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Comments on my list (or general comments) here, thanks.
Your experience in the other comments box, please.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 19.06.22 - 12:20 a.m. | #
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Eric Idle performed "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" in the London 2012 closing ceremony - it reached number 3 in the charts in 1991. Should that make your total 86?
dg writes: I wasn't there.
martin | 19.06.22 - 8:21 a.m. | #
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Oops, apparently I misread Paralympic as Olympic.
martin | 19.06.22 - 8:23 a.m. | #
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I think your best letter is P. Pure brilliance, all three.
Ian | 19.06.22 - 8:36 a.m. | #
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Propaganda! Wow!
I didn't know they'd ever played live.
Joho | Homepage | 19.06.22 - 8:51 a.m. | #
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Dollar! Superb!
Philip | 19.06.22 - 8:56 a.m. | #
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Rachel Stevens I remember from Trafalgar Square just before the announcement but I can’t recall Heather Smalls at all. Must have left to get the train.
Kevin | 19.06.22 - 9:29 a.m. | #
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Really impressed by some of these... The shining pop gems of the first half of the 80s especially.
Dominic H | 19.06.22 - 9:39 a.m. | #
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From your pre-diary days, I seem to remember taking the young DG to see the Spinners in concert in Watford Town Hall. They were in the charts so would they count?
dg writes: added, thanks Dad.
DGD | 19.06.22 - 9:42 a.m. | #
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I've now got that North and South sound embeded in my head.
Gareth | 19.06.22 - 9:45 a.m. | #
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Impressed with Buggles, that's for sure
Jaco | 19.06.22 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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I have no idea who North & South were but I'm guessing their connection to the works of Elizabeth Gaskell was tenuous at best.
Jonathan Wadman | 19.06.22 - 10:44 a.m. | #
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Well, Wikipedia has three bands called Propaganda (and American Christian rapper) but only the German band appears to have had much UK chart success.
They performed at Trevor Horn's Concert for the Prince's Trust in 2004, where the setlist seems to account for several on the list.
Andrew | 19.06.22 - 11:08 a.m. | #
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My list of your list:
Never heard of, had to look up = 23
Heard of, but can't name a track = 34 *
Heard of, know at least one track = 28
Heard of, big fan, have the albums = 2
* Unprompted
jpmac | 19.06.22 - 11:25 a.m. | #
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You've done pretty well to see Yoko Ono. I'd wager only a few thousand people in the UK can claim that.
Will | 19.06.22 - 12:29 p.m. | #
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I agree, the 'S' line up is pretty strong
Bob | 19.06.22 - 2:20 p.m. | #
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Respect to the breadth of bands you've seen. There are quite a few I'd like'd to have seen.
Jon Jones | 19.06.22 - 4:02 p.m. | #
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I find sites like songkick.com and setlist.fm are invaluable when trying to work this stuff out.
Dave Cross | Homepage | 19.06.22 - 4:12 p.m. | #
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In contrast to Jon Jones I was surprised at the lack of breadth. With the odd exception there was little in the way of rock, punk/new wave, folk, indie or singer-songwriters.
An indication of which acts were an active choice rather than just on the bill as support etc would be interesting.
Andrew S | 19.06.22 - 6:09 p.m. | #
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I've just remembered another band (who I've seen twice), and the S list just gets better.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 19.06.22 - 6:31 p.m. | #
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Just out of interest (because this is now how I'm going to spend my evening), how are you defining "hit record", please? A single that's charted in the top 40?
dg writes: loosely, have the Official Charts Company heard of them? (single or album)
Jamesthegill | 19.06.22 - 7:15 p.m. | #
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(n.b. I have moved some of your comments to the other comments box) (or even the other comments box in the other comments box)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 19.06.22 - 8:00 p.m. | #
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I only cross-over with five live bands out of your line-up,. (B, K, P, R, S)
Jayne | 19.06.22 - 9:25 p.m. | #
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Was it a Buggles gig? Or the same Trevor Horn PR freebie that I went to where he sang Video Killed The Radio Star?
dg writes: Yes. No.
Tintinhaddock | 19.06.22 - 10:05 p.m. | #
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Weirdly the only act we have in common is one of the most obscure ones in your list, The Polyphonic Spree, who I've seen supporting The Divine Comedy.
Mikey C | 20.06.22 - 12:24 a.m. | #
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I have seen hundreds of bands in my time but the first group you and I have in common was not until the letter 'M'.
Nigel | 20.06.22 - 9:35 a.m. | #
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Two from your list I had worked on (studio stuff without them being there).
commonliner | 20.06.22 - 9:57 a.m. | #
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Who knew that you were such a fan of early 90s dance music?! Did you see artists such as The Shamen and JX at individual gigs back in the day, or at one of those more recent throwback concerts with a big line-up?
gooneruk | Homepage | 20.06.22 - 10:23 a.m. | #
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Our lists of live gigs have in common only Yes (Riley Smith Hall, Leeds University, around 1970) and Mike Oldfield (a free concert in Guildhall Yard during the City of London Festival in the early 1980s).
Ian Paton | 20.06.22 - 10:47 a.m. | #
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Loved Propaganda. Art Of Noise & FGTH also
ZTT Was THE label for a while in the mid-80's
There's quite a bit of Propaganda live stuff on Youtube, including an appearance on The Tube (the Channel 4 music programme that is!).
Karl, Dover | 24.06.22 - 9:26 p.m. | #
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