POPMASTER!
Thank you for all your random pop facts! Here they are, unedited, for everyone's enjoyment!
huskyteer -- Before their success in the 60s, Simon and Garfunkel performed Everly Brothers-style rock and roll as 'Tom and Jerry'
angelv -- Rachel Stevens has size 3.5 feet!
bagrec -- Mary Hopkin sang backing vocals on David Bowie's "Sound and Vision" (as Mary Visconti)
miss_newham -- Australian pop star John Farnham was, in fact, born in Basildon. Or was it Dagenham?
land_girl -- Jilted John's one hit wonder, Jilted John, only reached number 4 in the charts although almost everybody over the age of 30 can hum it!
tonight_we_fly -- I was once filmed crawling around dressed as a cat in a video for Th' Faith Healers, but I don't think the footage was ever used in the end. Well, I've never seen it.
mrs_leroy_brown -- oh all my obscure facts have to do with The White Stripes. Uhm Jack's first band was Goober & the Peas, he was a durmmer. First band as guitarist was The Upholsterers. His birth name is John Gillis
katstevens -- One of the guys who wrote the lyrics to the post-rock track on the new Beyonce album also wrote the lyrics to 'No Air' by Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown!
sbp -- Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath plays with artificial fingertips made out of washing-up liquid bottles, because he sliced his fingertips off in an industrial accident when he was 17
burkesworks -- "Standing in the Road" by Blackfoot Sue was NOT penned by the burly physio of non-league Farnborough Town.
kiss_me_quick -- If there were enough room, I would tell you the best selling UK singles of every year from 1980 to 1991.
yiskah -- wah, I don't know any! ask tom.
shermarama -- Elvis Costello's real name is Declan McManus.
lifesizemonkey -- Chris Lowe of Pet Shop Boys trained as an architect
tomatorama -- I only know made up ones, like that Rod Stewart invented bread (according to Bob Mortimer)
friend_of_tofu -- Should this be an obscure fact about pop, or a fact about obscure pop?
maxinemogadon -- Mark E Smith likes to start drinking at 12 noon on a saturday and doesn't like to be disturbed
steviecat -- Poly Styrene's maths teacher was Brian May of Queen !
None of these were any use to me whatsoever last night, but we still did well! Sort of. We entered two teams from work and my team were generally reckoned to be the hopeless outsiders, but for the first five rounds we knew almost everything! We were in second place for an hour and got so overexcited and shouty about our thrilling unexpected success that we were probably very obnoxious. Then it all got really hard (there was a hideous round where they played two records at once and you had to identify them both - flippin' impossible) and we dropped to something like 12th place, beating the other work team by about one point. But oh, that first hour was exciting, and because I knew more answers than anyone else I now have an AWESOME reputation at work as queen of pop trivia. I hope you're all proud of me!
Mike Read wasn't there in the end, but I saw Janice Long, Gary Crowley and Mark Goodier (all of whom I think are dreadful) in the same room. This morning I got a text from a friend saying "Where was the room? In 1992?".
Have a lovely weekend y'all! I am working both days and possibly going to an 85th birthday party!
PS And John Shuttleworth was there too! But I couldn't spot him, which was probably just as well as I would have approached him excitedly and told him how much I like land_girl...
huskyteer -- Before their success in the 60s, Simon and Garfunkel performed Everly Brothers-style rock and roll as 'Tom and Jerry'
angelv -- Rachel Stevens has size 3.5 feet!
bagrec -- Mary Hopkin sang backing vocals on David Bowie's "Sound and Vision" (as Mary Visconti)
miss_newham -- Australian pop star John Farnham was, in fact, born in Basildon. Or was it Dagenham?
land_girl -- Jilted John's one hit wonder, Jilted John, only reached number 4 in the charts although almost everybody over the age of 30 can hum it!
tonight_we_fly -- I was once filmed crawling around dressed as a cat in a video for Th' Faith Healers, but I don't think the footage was ever used in the end. Well, I've never seen it.
mrs_leroy_brown -- oh all my obscure facts have to do with The White Stripes. Uhm Jack's first band was Goober & the Peas, he was a durmmer. First band as guitarist was The Upholsterers. His birth name is John Gillis
katstevens -- One of the guys who wrote the lyrics to the post-rock track on the new Beyonce album also wrote the lyrics to 'No Air' by Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown!
sbp -- Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath plays with artificial fingertips made out of washing-up liquid bottles, because he sliced his fingertips off in an industrial accident when he was 17
burkesworks -- "Standing in the Road" by Blackfoot Sue was NOT penned by the burly physio of non-league Farnborough Town.
kiss_me_quick -- If there were enough room, I would tell you the best selling UK singles of every year from 1980 to 1991.
yiskah -- wah, I don't know any! ask tom.
shermarama -- Elvis Costello's real name is Declan McManus.
lifesizemonkey -- Chris Lowe of Pet Shop Boys trained as an architect
tomatorama -- I only know made up ones, like that Rod Stewart invented bread (according to Bob Mortimer)
friend_of_tofu -- Should this be an obscure fact about pop, or a fact about obscure pop?
maxinemogadon -- Mark E Smith likes to start drinking at 12 noon on a saturday and doesn't like to be disturbed
steviecat -- Poly Styrene's maths teacher was Brian May of Queen !
None of these were any use to me whatsoever last night, but we still did well! Sort of. We entered two teams from work and my team were generally reckoned to be the hopeless outsiders, but for the first five rounds we knew almost everything! We were in second place for an hour and got so overexcited and shouty about our thrilling unexpected success that we were probably very obnoxious. Then it all got really hard (there was a hideous round where they played two records at once and you had to identify them both - flippin' impossible) and we dropped to something like 12th place, beating the other work team by about one point. But oh, that first hour was exciting, and because I knew more answers than anyone else I now have an AWESOME reputation at work as queen of pop trivia. I hope you're all proud of me!
Mike Read wasn't there in the end, but I saw Janice Long, Gary Crowley and Mark Goodier (all of whom I think are dreadful) in the same room. This morning I got a text from a friend saying "Where was the room? In 1992?".
Have a lovely weekend y'all! I am working both days and possibly going to an 85th birthday party!
PS And John Shuttleworth was there too! But I couldn't spot him, which was probably just as well as I would have approached him excitedly and told him how much I like land_girl...