4768 attempts on 14-4 and I have crawled up to 77th. How the hell did I ever manage 3rd place?

This 1971 album is one of the biggest sellers of all time, and another artist peak.

Deep Purple released Fireball in 1971. Again, at the peak of their (considerable) powers. They were the first group that weaned me off chart pop, much to my parent’s dismay I would imagine.

Squeaked my way through @hunnybunny with a couple of 6s. I got PARER wrong but nothing since so streak is over 750. At least one person is over 1000 though. I don’t play hard mode*, which helps. However, even in easy mode up to half the players were bombing out on CORER.

*In hard mode, once you get a letter correct you must stick with it thus…[Read more]

Love Bang a Gong, hate Tiny Dancer

1971 OK, 1972 much better…

Dan, did you get them all? I failed miserably on lots of -0-er, -a-ed, et al…

Anyway, happily chugging along by myself, feeling a bit like a DJ in the small hours. Back to 1971, who’s next. Who’s Next in fact. Townshend at the peak of his powers.

Free drinks and food for anyone kicking their way through the tumbleweed.

After months and months of effort, where my total has been teetering on 97, 98, 99, 98, 99, 98 and 99 (sabotaged by @brianN on at least one occasion) my ABO/Classics haul of trophies has finally reached 100. Out of 699 levels. I can say this now and allow myself to be shot…[Read more]

Bedlam in the Wordle World this week. First we had GAMUT which had some people frothing at the mouth and being extremely abusive because “it was a word they had never heard of and was therefore unfair”.  Oh you poor things! But far worse was CORER which sent the same sort of ignorant idiots into full-blown insane meltdown. Being the third hardest…[Read more]

Linking back to the first song and to the pianist. Some people rank this as his best ever song, from Madman Across The Water 1971.