Let's have a pop quiz!

[Noodley]

[quote name='swee'pea99']Clive Dunn

Grandad, Grandad, you're lovely
That's what we all think of yooooo

He was 87. Or something.[/QUOTE]

Nah, he was only about 50 and just 'made up' was he not?

Edit - posted just after Speck

 

[PaulB]

[quote name='swee'pea99']Clive Dunn

Grandad, Grandad, you're lovely
That's what we all think of yooooo

He was 87. Or something.[/QUOTE]

No, he was relatively young. He just made himself up to look old but wasn't he one of the youngest of the Dad's Army mob?

 

[Norm]

Louis Armstrong?

ding ding ding ding

We have a winner.

 

[PaulB]

Alright.

Graham McPherson is better known by his "pop" name which is....

 

[Norm]

I can do that one, as I've always been a bit of a Nutty Boy, although I've never figured out how he got from that to Suggs.

 

[PaulB]

I can do that one, as I've always been a bit of a Nutty Boy, although I've never figured out how he got from that to Suggs.

Norm's go.

 

[Norm]

What's the biggest selling single in the UK?

 

[PaulB]

What's the biggest selling single in the UK?

What, currently, or of all time?

 

[swee'pea99]

Please tell me it's not still Mull of Kintyre. God what a dirge...

 

[Norm]

What, currently, or of all time?

Of all time... otherwise I'd have just said "what's the current number 1". I was wondering how to phrase it though.

And no, Mull of Kintyre is the fourth biggest, I think.

 

[PaulB]

It's either Band Aid or Elton John's Candle in the Wind, isn't it?

Either that or "Leap up and down and wave your knickers in the air".

 

[Archie_tect]

The Band Aid song?

 

[Norm]

It's either Band Aid or Elton John's Candle in the Wind, isn't it?

It is... but I can't take that as an answer.

Although, as Archie didn't get it right...

 

[Archie_tect]

Elton John's Candle in the Wind,

Yuk... but which version... the Lady Di one? [maukish and opportunistic!]

 

[Norm]

It was, and by quite a margin!

1. "Candle In The Wind '97" - Elton John. (4.865 million)
   The lyrics to Elton's 1974 classic were re-written in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales. The song was only ever performed once publicly; at Diana's funeral. It has sold 37 million around the world.
2. "Do They Know It's Christmas?" - Band Aid. (3.575m)
   The first ever multi-artist charity single (*), this track was recorded in Christmas 1984 by a host of celebrity vocalists to raise money for the famine in Ethiopia.
3. "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen. (2.176m)
   Arguably the first track to benefit from having a video, this epic spent 9 weeks at number 1 across Christmas 1975 (1.19m). It returned to the top for a further 5 weeks at number 1 at Christmas 1991, a few weeks after the death of lead singer, Freddie Mercury (0.94m).
4. "Mull Of Kintyre" - Wings (2.05m)
5. "Rivers Of Babylon" / "Brown Girl In The Ring" - Boney M (1.985m)
6. "You're The One That I Want" - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John (1.975m)
7. "Relax" - Frankie Goes To Hollywood (1.91m)
8. "She Loves You" - The Beatles (1.89m)
9. "Unchained Melody" - Robson & Jerome (1.84m)
10. "Mary's Boychild - Oh My Lord" - Boney M (1.80m)

Two by Boney M, one by Queen. There is no justice in this world.