Friday Rock Show Wiki
Register
Advertisement

A list of the puzzles and their solutions for this year.

January[]

  1. Nico: 'All That Is My Own' (LP-Desertshore)
  2. John Cale: 'Heartbreak Hotel' (LP-Slow Dazzle)
  3. Lou Reed: 'Rock n Roll' (LP-Rock and Roll Animal)
Connection: Velvet Underground
  1. Steve Hackett: 'Racing In A' (LP-Please Don't Touch)
  2. ELO: 'Illusions In G Major' (LP-Eldorado)
  3. Brand X: 'And So To F' (LP-Product)
Connection: musical keys.
  1. Peter Gabriel: 'On The Air (LP-Peter Gabriel 2 (Scratch))' (Charisma)
  2. Steve Hillage: 'Radio (LP-Motivation Radio)' (Virgin)
  3. Montrose: 'Space Station No. 5 (LP-Montrose)' (Warner Bros.) [1]
Connection: radio
  1. Scorpions: 'Loving You Sunday Morning (LP-Lovedrive)' (Harvest)
  2. Genesis: 'Dusk (LP-Trespass)' (Charisma)
  3. Led Zeppelin: 'In The Evening (LP-In Through The Out Door)' (Swan Song)
Connection: times of day

February[]

  • 01 February 1980
  1. Nils Lofgren: 'Keith Don't Go (Ode To The Glimmer Twin) (LP-Nils Lofgren)' (A&M)
  2. Pink Floyd: 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond (LP-Wish You Were Here)' (Harvest)
  3. John Lennon: 'How Do You Sleep? (LP-Imagine)' (Apple)
Connection: other people in the music business (Keith Richard, Syd Barrett, Paul McCartney)
  1. Janis Joplin: 'Me And Bobby McGee (LP-Pearl)' (CBS)
  2. Canned Heat: 'On The Road Again (LP-Boogie With Canned Heat)' (Liberty)
  3. Jimi Hendrix Experience: 'All Along The Watchtower (2xLP-Electric Ladyland)' (Track Record)
Connections: (1) all acts played at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967; and (2) deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Alan Wilson in 1970
  1. Genesis: 'Snowbound' (LP-And Then There Were Three)
  2. Led Zeppelin: 'Immigrant Song' (LP-Led Zeppelin III)
  3. Santana: 'Toussaint L'Overture' (LP-Santana III)
Connection: three
Show not in archive.
  • 29 February 1980
  1. Spooky Tooth: 'Better By You Better Than Me'
  2. Gary Wright: 'Dream Weaver'
  3. Only Ones: 'Curtains For You'
Connection: Mike Kelly (drummer for Only Ones) was a member of Spooky Tooth as was Gary Wright

March[]

  1. MC5: 'Kick Out The Jams' (LP-Kick Out The Jams)
  2. Ted Nugent: 'Stormtroopin' (LP-Ted Nugent)
  3. David Bowie: 'Panic In Detroit' (LP-Aladdin Sane)
Connection: Detroit
  1. Joni Mitchell: 'Edith And The King Pin' (LP-Hissing Of Summer Lawns)
  2. Sid Vicious: 'Something Else' (LP-Sid Sings)
  3. Uriah Heep: 'Free and Easy' (LP-Innocent Victim)
Connection: Captain Beaky!! Hissing Sid is Innocent.
  1. Jack Bruce: 'How's Tricks' (LP-How's Tricks)
  2. Baker Gurvitz Army: 'Mad Jack' (LP-Baker Gurvitz Army)
  3. Eric Clapton: 'Cocaine' (LP-Slowhand)
Connection: Cream
  1. Steely Dan: 'Night By Night' (LP-Pretzel Logic)
  2. Bonzo Dog Band: 'My Pink Half Of The Drainpipe' (LP-Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse)
  3. Jeff Beck: 'Goodbye Pork Pie Hat' (LP-Wired)
Connection: Food

April[]

  1. Manfred Mann's Earth Band: 'Blinded By The Light' (LP-Roaring Silence)
  2. Patti Smith: 'Because The Night' (LP-Easter)
  3. Bruce Springsteen: '4th Of July, Asbury Park' (LP-The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle)
Connection: All three tracks were written by Bruce Springsteen.
  1. Bob Dylan: 'Lay Lady Lay' (LP-Nashville Skyline)
  2. Television: 'Venus' (LP-Marquee Moon)
  3. Rainbow: 'Tarot Woman' (LP-Rainbow Rising)
Connection: London venues. Nashville / Marquee / Rainbow
  1. Eagles: 'Wasted Time (Reprise)' (LP-Hotel California)
  2. James Gang: 'Funk #49' (LP-James Gang Rides Again)
  3. Joe Walsh: 'Pavanne' (LP-So What)
Connection: Joe Walsh

May[]

  1. Grand Funk Railroad: 'Are You Ready' (LP-Live Album)
  2. Procol Harum: 'Toujours L'amour' (LP-Grand Hotel)
  3. Styx: 'The Grand Illusion' (LP-The Grand Illusion)
Connection: Grand
  1. Jimi Hendrix: 'Dolly Dagger' (LP-Rainbow Bridge) Reprise
  2. Eagles: 'Hotel California' (LP-Hotel California) Asylum
  3. Stray: 'Suicide' (LP-Suicide) Transatlantic
Connection: Gruesome Weapons; Daggers, Guns, Knives
No connection this week as show is Flashback 1969.
  1. Pink Floyd: 'Have A Cigar' (LP-Wish You Were Here) Harvest
  2. Genesis: 'Supper's Ready - The Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man' (LP-Foxtrot) Charisma
  3. Roy Harper: 'Cherishing The Lonesome' (LP-Bullinamingvase) Harvest
Connection: Harvest; Record Label, Lyrics
  1. Led Zeppelin: 'Royal Orleans' (LP-Presence)
  2. Thunderclap Newman: 'Something In The Air'
  3. Tangerine Dream: 'Cloudburst Flight' (LP-Force Majeure)
Connection: Royal Air Force

June[]

  1. Styx: 'Renegade' (LP-Pieces Of Eight)
  2. Genesis: 'Fountain Of Salmacis' (LP-Nursery Cryme)
  3. Cream: 'Tales Of Brave Ulysses' (LP-Disraeli Gears)
Connection: Greek mythology
  1. Blue Oyster Cult: 'ME262' (LP-Secret Treaties)
  2. Neil Young: 'Like A Hurricane' (LP-American Stars And Bars)
  3. Jefferson Starship: 'Big City' (LP-Spitfire)
Connection: war planes
  1. Lynyrd Skynyrd: 'Saturday Night Special' (LP-One More For The Road)
  2. Elton John: 'Saturday Nights Alright For Fighting' (LP-Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)
  3. AC/DC: 'Touch Too Much' (LP-Highway To Hell)
Connection: Highways, Roads
  1. Rush: 'Beneath Between and Behind (LP-Fly By Night)' (Mercury)
  2. Van Halen: 'Running With The Devil (LP-Van Halen)' (Warner Bros.)
  3. Uriah Heep: 'Firefly (LP-Firefly)' (Bronze)
Connection: Lee - Geddy Lee, David Lee Roth and Lee Kerslake

July[]

No connection this week as Tommy is going on holiday for a few weeks.
No connection. Genesis live at Lyceum, London.
No connection. Ian Gillan guest DJ.
No connection. Repeat of Roger Waters special about The Wall.

August[]

  1. Yes: 'Parallels' (LP-Going For The One)
  2. Deep Purple: 'Smoke On The Water' (LP-Machine Head)
  3. Krokus: 'Heatstrokes' (LP-Metal Rendez-vous)
Connection: Switzerland. Going For The One recorded in Montreux; Smoke On The Water lyrics reference Montreux and Swiss Time; Krokus are a Swiss based band.
  1. Leon Russell: 'Delta Lady' (LP-Best Of)
  2. UFO: 'Alpha Centauri' (LP-No Place To Run)
  3. Gamma: 'Fight To The Finish' (LP-Gamma)
Connection: Greek letters.
  1. Lone Star: 'Bells Of Berlin' (LP-Firing On All Six)
  2. Mike Oldield: 'Tubular Bells' (LP-Tubular Bells)
  3. Thin Lizzy: 'Whiskey In The Jar' (7” Single)
Connection: Bell - Eric Bell guitarist of Thin Lizzy
  1. King Crimson: '21st Century Schitzoid Man' (LP-In The Court Of The Crimson King)
  2. The Beatles: 'When I'm Sixty Four' (LP-Sgt Pepper)
  3. Deep Purple: 'A200' (LP-Burn)
Connection: 21 + 200 + 64 = 285 - Radio One wavelength
  1. Jimi Hendrix: 'Gypsy Eyes' (LP-Electric Ladyland)
  2. Black Sabbath: 'Planet Caravan' (LP-Paranoid)
  3. Rory Gallagher: 'Souped Up Ford' (LP-Against The Grain)
Connection: All three guitarists are left handed. (Oh no they aren't, Rory is right handed. The mistake is spotted during the week and Tommy sets his own connection next week.)

September[]

  1. Boston: 'Smokin' (LP-Boston)
  2. Television: 'Friction' (LP-Marquee Moon)
  3. The Cars: 'Moving In Stereo' (LP-The Cars)
Connection: Each track is from the band's debut album.
  1. Rush: 'Cinderella Man' (LP-A Farewell To Kings)
  2. Motorhead: 'Dead Men Tell No Tales' (LP-Bomber)
  3. Mahogany Rush: 'Broken Heart Blues' (LP-World Anthem)
Connection: All three bands are trios
  1. April Wine: 'I Like To Rock' (LP-Monsters of Rock compilation)
  2. Beatles: 'All You Need Is Love' (single)
  3. Blue Oyster Cult: 'Marshal Plan' (LP-Cultösaurus Erectus)
Connection: Each song has a little bit of another song in it.
  1. Molly Hatchet: 'Boogie No More' (LP-Flirtin With Disaster)
  2. Alice Cooper: 'Billion Dollar Babies' (LP-Billion Dollar babies)
  3. Thin Lizzy: 'Whiskey In The Jar' (7” Single)
Connection: Girls names.

October[]

  1. Eric Clapton: 'Bottle Of Wine' (LP-Eric Clapton)
  2. Eagles: 'Tequila Sunrise' (LP-Desperado)
  3. Lynyrd Skynyrd: 'Whiskey Rock-A-Roller' (LP-Nuthin' Fancy)
Connection: Booze.
  1. Pink Floyd: 'Careful With That Axe Eugene' (LP-Ummagumma)
  2. Wishbone Ash: 'Throw Down The Sword' (LP-Live Dates)
  3. Dire Straits: 'Six Blade Knife' (LP-Dire Straits)
Connection: Blades.
  1. Joe Walsh: 'Rocky Mountain Way' (LP-The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get)
  2. Curved Air: 'Vivaldi' (LP-Air Conditioning)
  3. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: 'Ohio' (LP-4 Way Street)
Connection: Way
  1. Aphrodite's Child: 'The Four Horsemen' (LP-666) (Vertigo)
  2. The Who: 'Love Reign O'er Me' (LP-Quadrophenia) (Track)
  3. Black Sabbath: 'Wheels Of Confusion' (LP-Black Sabbath Vol 4) (Vertigo)
Connection: four
No connection this week due to "Flashback 70"

November[]

  1. UFO: Rock Bottom (LP-Phenomenon)' (Chrysalis)
  2. Pink Floyd: 'Another Brick in the Wall (2xLP-The Wall)' (Harvest)
  3. Motorhead: 'Stone Dead for Ever (LP-Bomber)' (Bronze)
Connection: Building materials (Rock, Brick & Stone)
  • 14 November 1980
No connection this week as it was the 2nd Birthday Show called Twos up.
  1. Jethro Tull: 'Fylingdale Flyer (LP-A)' (Chrysalis)
  2. Pink Floyd: 'Young Lust (2xLP-The Wall)' (Harvest)
  3. Love: 'The Red Telephone (LP-Forever Changes)' (Elektra)
Connection: telephone (lyrics, end of track, title)
  1. Roger Daltrey: 'Free Me (LP-McVicar)' (Polydor)
  2. Alan Parsons Project: 'Breakdown (LP-I Robot)' (Arista)
  3. Judas Priest: 'The Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown) (LP-Unleashed in The East (Live In Japan))' (CBS)
Connection: men of the cloth (Vicar/Parson/Priest)

December[]

  1. Joe Walsh: 'Turn To Stone (LP-So Far So Good)' (ABC)
  2. Iron Maiden: 'Remember Tomorrow (LP-Iron Maiden)' (EMI)
  3. Manfred Mann's Earth Band: 'Angels At My Gate (LP-Angel Station)' (Bronze)
Connection: Stone Age, Iron Age, Bronze Age (label name)
  1. Van Halen: 'Ice Cream Man (LP-Van Halen)' (Warner Bros.)
  2. Rush: 'By-Tor & The Snow Dog (LP-Fly By Night)' (Mercury)
  3. Johnny Winter: 'Pick Up On My Mojo (LP-John Dawson Winter III)' (Blue Sky)
Connection: ice, snow, winter
  1. Outlaws: 'Green Grass & High Tides (LP-The Outlaws)' (Arista)
  2. Eagles: 'Certain Kind of Fool (LP-Desperado)' (Asylum)
  3. James Gang: 'Walk Away (LP-Live In Concert)' (Probe)
Connection: bad men of the West
No connection this week, repeat of Genesis live at The Lyceum
Footnotes
  1. 'Bad Motor Scooter' played by mistake, but correct track announced by TV.
Advertisement