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Daily Chart Quiz Question - Day 23

 

What is the connection between all of these eight tracks - I have given you some lyrics (& the year the song dates from)?

 

1. "Beware I bear more grudges, then lonely high court judges" (1994)

 

2. "From an uptown apartment, to a knife on the A train" (1991)

 

3. "How Long? How long must we sing this song?" (1983)

 

4. "I could have been someone. Well so could anyone" (1987)

 

5. "I look like Robert De Niro, I drive a Mitsubishi Zero" (1991)

 

6. "Jeux sans frontiers" (1980)

 

7. "So far, so good, so close, yet still so far" (1983)

 

8. "Then I could win my own, small, battle of the sexes" (1980)

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I will guess that one of the singers on the track has passed away. I base this on number 4, which has Kirsty MacColl on it!
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I will guess that one of the singers on the track has passed away. I base this on number 4, which has Kirsty MacColl on it!

 

Nope.

 

If you start working out the tracks & artists it might help. :lol:

 

I will guess that one of the singers on the track has passed away. I base this on number 4, which has Kirsty MacColl on it!

2. seems to be Kirsty MacColl's - Walking Down Madison

So are they all Kirsty MacColl related?

 

First is a Morrisey song :unsure:

 

1. "Beware I bear more grudges, then lonely high court judges" (1994) Morrissey - The more you ignore me,the closer I get.

2. "From an uptown apartment, to a knife on the A train" (1991) Kirsty MacColl - Walking down Madison.

 

3. "How Long? How long must we sing this song?" (1983) U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday.

 

4. "I could have been someone. Well so could anyone" (1987) Pogues/Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

 

5. "I look like Robert De Niro, I drive a Mitsubishi Zero" (1991) Billy Bragg - Sexuality.

 

6. "Jeux sans frontiers" (1980) Peter Gabriel - Games without Frontiers.

 

7. "So far, so good, so close, yet still so far" (1983) Simple Minds - Waterfront

 

8. "Then I could win my own, small, battle of the sexes" (1980) XTC - Sergeant Rock

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1. "Beware I bear more grudges, then lonely high court judges" (1994) Morrissey - The more you ignore me,the closer I get.

2. "From an uptown apartment, to a knife on the A train" (1991) Kirsty MacColl - Walking down Madison.

 

3. "How Long? How long must we sing this song?" (1983) U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday.

 

4. "I could have been someone. Well so could anyone" (1987) Pogues/Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

 

5. "I look like Robert De Niro, I drive a Mitsubishi Zero" (1991) Billy Bragg - Sexuality.

 

6. "Jeux sans frontiers" (1980) Peter Gabriel - Games without Frontiers.

 

7. "So far, so good, so close, yet still so far" (1983) Simple Minds - Waterfront

 

8. "Then I could win my own, small, battle of the sexes" (1980) XTC - Sergeant Rock

 

 

Correct - But what do all these tracks have in common?

 

 

They all featured a famous uncredited artist on those songs ??

 

I know Kate Bush did the backing vocals on 'Games without Frontiers'.

6 is Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers

 

It is all artists that have had a duoettes(spelling?)..with other artists?

 

Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush, Morrissey And Siouxsie, Kirsty MacColl and the Pogues etc

6 is Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers

 

It is all artists that have had a duoettes(spelling?)..with other artists?

 

Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush, Morrissey And Siouxsie, Kirsty MacColl and the Pogues etc

No :( because nothing for simple minds.

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No -you've yet to get the answer.

 

I could have also included in the connection:

 

Harlem Shuffle - The Rolling Stones 1986

Is It Like Today - World Party 1993

American Girls - Counting Crows ft Sheryl Crow 2002

Blind - Talking Heads 1988

Vertigo - U2 2004 ......

 

 

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is it they have all been produced by Steve Lillywhite?

 

Is the correct answer. :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

 

 

 

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Steve Lillywhite was married to the late Kirsty MacColl with whom they had two children.

 

As a producer Steve Lillywhite produced a lot of UK #1 albums starting with Peter Gabriel's 3rd album in 1980 and won a grammy in 2005 for producing U2's How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.

 

But can anyone name the first UK #1 hit single which he produced 22 years later (in 2002)?

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He never produced a no.1 single in 2002.

 

He did as part of a foursome under the pseudonym "The Misfits" with Pete Glenister; Deni Lew & the artist in question.

He never produced a no.1 single in 2002.

 

Did he produced #1 hit Colourblind for Darius

 

darius colourblind- though it was just credited as glenister & Lew

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