Ken Bruce

Popmaster is now back to normal scoring rules.

Today's questions included: "[names of all the Sex Pistols} were in which band?"

Three in Ten was the Stranglers; yesterday's was REM. I was able to complete these on time.

Did anyone hear J Vine trying to imitate K Bruce yesterday? In itself that was not good, but the bit where they talked over the intro of 'Hotel California' was.

The other day KB played a song by The Sands (??). It was generic Lennonesque pop and I liked it a lot.

Monday, 5 January 2003

Title: 'BLACK EYED BOY'
Artist: TEXAS
Album: HITS ZONE - THE BEST OF 97 (VARIOUS)
Label: POLYGRAM TV

Title: 'I WON'T CHANGE YOU'
Artist: SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR
Single: CD SINGLE
Label: POLYDOR

Title: 'ST ELMO'S FIRE (MAN IN MOTION)'
Artist: JOHN PARR
Album: NOW 1985 - THE MILLENNIUM SERIES
Label: EMI

Title: 'TUMBLING DICE'
Artist: THE ROLLING STONES
Album: THE ROLLING STONES - FORTY LICKS
Label: ABKCO

Album of the Week:
Title: 'DAY AFTER DAY'
Artist: THE BEN TAYLOR BAND
Album: FAMOUS AMONG THE BARNS
Label: IRIS RECORDS

Title: 'SEVEN WONDERS'
Artist: FLEETWOOD MAC
Album: THE VERY BEST OF FLEETWOOD MAC
Label: WARNER STRATEGIC MARKETI

Title: 'TOO BUSY THINKING 'BOUT MY BABY'
Artist: MARVIN GAYE
Album: SOUL (VARIOUS ARTISTS)
Label: POLYGRAM TV

Title: 'A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION'
Artist: ELVIS PRESLEY
Album: (CD SINGLE)
Label: BMG/RCA

Title: 'AFRICA'
Artist: TOTO
Album: THE ALL TIME GREATEST ROCK SONGS ..
Label: COLUMBIA

Record of the Week:
Title: 'THIS LOVE'
Artist: LEANN RIMES
Single: CD SINGLE
Label: CURB

Title: 'KISSING A FOOL'
Artist: GEORGE MICHAEL
Album: GEORGE MICHAEL - LADIES & GENTLEMEN
Label: EPIC

Title: 'COMPLICATED'
Artist: AVRIL LAVIGNE
Album: AVRIL LAVIGNE - LET GO
Label: ARISTA

Title: 'I'M ON STANDBY'
Artist: GRANDADDY
Album: (CD SINGLE)
Label: V2 RECORDS

Title: 'BABY PLEASE DON'T GO'
Artist: THEM
Album: THE GREATEST HITS OF 1965
Label: PREMIER

Title: 'BRAND NEW FRIEND'
Artist: LLOYD COLE
Album: LLOYD COLE - THE COLLECTION
Label: POLYGRAM TV

Title: 'BREATHE AGAIN'
Artist: TONI BRAXTON
Album: (CD SINGLE)
Label: ARISTA

Title: 'REAL'
Artist: PLUMB
Single: CD SINGLE
Label: CURB

Title: 'FEMALE OF THE SPECIES'
Artist: SPACE
Album: CRUSH (VARIOUS ARTISTS)
Label: POLYGRAM TV

Gold Album of the Week:
Title: 'DECEMBER '63 (OH WHAT A NIGHT)'
Artist: THE FOUR SEASONS
Album: I LOVE TO PARTY 2004
Label: VIRGIN

Title: 'I LOVE TO BOOGIE'
Artist: T.REX
Album: CHOICE TRAX VOL. 25
Label: POLYDOR

Title: 'EVERYBODY CRIES (RADIO EDIT)'
Artist: LIBERTY X
Album: (CD SINGLE)
Label: V2 RECORDS

Title: 'HAVE A NICE DAY'
Artist: STEREOPHONICS
Album: NOW 49 (VARIOUS ARTISTS)
Label: NOW

Title: 'FELL IN LOVE WITH A BOY'
Artist: JOSS STONE
Single: SINGLE
Label: VIRGIN

Title: 'THE WHOLE OF THE MOON'
Artist: THE WATERBOYS
Album: NOW 1991 - THE MILLENNIUM SERIES
Label: EMI

Title: 'A HARD RAIN'S GONNA FALL'
Artist: BRYAN FERRY
Album: BRYAN FERRY/ROXY MUSIC - STREET LIFE
Label: EG

Tracks Of My Years chosen by Joan Baez
Title: 'MAN COMES AROUND'
Artist: JOHNNY CASH
Album: AMERICAN IV: THE MAN COMES AROUND
Label: LOST HIGHWAY RECORDS

Title: 'PERFECT SENSE (PART 1)'
Artist: ROGER WATERS
Album: AMUSED TO DEATH
Label: COLUMBIA

Title: 'TOO LOST IN YOU (RADIO EDIT)'
Artist: SUGABABES
Album: (CD SINGLE)
Label: UNIVERSAL

Title: 'DON'T WALK AWAY'
Artist: THE FOUR TOPS
Album: THE FOUR TOPS - THE SINGLES
Label: POLYGRAM TV

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He played Lloyd Cole!!

Title: 'FORGET ME NOTS'
Artist: PATRICE RUSHEN
Album: BEST DISCO ALBUM IN THE WORLD...EVER
Label: VIRGIN

Title: 'DO YOU REALIZE??'
Artist: THE FLAMING LIPS
Album: (CD SINGLE)
Label: WARNER BROS

Title: 'LADIES NIGHT'
Artist: ATOMIC KITTEN FEATURING KOOL & THE GANG
Album: (CD SINGLE)
Label: INNOCENT/VIRGIN

Title: 'SHOUT'
Artist: TEARS FOR FEARS
Album: TEARS FOR FEARS - TEARS ROLL DOWN
Label: FONTANA

Album Of The Week
Title: 'ISLAND'
Artist: THE BEN TAYLOR BAND
Album: FAMOUS AMONG THE BARNS
Label: IRIS RECORDS

Title: 'BABY I LOVE U'
Artist: JENNIFER LOPEZ
Album: (CD SINGLE)
Label: EPIC

Title: 'CRUSH'
Artist: JENNIFER PAIGE
Album: WOMAN (VARIOUS ARTISTS)
Label: POLYGRAM TV/SONY TV

Title: 'HARVEST MOON'
Artist: NEIL YOUNG
Album: (CD SINGLE)
Label: REPRISE

Title: 'MAD WORLD'
Artist: MICHAEL FEATURING GARY JULES ANDREWS
Album: (CD SINGLE)
Label: SANCTUARY

Title: 'AGAINST ALL ODDS'
Artist: PHIL COLLINS
Album: PHIL COLLINS ...HITS
Label: VIRGIN

Gold Album Of The Week
Title: 'CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD'
Artist: KYLIE MINOGUE
Album: I LOVE 2 PARTY 2004
Label: VIRGIN

Title: 'WATCHING THE DETECTIVES'
Artist: ELVIS COSTELLO
Album: ELVIS COSTELLO & ATTRACTIONS
Label: IMP RECORDS

Title: 'I SAY NOTHING'
Artist: VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE
Album: VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE - LET IT BEE
Label: LONDON

Title: 'I FEEL LOVE'
Artist: DONNA SUMMER
Album: DONNA SUMMER - ON THE RADIO
Label: CASABLANCA

Title: 'DAYDREAM IN BLUE'
Artist: I MONSTER
Album: (CD SINGLE)
Label: INSTANT KARMA

Title: 'COMING AROUND'
Artist: TRAVIS
Album: (CD SINGLE)
Label: INDEPENDIENTE

Title: 'LET 'EM IN'
Artist: PAUL MCCARTNEY
Album: PAUL MCCARTNEY - ALL THE BEST
Label: PARLOPHONE

Title: 'DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY'
Artist: THELMA HOUSTON
Album: DANCING IN THE STREET (VARIOUS)
Label: UNIVERSAL MUSIC TV

Title: 'STOP!'
Artist: SAM BROWN
Album: WOMAN (VARIOUS ARTISTS)
Label: POLYGRAM TV/SONY TV

Title: 'HERE SHE COMES AGAIN'
Artist: THE STANDS
Album: (CD SINGLE)
Label: ECHO RECORDS

Title: 'I'M STILL STANDING'
Artist: ELTON JOHN
Album: ELTON JOHN GREATEST HITS 1970-2002
Label: MERCURY

Title: 'IT'S A MAN'S MAN'S MAN'S WORLD'
Artist: JAMES BROWN
Album: SOUL (VARIOUS ARTISTS)
Label: POLYGRAM TV

Title: 'THIS KISS'
Artist: FAITH HILL
Album: NEW HITS 99 (VARIOUS ARTISTS)
Label: GLOBAL TELEVISION

Title: 'ANIMAL - NEW EDIT'
Artist: R.E.M.
Album: (CD SINGLE)
Label: WARNER BROS

Title: 'WALKING ON THE MOON'
Artist: THE POLICE
Album: THE VERY BEST OF THE POLICE
Label: A&M

Tracks Of My Years chosen by Joan Baez
Title: 'CHRISTMAS IN WASHINGTON'
Artist: JOAN BAEZ
Album: DARK CHORDS ON A BIG GUITAR
Label: SANCTUARY RECORDS

Title: 'APRES UN REVE'
Artist: GINO QUILICO & ALAIN LEFEVRE
Album: LE SECRET
Label: KOCH

Record Of The Week
Title: 'THIS LOVE'
Artist: LEANN RIMES
Single: CD SINGLE
Label: CURB

Title: 'OH YOU PRETTY THINGS'
Artist: DAVID BOWIE
Album: DAVID BOWIE - BEST OF BOWIE
Label: EMI

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This shows that it was THE STANDS, with 'Here She Comes Again'.

It also shows where I heard Voice of the Beehive.

I wish I had not missed the McCartney, Bowie, Tears for Fears, Neil Young and Travis. I am quite surprised that I managed to miss that much radio.

More from Ken at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/bruce/

I didn't hear the final of Champions League Popmaster, but the rounds were reasonably easy, someone got 9 points just for recognising Young at Heart by the Bluebells.

Title: 'CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD'
Artist: KYLIE MINOGUE

Title: 'WATCHING THE DETECTIVES'
Artist: ELVIS COSTELLO

Title: 'I SAY NOTHING'
Artist: VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE

Title: 'I FEEL LOVE'
Artist: DONNA SUMMER

Title: 'DAYDREAM IN BLUE'
Artist: I MONSTER

This was the soundtrack to my car journey into Glasgow on Tuesday, and very nice it was too.

But many of the other questions were much harder.

He followed it with 'Live And Let Die'! I wish PJ Miller had heard it.

It's a helicopter repairman who lives in Lancashire. He drives to work on the new M6 toll-road. He used to be in the Navy. Married since 14.11.2003, to Amanda, an accountant in Chester. He lives in Chorley. He plays footy (leaky defence), reads a lot of books, has just started an OU degree. He likes the Thrills and Train, who KB says are 'well supported by R2'.

Which Bonus Questions to go for? DOUBLE TOP. Only 5 points to beat!

QUESTIONS

1. Bryan Adams. 3

2. Michelle MacManus - x.

3. Bonus: it was R Williams and N Kidman. 6 points

4. Genesis: hm, I don't know.

5. Which year? 1980 I'll go for. It was right!! 3

6. Wet Wet Wet - original singer: oh, it's Macca innit? No, RINGO!! No - sod it - Joe Cocker.

7. 1969 - hm, Brigitte Bardot? No, Sandie Shaw

8. FAB = Thunderbirds!! 3

9. Wonder Stuff: who wrote 'Dizzy'? PJ Proby? No: Tommy Roe

10. Lindisfarne? No it was GEORDIE.

He got 18 points. I score... 15. Not great.

Real Gone Ki,d Wages Day, Queen of the New Year, Your Town, Only Tender Loe

- that was how my answers came out. The band in question was... DEACON BLUE!!

Wow.

This is like my dream show. Kind of.

I wish I'd heard it too. I don't know about you, but I find that 'song title made out of words from different songs' quiz devillishly hard.

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions are reforming for two one-off shows. I read it in the paper.

Wee Ailsa, you missed out that the first round of Popmaster also included the question 'Who had a hit with "Real Gone Kid"?'!!!! To follow that up with the B&S one was just too much.

Miller is right, the other quiz is just too hard.

(Not a complaint: I don't want to listen to Londoners.)

See, the thing was Steady Mike standard.

Why so many Scots on Popmaster?

Please.

I've noticed that ladies don't do quite so well on Popmaster.

It's not wholly true about the ladies - not as much as you might think.

Thanks for listening.

If TRUCK DRIVERS don't know these things, who will?

It is funny that you remember that, when you don't listen to R2.

I wake up in time for Sarah Kennedy.

I suppose you were merely stating a fact, though, not actually saying that you listened to her. Maybe you wake up in time for her, then make a point of not listening to her.

That programme was probably a repeat of the one with Daniela Nardini reading Angela Carter and that lad from The Royle Family reading the Buzzcocks. Unless it is a different one. The one I am thinking of was actually called, 'With Great Pleasure'.

I should have known what that song was called, really, Porkpie, but alas, I did not, but now, thanks to you, I do.

Ken's contestants today were the worst ever! A nice lady who sang folk in the 1960s who scored 3, with Ken's help - and a dour fellow keen to say nothing (though he had rung a radio show) who scored ... 5. This is out of 39!

Then Ken played 'Layla'.

With Great Pleasure could be right. Anna Ford was also billed. To listen to it I would have had to switch off the music I was listening to.

I enjoyed Nardini on Balderdash and Piffle.

Those contestants sound awful!

It must be Dictionary Corner time soon.

It's Ken's birthday tomorrow!

That makes me realize - his birthday is the same as James Joyce's!

I can't believe the Ken Bruce thread has descended to this kind of flame war.

Happy birthday Ken Bruce!

He wasn't on Popmaster.

It is funny the way that N. likes the way that people present programmes, as long as they do it in his dreams.

What was Morley's unreadable novel, then? I want to know.

Ken is playing Billy Joel's song about the Italian restaurant - again! I have turned it off. Joel is such a HAM!

TERRY WOGAN (breakfast show, Monday to Friday) - £800,000

JONATHAN ROSS (Saturday morning show) - £530,000

MARK RADCLIFFE (weeknights at 10.30pm): £197,000

KEN BRUCE (mid-morning show Monday to Friday): £194,000

MICHAEL PARKINSON (Sunday Supplement): £115,000

JANICE LONG (midnight to 3am five days a week): £137,000

BOB HARRIS (three shows a week) : £96,000

CHRIS EVANS (drive-time show, Monday to Friday) - £540,000

STEVE WRIGHT (afternoon show, Monday to Friday) - £440,000

What a waste of money! I want my licnce fee back!

I wonder how much Craig Charles gets for his 6 Music funk show.

Love PJM's Carrington point.

I am struck by Radcliffe - such a blokeish man of the people, yet earning so many multiples what any of us do. I am slightly disenchanted, or whatever.

I think really Ken Bruce earns his money by being good at Popmaster and never getting in a muddle.

Were you not listening yesterday? Getting all his words mixed up, and he read out an answer instead of giving the question. It was just like when Richard Allinson sits in for him.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4986380.stm

Chortle chortle, etc.

!!!

Ken Bruce's first Popmaster contestant did terribly - only nine points! And one of the questions he got right was Timmy Mallet-related.

Now for contestant 2, from Walsall Wood.

I was disturbed by a phonecall during that second round, but I think he managed to do even worse than the first one, and then the first one got his 3 in 10 (Cyndi Lauper).

This thread revival is a roundabout way of telling you that I am lurching into cabin fever in my new role as stay-at-home dad.

Someone called "Deano" has just phoned in about the traffic.

Celebrity Popmaster!

Sophie Ellis Bexxxxtor vs Bev Something (not Bevan)!

It was Beverley Knight. They were both terrible. It is Celebrity Popmaster because they aren't allowed to do real Popmaster due to not being allowed to do phone-ins for prizes on teh Beeb.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6963842.stm

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article2784253.ece

BBC apologises for Sarah Kennedy's race gaffe
Sarah Kennedy shocked listeners by announcing that she could not see black men in the dark

Jack Malvern
Sarah Kennedy, the Radio 2 disc jockey, has been reprimanded after telling listeners she could not see black people in the dark.

The 57-year-old presenter, who has been admonished for making another racially insensitive gaffe in the past, made the remark while discussing the need for children to wear reflective clothing on their way to school so they can be seen by drivers.

“That’s not just children," she said. "You know what happened to me yesterday. It was this black guy. It’s lucky he opened his mouth to yawn or do something and I saw him. He was wearing a black hat, black clothes and he was just invisible.”

Her comments prompted a stream of protest from listeners on message boards. One complained: “This is just one in a long line of irresponsible remarks from Sarah Kennedy, but the BBC don’t have a problem with her.”

Another said: “I’m a great fan of Radio 2’s early morning programme, and teach radio as part of my job role. I’d be disgusted to play back those comments to students.”

A listener added: “OK in 1957 but not PC in 2007.”

Kennedy has previously opined that black men dominate athletics because they are accustomed to being pursued by lions.

A spokeswoman for the corporation apologised for the remark and said that the presenter had been "spoken to". Kennedy attracted an audience of 4.51 million in the third quarter of 2007 - 10,000 fewer than the same period last year.

Other visitors to message boards rallied to the disc jockey's defence. One wrote: “Leaving aside the fact she said ’until he opened his mouth’, she was making a point that too many pedestrians (and I include myself in that) wear dark clothing at night.”

Another said skin tone was relevant in the issue of seeing pedestrians in the dark, stating: “This is nothing to do with prejudice - it is a fact based on the science of light reflecting off objects.”

Kennedy prompted concern earlier this year after slurring her way through her show.

She mispronounced words and let sentences tail off in a rambling performance, which included offering to send some “panties” to soldiers in Afghanistan and referring to the Princess of Wales wearing a “pink polka blot” dress. She also said that the victim in the Phil Spector murder trial had had a "gunshot to the month". The BBC said a sore throat had caused breathing difficulties.

In 1999, she caused complaints when she described a clergyman as an "old prune" to his face and called her fellow DJ Ken Bruce an "old fool". She also accused a newsreader of soiling her underwear.

Other off-beam comments have included, a propos of nothing: "Fish and chips - again. It's me and the head of Radio 4, gob on a stick. I'll be having dinner tonight." Also, after playing a Boyzone record: "I need you, I need you! Can you mow? Have you a mower? Hee hee!"

ken bruce an old fool? you go too far madame..

Westlife were really rubbish on Celebrity Popmaster. I am sorry I missed Wogan on it yesterday.

Bonnie Wee P45Master morelike.

Simon Mayo is only 7 years younger than him? The push to attract slighter younger listeners continues!

Is this actually going to happen or is just contract shenanigans?

Goodness only knows. What's seven years when it comes to giving R2 listeners their morning dose of Travis and Athlete?