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O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

pgn — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:00:50 GMT

Welcome all, another chance for the Forum Festive Frivolities to continue - come join the fun!

Hidden in a straight line across, up, down or diagonally (backwards or forwards too!) in the grid below are 31 singles titles. Each has been a #1 hit in the UK in the week in which Christmas Day fell, from the 1950s to last year,

The rules are simple:

- Find a title in the grid, give me the full title as printed in the grid, the start and end co-ordinates of the title and the title's group/singer/band name for a point;

- For a bonus, give me the year (or years - a bonus point per year) that the title by that artist was at the top in the Christmas Week chart;

- First person to tell me the year or years gets the bonus.

Then give someone else a chance, and repeat.

I'll be back to update the grid and keep track of the scores at intervals during the day. I will compile the winners towards the end of day.

NB: There are a few tricky ones in there, where a song or variant of a song was released by different artists, or where a release was a double A-side, watch out!

PS. Feel free to use any tool at your disposal to check date(s) and/or artist/s once you have found a title in the grid.

Here's an Example answer:

R1 - L8 "Mr Blobby", by Mr Blobby, in 1993 - this would score 1 point + 1 bonus point

Over to you, happy hunting: @Cleoriff @Bambino @blissgirl @BobM @Cairdeas1 @gmarkj @J9el @lewys-gp @madasaf1sh @MAKAZAGA @Martin-O2 @Mi-Amigo

@MI5 @Pennywren @Projectionist @RafaC @RunrigForever @sheepdog @TallTrees and anyone else who fancies a go! (@jonsie has a buy-ball in this one, by prior arrangement )

Re: O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

lewys-gp — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:05:55 GMT

Here we go!

Re: O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

Mi-Amigo — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:09:44 GMT

Brilliant @pgn

Here goes

V1 - V14 SOMETHING STUPID by Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman No1 Xmas 2001

Re: O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

pgn — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:15:29 GMT

And @Mi-Amigo gets in there first - but an extra letter has crept in somewhere - check it out for your point!

Re: O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

lewys-gp — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:15:40 GMT

A15 - U15, "Another Brick in the Wall", By Pink Floyd, in 1969.

The year is a complete guess, sorry 🤔.

Re: O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

TallTrees — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:17:59 GMT

@pgn

No good at this

A21 Merry Christmas Everyone V21 Shakin Stevens no idea date 😃 I think

Re: O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

pgn — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:20:26 GMT

And there's another one almost gone - @lewys-gp got the title and the artist, missed on the year!

Re: O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

pgn — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:22:49 GMT

And @TallTrees lands one - no year, but title and track

Re: O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

RafaC — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:23:03 GMT

Great game @pgn!!
Another Brick in the Wall is from a decade later of what @lewys-gp has guessed, so 1979.

Here's another one:
24A to 24Y These Are The Days of Our Lives by Queen, 1991.

Re: O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

Mi-Amigo — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:23:11 GMT

@pgn wrote:
And @Mi-Amigo gets in there first - but an extra letter has crept in somewhere - check it out for your point!

Should be

V1 - V14 SOMETHIN STUPID [no G] by Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman No 1 Xmas 2001

Re: O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

lewys-gp — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:24:17 GMT

A24 - Y24, "These Are the Days of Our Lives", by Queen, in 1991.

I think my useless Queen knowledge has come in handy here 😂.

Re: O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

lewys-gp — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:25:22 GMT

@RafaC the mega music fan has come swooping in to gobble up the points 🤣👀.

Re: O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

Mi-Amigo — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:26:18 GMT

W18 - B18 DO THEY KNOW ITS CHRISTMAS - Band Aid No 1 Xmas 1984 [original version/release]

Re: O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

pgn — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:27:15 GMT

And @RafaC lines-up @lewys-gp Bonus Point, and slams another one into the net, with bonus - that one is one of the tricky ones too:

Re: O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

Cleoriff — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:30:22 GMT

20A -20W

HE AINT HEAVY, HE'S MY BROTHER/ THE HOLLIES 1969

Re: O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

pgn — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:29:34 GMT

@Mi-Amigo wrote:

@pgn wrote:
And @Mi-Amigo gets in there first - but an extra letter has crept in somewhere - check it out for your point!

Should be
V1 - V14 SOMETHIN STUPID [no G] by Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman No 1 Xmas 2001

Got it, @Mi-Amigo - a point for the song and artist, and a bonus for the year are yours, well done!

2001 Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman SomethinStupid

Don't Give Up Now Though 😎

Re: O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

RafaC — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:30:52 GMT

@lewys-gp 😂
@pgn 🙌

14F to 14P - Saviour's Day by Cliff Richard, 1990

Re: O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

pgn — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:32:29 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
20A -20W
HE AINT HEAVY, HE'S MY BROTHER/ THE HOLLIES 1969

Right title and place @Cleoriff , but not the right artist for the Christmas #1 - have another shot!

Re: O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

Cleoriff — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:33:54 GMT

14F- 14P SAVIOURS DAY CLIFF RICHARD 1990

Re: O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

lewys-gp — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:36:54 GMT

A16 - R16, "It's Only Make Believe", by Conway Twitty, in... 1955.

Love the song, just don't know the exact year 😂