by AlfGit » 21 Dec 2021 Read
He was an American soul singer. Dexy’s Midnight Runners made a song called Jackie Wilson Said, and when they performed it on Top Of The Pops, someone misunderstood and put up a giant picture of the darts player, Jocky Wilson.
Perhaps I just fluked it and it was nothing to do with Jackie Wilson. Only LDS knows.
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by chengdufan » 21 Dec 2021 Read
AlfGit wrote:He was an American soul singer. Dexy’s Midnight Runners made a song called Jackie Wilson Said, and when they performed it on Top Of The Pops, someone misunderstood and put up a giant picture of the darts player, Jocky Wilson.
Perhaps I just fluked it and it was nothing to do with Jackie Wilson. Only LDS knows.
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by LDS » 21 Dec 2021 Read
Yes, Jackie Wilson will do. The name Wilson is very common in the soul scene of yore and it's one of the first surnames that would come to anyone's mind when thinking of common snooker player names and common soul names.
The one in my mind was, of course, Al Wilson, the Northern Soul million seller and general legend.
There's also Wilson Pickett, and likely many more.
I'll admit, if you're not familiar with pre 80s soul music then the question would indeed be much harder, but for anyone who is even slightly familiar with it wouldn't need to make too much of a leap as soon as they went looking for a reason why a Cliff might be a soul singer.
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by AlfGit » 21 Dec 2021 Read
I probably would not have known the name if not for the DMR song.
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by LDS » 21 Dec 2021 Read
Yes, by the 80s they'd all moved into the background really, the stuff of legend to be sung about rather than doing the singing.
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by James Bentley » 21 Dec 2021 Read
AlfGit wrote:He was an American soul singer. Dexy’s Midnight Runners made a song called Jackie Wilson Said, and when they performed it on Top Of The Pops, someone misunderstood and put up a giant picture of the darts player, Jocky Wilson.
Amusing as this version of events is, it's not actually what happened. Kevin Rowland (the Dexy's lead singer) thought that it would be funny to have a picture of Jocky Wilson, so asked the production team to do it. The idea was that it was so absurd that everyone would surely know that it was deliberate, but loads of people ended up thinking it was just the TOTP people being clueless.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/ ... rock-myths
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by Prop » 21 Dec 2021 Read
Another strange Jackie Wilson fact, and yes, it is true.
Jackie Wilson used to take handfuls of salt tablets with large amounts of water before shows to simulate profuse sweating because, according to Wilson, “the chicks love it,” not knowing that such a habit would cause hypertension. Jackie Wilson died of complications from a heart attack at 49.
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by AlfGit » 21 Dec 2021 Read
James Bentley wrote:Amusing as this version of events is, it's not actually what happened. Kevin Rowland (the Dexy's lead singer) thought that it would be funny to have a picture of Jocky Wilson, so asked the production team to do it. The idea was that it was so absurd that everyone would surely know that it was deliberate, but loads of people ended up thinking it was just the TOTP people being clueless.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/ ... rock-myths
Thanks for the article. That makes a lot more sense. I was always suspicious of the gaffe theory. I thought it might have been a prank, but Top Of The Pops didn't generally add background imagery, so it would have been a special effort, and you would think that if it was their idea they'd clear it with the performer first.
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by Iranu » 21 Dec 2021 Read
AlfGit wrote:Woohoo!
Next puzzle:
Grand Finale
Bill Werbeniuk?
Grand = Big (Big Bill)
The bill is the finale of a meal in a restaurant
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by AlfGit » 21 Dec 2021 Read
Iranu wrote:Bill Werbeniuk?
Grand = Big (Big Bill)
The bill is the finale of a meal in a restaurant
Not Bill, but you are very much on the right track.
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by Prop » 22 Dec 2021 Read
LDS wrote:It ain't over till Shaun Murphy/Stephen Lee sings?
‘Dame Shaun Murphy’
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by AlfGit » 22 Dec 2021 Read
Sorry, not Shaun Murphy or Stephen Lee.
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by AlfGit » 28 Dec 2021 Read
This is a one-word-per-name clue. It is simple word association and word play. It involves one piece of trivia, but every Brit knows it.
Iranu had the right idea. Perhaps a little weed could have helped him.
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by AlfGit » 29 Dec 2021 Read
Iranu got the correct synonym:
Grand > Big
But it is not Big Bill.
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by Iranu » 29 Dec 2021 Read
Robin Hull?
Big Finish is a Grand Finale and Hull is Finnish.
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by AlfGit » 29 Dec 2021 Read
Not Jack Lisowski.
The horticultural hint can take you from Bill to the correct first name - if you are old enough.
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by AlfGit » 29 Dec 2021 Read
Iranu wrote:Robin Hull?
Big Finish is a Grand Finale and Hull is Finnish.
Good thinking, but no. Don't forget, one word = one name.
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by Iranu » 29 Dec 2021 Read
Ben Hancorn?
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by AlfGit » 29 Dec 2021 Read
Iranu wrote:Ben Hancorn?
Not Hancorn, sorry.
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by AlfGit » 29 Dec 2021 Read
It's a groaner. I will probably get yelled at again.
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by Iranu » 29 Dec 2021 Read
Is weed a reference to Bill and Ben? As in Big Ben?
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by AlfGit » 29 Dec 2021 Read
Iranu wrote:Is weed a reference to Bill and Ben? As in Big Ben?
You appear to be old enough.
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by AlfGit » 29 Dec 2021 Read
Someone is surely going to swoop in for a steal.
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by Prop » 30 Dec 2021 Read
Big Ben Mertens? Because he’s not so little any more?
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by AlfGit » 30 Dec 2021 Read
Prop wrote:Big Ben Mertens? Because he’s not so little any more?
I haven’t heard of Ben Mertens, sorry.
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by Prop » 30 Dec 2021 Read
Ben Woolaston?
Big Ben, and ‘last on’.
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