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magpie in the 80's wrote:identify the song title, artist and year in which the song was a hit in Australia.


1. Pictures came and broke your heart - Video Killed the Radio Star - The Biggles
2. Gonna fly right out of here, without a single word, without another tear, gonna take that big white bird
3. ou think you are a new kind of James Dean
4. It's a girl, my Lord, in a flat bed ford, slowing down to take a look at me
5. We could have made it cruising, yeah
6. You don't have to shout or leap about, you can even play them easy
7. I see your laundromat's up for sale
8. And all the beads we made by hand are nowadays made in Japan
9. Jeremiah was a bullfrog -Joy to the World/3 dog night
10. Now I'm not the kind of person with a passionate persuasion for dancin'
11. Three nights ago I was at a disco
12. Out in the courtyard they're ready for me but I go to my death with no fear
13. I don't like cricket, oh no, I love it Dreadlock holiday/ 10cc
14. In my dreams I have a plan
15. Don't be cold, don't be angry to me
16. I've got an emptiness deep inside, and I've tried, but it won't let me go
17. Alleys that we run through
18. Keep it up girl, yeah you turn me on
19. Don't go too fast, but I go pretty far
20. To avoid complications she never kept the same address
21. That night on our honeymoon we stayed in separate rooms
22. Send your camels to bed
23. I'm invited in for coffee and I give the dog a bone -Kool for Kats - UK Squeeze
24. And the operator says 'forty cents more'
25. He knows how to talk and he knows how to fight
26. We all came out to Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline - smoke on the water/Deep Purple
27. Falling in love could be your mistake - isnt it time/ the babies
28. Wanna fly high over a rainbow, wanna find a heaven on earth we can share
29. Madness takes its toll - Time warp- Riff Raff
30. Though it may sound strange to you, it is absolutely true, you can believe it or not
31. I'm coming home, I've done my time
32. I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard -hard rains gonna fall/bob dylan
33. Crystal ball on the table
34. I may make you feel but I can't make you think
35. And the lesson today is how to die
36. He had white horses and ladies by the score
37. Tonight we're gonna make it all come true
38. Getting cards and letters from people I don't even know
39. We must surrender to the powers that be
40. Though your brother's bound and gagged and they've chained him to a chair
41. There's a hole in my head where the rain comes in
42. The words will never show the you I've come to know
43. Keep it up, quench my desire
44. Sitting cross-legged on the floor
45. On a long and lonesome highway east of Omaha The year of the cat/ al stewart
46. Oh, we really love you and we think the world about you
47. Love is like a flame, it burns you when it's hot
48. From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen - Father and Son - Cat Steven
49.Something in your eyes gives me a wild idea
50. Life is old there, older than the seas

FattyLumpkin wrote:24. Smokey - title?? "Please Mrs Abraham? - I just want to talk to her..."

rogernumber10 wrote:1 - Video Killed the Radio Star, the Buggles, 1979...........all correct
4 - Take it Easy, Jackson Browne, 1977?........song correct ......the rest incorrect
20- Killer Queen, Queen, 1976?...................song and artist correct.....year incorrect
23 - Cool for Cats, UK Squeeze, 1979??..........all correct
29 - Time Warp, Original Cast of Rocky Horror Picture Show Movie, 1977?....song and artist correct..year incorrect
35 - I don't like Mondays, Boomtown Rats, 1978?...........song and artist correct........year incorrect
50 - Country Road, John Denver, 1975?..............song and title correct......year incorrect

the years are a struggle, trying to remember the difference between six and seven, 10 and 11 et etc and place the song accordingly

FattyLumpkin wrote:Guessing the years here (and titles....and artists!)

9. Three Dog Night - Joy to the World. '72 or 73??.............song and artist correct........year incorrect
10. Rio - Peter Allen - ??76?.................song and artist correct ..year incorrect
12. I did what I did for maria -
13. 10CC - Jamaica (I'm not sure what its called??) - '77??........artist correct........rest incorrect
20. Killer Queen - Queen - ?77??.......song and artist correct.........year incorrect
23. Cool for Cats - ??? '76 ??.........song correct.....rest incorrect
24. Smokey - title?? "Please Mrs Abraham? - I just want to talk to her..."
25. Float Like a Butterfly - Sting like a Bee or Mohammed Ali Song - 1977 or 76...........incorrect
26. Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water '72?.....song and artist correct........year incorrect
29. Time Ward - Rocky Horror - '73??...........song and artist correct.........year incorrect
35. I don't like Mondays - Boomtown Rats - ??'74/5.........song and artist correct........year incorrect
38. Rhinestone Cowboy - Glenn Campbell - '74.........song and artist correct.....year incorrect

FattyLumpkin wrote:FC - 33 be Devil Woman - I'll guess '76

Falcon Chick wrote:shite, i didnt see the YEAR bit... and I thought this was an easy quiz

3. Movie star by Harpo, but dont ask me the year!

magpie in the 80's wrote:i'm going to be TOUGH on this quiz and ONLY answer the posts that QUOTE the THREE ANSWERS required

rogernumber10 wrote:

magpie in the 80's wrote:i'm going to be TOUGH on this quiz and ONLY answer the posts that QUOTE the THREE ANSWERS required

obviously you've had an attack 'end of the week time to be a bastard' disease that can often strike down many of us. this quiz may now take until the 70s (of this century) to finish. Have to go home and do some research on all my taped casettes to approximate years

godoubleblues wrote:Q13 - Dreadlock Holiday/10CC/1978...correct song and artist.....year incorrect
Q18 - Hooked on a Feeling/Blue Swede/1974
Q41 - Evil Woman/ELO/1975

magpie in the 80's wrote:

godoubleblues wrote:Q13 - Dreadlock Holiday/10CC/1978...correct song and artist.....year incorrect
Q18 - Hooked on a Feeling/Blue Swede/1974
Q41 - Evil Woman/ELO/1975

other 2 all correct gdb