Pointless is the best entertainment show out there -Part 3: Central African Reboomlic

Meangadh

Yo!

Gene Pitney (good ole Burt Bacharach classic!)
Bastille
x
Beach boys
U2
x

Welsh Megaman

Max Bygraves, bottom?

:O

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The cold dead look in Matt's eyes as Sam said Snow Patrol.

rainbowtrout

Snow Patrol? I didn't think it was possible not to have heard of Bastille. It was everywhere last year.

Welsh Megaman

Didn't B.B. King guest on 'Rattle And Hum' (When Love Comes To Town)?

Or was Richard joking?

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I find virtual farming as a hobby a lot more respectable than egg throwing.

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Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Didn't B.B. King guest on 'Rattle And Hum' (When Love Comes To Town)?

Or was Richard joking?

I think he was joking?

Didn't they sing with Mary J Blige recently too?

Meangadh

I realise the irony of this as I type playing along with a TV game show... but flippin Farmville, who the hell has the time for that craic?!

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The Police
Katy Perry
Queen ?
Whoa oh oh oh oh
x
Tony Christie

Welsh Megaman

Sting
Katy Perry
Beatles
Dionne Warwick
Four Tops
Tony Christie

rainbowtrout

Sting
?
Beatles
Dionne Warwick
Four Tops
Tony Christie

Meangadh

The Police
x
x
Dionne Warwick (more Burt Bacharach!)
The Four Tops
Neil Sedaka

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Samantha's face! Her eyes nearly popped out of her head.

coylemj

Back in the USSR can't be 1976, it was on the Beatles White Album in 1968

Mars Bar

Sting
Katy Perry (love that song!)
The Beatles
?
Four Tops
Tony Christie

Welsh Megaman

coylemj wrote: »

Back in the USSR can't be 1976, it was on the Beatles White Album in 1968

Was thinking that too, unless it was released as a single

rainbowtrout

coylemj wrote: »

Back in the USSR can't be 1976, it was on the Beatles White Album in 1968

True. Don't remember anyone else covering it though.

coylemj

Going loco - Ricky Martin?

rainbowtrout

coylemj wrote: »

Going loco - Ricky Martin?

Four Tops, it was used in the film Buster which was released at the time.

coylemj

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Was thinking that too, unless it was released as a single

+1

"Back in the U.S.S.R." was released by Parlophone as a single in the UK in 1976

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_in_the_U.S.S.R.

Mars Bar

Haven't a clue!

Welsh Megaman

Linford Christie
Carl Lewis
Colin Jackson
Flo Jo

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Sally Pearson
Ashton Eaton

Sonia O'Sullivan
Yelena Isibyeneva

rainbowtrout

Jonathan Edwards
Jackie Joyner
Michael Johnson
Jan Zelezny
Haile Gebreselassie

Meangadh

Not a notion!

Usain Bolt?

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Christophe Lamaitre

rainbowtrout

Usain Bolt, but it's completely obvious.

Welsh Megaman

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Christophe Lamaitre

LaBOOMtre!

rainbowtrout

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Jonathan Edwards
Jackie Joyner
Michael Johnson
Jan Zelezny
Haile Gebreselassie

Jackie Joyner Ker-BOOM!!!

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I am loving the questions so far today!