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

[pgn]

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 )

[lewys-gp]

Here we go!

[Mi-Amigo]

Brilliant @pgn 

Here goes

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

[pgn]

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

[lewys-gp]

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

The year is a complete guess, sorry 🤔.

[TallTrees]

@pgn 

No good at this

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

[pgn]

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

[pgn]

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

[RafaC]

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.

[Mi-Amigo]

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@pgn wrote:

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

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Should be

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