'm afraid so.
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Two points out of four. There you go.
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Can I, can I, can I just before you ask the questions, can I
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just say black crows is the answer for all of them Black
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crows and the darkness which those are my, those are my
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answers. You may be under something here
26:33
Steve. So Steve, your questions are
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before we get onto the Black Crows questionable one.
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Again, 4 points for these three questions.
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Stu made an AI generated song to demonstrate the capabilities or
26:47
otherwise of the technology. But which London borough was
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mentioned in its terrible lyrics?
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Camden. It was Camden indeed in the song
26:57
Camden Knights, which I will not talk to you.
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I was going to say again, we play that again.
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Question #2 this is digging deep now, but so there's a bit of a
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clue here. When we were talking about fan
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clubs a few months ago, the first fan club that Stu was a
27:13
member of was for Which? Journalistic children's BBC
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show. There is only one journalistic
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BBC show for kids. It's what?
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What was it, Newsround? Stu, was it Newsround?
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It was. I was in the press pack.
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It was indeed. The news pack.
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Press pack. OK, so in the final question, as
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predicted and the the way that there's two points on offer here
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you get. But let me explain the question.
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In how many episodes has Stu mentioned the black crows?
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This is excluding the lock in on the standard show.
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How many times of all time since the podcast started has Stu
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mentioned the black crows on the podcast?
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You get 2 points if you're within one digit of the correct
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number, and one point if you're within 3 digits of the correct
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number. I mean, I don't know how many
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shows, how many shows have we done in in since we started?
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I don't know the exact number, but let's say it's at least 70.
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Well, no. Maybe 60, yeah.
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So say say we've done 60 shows, so the answer will be 59.
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No one. I think I don't mention that
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often, but I think the reaction is so fiscal that seems like
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more than it is. I'm going, I'm going to say 13
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times. This is unfortunate because
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you're 4 digits away. It was 9 times. 9 * 9 feels like
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a lot more than that. Are you sure you haven't missed
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some subtle references to the black crows along the way?
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I do. Get a lyrical reference in every
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show but no one you know any fans to know.
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You were talking about direct mentions of the band, stuff like
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that. There you go.
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So that's two points each in that round, which means hang on,
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at the end of round six, it's nine points each.
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Remarkably, head for head to head all the way along.
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So back into the final round, back to our super fans.
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This is round seven. We asked super fans for
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questions relating to Christmas music.
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That's Christmas pop music. I've got 3 questions here and
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they are all multiple choice. So give me your answers
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immediately and let's see if we can break this tie by the end.
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OK, first question from Kate Collins again.
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Kate's question is which was the first UK Christmas number one
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with the word Christmas in the title?
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Was it a Muds lonely this Christmas?
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Was it B Christmas Alphabet by Dickie Valentine or was it CI
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Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day by Wizard?
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And let me just say that one of these songs is a red herring and
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never actually made it #1. Yeah, that's the thing, isn't
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it? So did Wizard?
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Did wizard go to #1? Wasn't didn't Wizards come out
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at the same time as the other big famous Christmas one?
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What's the you know? The You mean?
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You mean Slade? Yes, Slady.
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Yeah, might have done. They had kept Wizard off.
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So I don't even know if I'm going for the the middle one,
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which I don't I can't remember. Dickie Valentine I see.
30:57
I think the most obscure 1 is like a 50s thing and it probably
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did go to #1. Yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to
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go, I'm going to go with that. Otherwise, if Wizard went to
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number one, that's, I think that's the year before.
31:11
Isn't that 73? And then lonely this Christmas
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is 74. It's definitely goes #1 and 74,
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right? I'm going to the middle one.
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I'm going for. You've got for Christmas
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alphabet. Stu yes.
31:23
Same. Yeah, we could take this to a
31:25
tie break just by answering the same all the time.
31:28
OK. So you've both gone for
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Christmas Alphabet. The correct answer is Christmas
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Alphabet by Dickie Valentine 1955.
31:35
That went to #1 and Steve, your pop knowledge is spot on.
31:41
Muds Lonely This Christmas went to number one in 1974 and I Wish
31:44
it Could be Christmas Everyday by Wizard has never been to #1.
31:47
The song was beaten to the 1973 Christmas number one spot by
31:50
Slades. Merry Christmas everybody.
31:52
There you go. Between us, we basically sketch
31:54
that plot out. Very, very well done.
31:57
Very good, very good. OK.
31:59
Yeah, remind me if I'm ever in a panic room to take take you with
32:04
me. Thank you.
32:07
Yeah, good. All right.
32:08
What's next? OK.
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Next is from Richard Bose. What was the first Christmas
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number one of the new Millennium by which we had to consult?
32:18
There's some controversy over when the Millennium begins, but
32:21
I'm taking the year Christmas 2000.
32:24
So what was the Christmas number one in the year 2000?
32:28
Was it a Bob the builders, can we fix it?
32:32
Was it B Westlife's double aside monstrosity I Have a Dream
32:36
backed with Seasons in the Sun? Or was it C Robbie Williams and
32:39
Nicole Kidman's Something Stupid?
32:48
I'm just staring at the the image of Stuart on the screen in
32:53
the hope that I can freak him out somehow.
32:54
Can I see inside your head? What are you thinking?
32:58
I can hear? The thoughts moving in students.
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Do you know what I'm thinking? I feel like there was and what
33:04
were the three options again? Bob, the Builders.
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Can we fix it? Yeah.
33:08
Westlife. I Have a Dream.
33:09
Seasons in the Sun, Robbie Williams, Nicole Kidman.
33:11
I felt like there was a chart battle between Westlife and Bob
33:14
the Builder. Am I remembering that right?
33:16
I, I am, I'm saying Bob the Builder.
33:18
OK, I'm going to say Westlife. I'm I'm fairly sure they were,
33:20
they were scrapping for #1 in that year, but so let's go for
33:23
different ones. Westlife.
33:25
Well, that's a point to Steve. It was Bob the Builder.
33:30
Can we fix it? Westlife went to number one in
33:32
1999 and Robbie Williams, Nicole Kidman in 2001.
33:36
Do you know why? Partly how I, Well, it was an
33:39
informal guess, but I do remember that year that there
33:43
was a radio plugger who I knew who instantly became the most
33:47
popular man inside every time he visited the Radio One building
33:52
because he was plugging Bob the Builder and had been given,
33:56
let's just say, a fair, fair amount of Bob the Builder
34:00
merchandise. And so I think there were a
34:04
number of radio producers who were giving their children or
34:09
their nieces or nephews free Bob the Builder toys.
34:14
I think you. Might have sparked the next BBC
34:16
inquiry, Steve. I think it's going to be Daily
34:20
Mail gets hold of this. It's.
34:21
Trouble. I mean Westlife were giving tour
34:23
jackets away but that's nothing anyway.
34:25
It was a, it was a battle that I feel like I remember being quite
34:28
pleased about the world we got #1 because Westlife were not
34:31
#1I. Think you might be under
34:33
something there? Yes, but so maybe they were
34:36
going for two consecutive years at #1 which also sounds
34:39
plausible for Westlife, but clearly not.
34:42
Three years in a row was not not not Landmark Christmas number
34:45
ones. I don't think it's.
34:46
Not sausage roll calibre. No, it's not lad baby quality.
34:51
So that moves us into our final question, which is which is not
34:55
multiple choice, it is just a straight answer.
34:57
And this is so this is a tricky finish.
34:59
It's from Ian Beresford. So this is the final question
35:03
which which Christmas chart fact links Under the Moon of Love by
35:10
Shawadiwadi, Build Me Up Buttercup by Foundations and
35:14
Happy by Pharrell Williams. So this relates to the chart.
35:22
This is about Christmas time and the chart Under the Moon of Love
35:27
by Shawari Wadi, Build Me Up, Buttercup by Foundations and
35:29
Happy by Pharrell. So, So what?
35:40
What? So there's a connection between
35:42
them? So it's a chart.
35:45
Fact connection. It's auk chart fact, singles
35:48
chart fact and they all achieved the same thing at Christmas.
35:56
Did they? OK, I've got an idea.
35:59
Go on then, Stuart. Did they like return to number
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one for Christmas, having been #1 earlier?
36:05
You're on the right track, but it's not quite right.
36:09
They were #1 the week before Christmas, Weren't number one at
36:13
Christmas, went back to #1 after Christmas.
36:18
I like your thinking. Again, not quite right.
36:19
They were all #2 in the chart on Christmas Day.
36:24
Oh, there you go. Should have, just should have
36:27
had a punt with that. Well, after after that quiz,
36:33
there's only one thing to do, and that's to tart up the
36:35
scores. Now it was neck and neck the
36:42
whole way and it was it's it's quite fulfilling, I think, to
36:45
say that it was the superfan questions at the end there, that
36:48
it was the only thing that separated you and Stu.
36:53
I'm sure you'll feel unhappy that it was your lack above the
36:57
building knowledge that is going to cause me to announce the
37:01
winner with 11 points to 10 of the price of Music Christmas
37:05
Queers as Steve Lamac. Congratulations, Steve.
37:08
Thank you very much. Stuart, gracious in defeat, is
37:13
is shaking his head. I'm.
37:16
Just thinking it's just elect his pop crime perpetuated by
37:18
Westlife. But no that was well won and
37:20
well deserved. I I had no hard.
37:22
Feelings and and really well hosted as well wasn't it yeah.
37:26
Thank you very much, Joe. That was that was that was much
37:30
better than I thought it was going to be.
37:32
And not just because because I win the not trophy.
37:37
Yes to the winner that spoils to the loser a whole year to dwell
37:42
on your mistakes. Look at yourself in the mirror
37:46
and let's just agree not to talk about this.
37:49
Episode every morning as motivation with my training.
37:55
Thank you very much, Joe. Thank you very much super fans
37:59
for sending in the questions because that really that really
38:02
made it. Thank you everybody.
38:04
There is going to be an end of year edition of the lock in
38:07
available for you super fans. We'll, we'll, we'll be answering
38:11
some of your general questions as well and giving a few
38:14
thoughts on 2025. If you'd like to become a super
38:18
fan and join us for that, you'll find details@patreon.com/the
38:23
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38:26
newest super fan. Thank you very much, Dan Society
38:30
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38:35
you'd just like to get in touch with us, any feedback on the
38:37
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38:41
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38:44
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38:50
listening. We wish you all the very best of
38:54
festive seasons. We shall return in the new Year.
38:57
Till then, look after yourselves.
38:59
Take care everybody. I think we play the closing
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credits.