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Christmas Quizzes 2018–2019

Solution of the Day : 31 December



7 I


Longest track from an album (contemporaneous with Exotic Birds and Fruit) released by an ex-member of Procol Harum (who joined in 1967), and produced by a different ex-member (who joined in 1967): ‘this cat is nine’, allegedly.

Exotic Birds was released in 1974, likewise Trower's Fisher-produced Bridge of Sighs. Additional clue in the the following question, of course.

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7 x L
 


7 S


Occurring on the PH album that Rolling Stone rated ‘at its worst … both surprisingly mediocre and trivial’, this is the track with a melody ‘gorgeous enough to have been written by a Bee Gee’.

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12 x o
 


7 T


‘Girl’, ‘stranger’, ‘daughter’, ‘nothing’, ‘burning’, ‘thoughts’, ‘weeping’ – the first of these words is heard on the first track of a particular Procol album, the second on the second, the third on the third, the fourth on the fourth, the fifth on the fifth, the sixth on the sixth, and (predictably enough) the seventh on the seventh; your simple task is to name the eighth song in this sequence.

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10 x g
 

The letter-pairs started in positions 7, 10 and 12 in each song-title, and were therefore li, gs, to, ms, ro, gr, in, gs, ri

The one letter-pair that appears twice is 'gs'

 


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