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Round 1: 27 Discotheque, Alisha Rules The World, Heatwave Round 2: 30 Billy Joel, the year, Leo Sayer 3 in 10: 3 Girls And Boys, Song 2, Country House

Sleepwalk is a great debut for Ultravox and the best song there, followed by Private Life and The Winner Takes It All.

Well done John on the double 39. Round 1: 33 Randy Edelman, Denis Round 2: 30 The Music, Year Of Decision 3 in 10: 1 Harvest For The World

I only have the Best Of Pink Floyd double CD and The Division Bell but I've listened to some of their other albums on Spotify a few times including Animals. I've just had another listen now and would put 'Sheep' forward as being the best track with 'Dogs' in second place and 'Pigs' third. Overall, it's a good album with the guitar playing standing out. For 70s prog rock, I've always much preferred Genesis and Yes and have never really fully embraced the music of Pink Floyd. Maybe it's because the other two groups use keyboard sounds to a much greater extent rather than relying mainly on guitars for the instrumentation and also their lead singers are better vocalists.

Round 1: 27 Whitney Houston, Change Of Heart, Got To Have Your Love Round 2: 21 Redbone, Brilliant, Echo and the Bunnymen, Don Henley 3 in 10: 2 Is This Love, Fool For Your Loving

22nd - 28th July 1965 37. This World Is Not My Home - Jim Reeves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ndMZqT6i4I Quite a religious song about wanting to be in Heaven so I hope for his sake it turned out to be what he was expecting. 38. In Thoughts Of You - Billy Fury https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUbw1CxsRiQ Billy's last top 10 hit is OK with good use of the piano and orchestra. 40. This Strange Effect - Dave Berry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l7kFT8BNj8 Written by Ray Davies, this is a sparsely produced love song that I think would sound better if someone else was singing it. I don't like his tuneless sounding vocal. Hooverphonic, The Undertones and Squeeze have all covered it so there is potential in the song and maybe I might prefer one of the other versions if I check them out. Record of the week : 17. We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place - The Animals I like how this builds up steadily over the first minute and a quarter before we get to the first chorus. It's another fantastic vocal from Eric Burdon who I'd certainly put down as one of my favourite singers from the 60s. The single will peak at number 2 and end up in the Grammy Hall Of Fame.

Round 1: 36 The year (one year out) Round 2: 24 Tonight I'm Yours (I said Tonight You're Mine), the year, When The Heartache Is Over 3 in 10: 3 I Feel Love, Dinner With Gershwin, This Time I Know It's For Real

Ultravox - Sleepwalk Electric Light Orchestra - All Over The World David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes Peter Gabriel - Biko Hazel O'Connor - Eighth Day No room for Split Enz, Piranhas or Bow Wow Wow

Thanks Calum for putting so much effort into this and getting every round started so promptly. I don't often look at the pop forum so it was great taking part in the event and getting as far as the final.

Congratulations Avril La Scene. I'm really pleased to get the Pet Shop Boys as far as second place.

I think the points for both songs are added together so if Avril was in the lead after the first one, she could still win even if her second song is outscored by Christina's.

From the last batch, my favourites are Xanadu, Play The Game, Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps Please and To Be Or Not To Be.

Congratulations Addy and bad luck Dandy on just missing out. 12th place is a respectable finish for my entry. Thanks Julian for doing a fantastic job hosting a contest for the first time.

Round 1: 39 💥 Round 2: 36 Change Your Mind 3 in 10: 2 When A Child Is Born, Too Much Too Little Too Late

I didn't know the song before the contest. I didn't think I'd like anything by an artist from one of the well known talent shows so I went hunting for something else. Thanks to all those who have given points to 'Chameleon Life' so far, especially Chris for the 12.

Round 1: 18 Life, Disco Stomp, This Town, Hello, Status Quo Round 2: 36 White 3 in 10: 1 Jenny From The Block

Thanks. 39 on round 2 for both of us again today. Round 1: 30 Circus Games, Lobo Round 2: 39 💥 3 in 10: 3 Talk Of The Town, I Go To Sleep, 2000 Miles

Thanks to all those who voted for The Idle Race and well done to all the qualifiers.

It was difficult to choose between Left To My Own Devices and What Have I Done To Deserve This. Left To My Own Devices is my favourite Pet Shop Boys song and it does have recent form, finishing 2nd in the Trevor Horn Rate, so I decided to go with it. Going into the semi-finals, I thought I would need both songs as we were told we needed ten in total but it turned out that only applied to those who went into the Golden Wagner round. I wish I hadn't used Always On My Mind in the first round but I didn't know then which acts had been sent by everyone else so I wanted to play it safe at the start. Anyway, I'm glad that the Pet Shop Boys still have a chance.

Thanks RobBot for saving the Pet Shop Boys. 😃

No Self Control is one of my favourite songs from Peter Gabriel. With Phil Collins on drums and Kate Bush on backing vocals, that's quite a supergroup on that one. Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime is a timeless gem so I agree that they should be the top 2. Next, I would put I'm Alive. ELO had the same 7 member line-up from 1975 to 1979 but Jeff Lynne has just fired the two cello players by sending them letters in the post so they are now down to five and I'm Alive is a bit of a transition from the orchestral pop of the 70s to the synthpop of 1981's Time album. Louis Clark's orchestra can still be heard on the song but not quite as prominent.

It looks like question 9 decided it, then. Thanks Mack for organising this.

Round 1: 33 Lynsey De Paul, BB King Round 2: 39 💥 3 in 10: 0 Couldn't remember any of them

15th - 21st July 1965 31. He's Got No Love - The Searchers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDk5LBckE9I There's a hint of the early 90s Britpop sound from the guitars on this one which was the first top 40 hit by The Searchers that they wrote themselves. 33. With These Hands - Tom Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wv_13iTwpE A cover of an Eddie Fisher song from 1953 which showcases his vocal abilities but he's only 25 and I'd like to see him going back to the more contemporary sound of his number 1 single, 'It's Not Unusual'. 34. Cry To Me - The Pretty Things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVk18F2chbM This will the last of the band's three top 40 hits and it has the same raw, blues rock sound to it, maybe not commercial enough to keep them in the charts for any longer. They will, however, keep going well into the 21st Century. 35. The Ballad Of Spotty Muldoon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDQQTvnTnlY Just a month after 'Goodbye-ee' comes another novelty song from Peter Cook. This one, about someone with spots on his face, is not quite as bad but maybe not the right subject for humour as plenty of teenagers at the time might have been suffering from the same affliction. 38. Catch Us If You Can - The Dave Clark Five https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKw9AYPeCz8 After some lower charting singles, this one will return the group to the top 5. I've always found the "mmm"s to be irritating but I like the chorus and the harmonica solo. Record of the week : 23. I Can't Help Myself - The Four Tops Formed in 1953, The Four Tops did not have their first US hit single until 1964 and this will be their first UK hit. It's just so joyous and catchy and there's a fine lead vocal from Levi Stubbs. It will go no higher than this position but a re-issue will make the top 10 in 1970. The single will also top the Billboard chart.

In a lot of song contests I take part in, my entry is fairly obvious but not this time it seems.