Alphabet Associations - III

[crb11]

If so we might be looking at Blue: Elton John had an album "Blue Moves" as well as a single "I guess that's why they call it the Blues", and Bartok wrote Bluebeard's Castle. Eric Clapton played in the band John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers (except we know it isn't Eric Clapton...)

[LMcD]

If so we might be looking at Blue: Elton John had an album "Blue Moves" as well as a single "I guess that's why they call it the Blues", and Bartok wrote Bluebeard's Castle. Eric Clapton played in the band John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers (except we know it isn't Eric Clapton...)

Reginald Dixon Blue Tango?

[cloughie]

Trawling the responses yields the following correct answers:

Reg is Elton John
Bela is Bartok

Blue is the answer so Bluebeard is Bela’s link

That leaves what I had in mind for Reg for the name of his first band - and indeed the names of two members whose first names give us his new name.

Also no one has given me the Eric I had in mind and their Blue.

[Petrushka]

Trawling the responses yields the following correct answers:

Reg is Elton John
Bela is Bartok

Blue is the answer so Bluebeard is Bela’s link

That leaves what I had in mind for Reg for the name of his first band - and indeed the names of two members whose first names give us his new name.

Also no one has given me the Eric I had in mind and their Blue.

Has Eric Coates been ruled out? He wrote a couple of songs, Blue Bells and Blue Sky and White Road.

[french frank]

That leaves what I had in mind for Reg for the name of his first band - and indeed the names of two members whose first names give us his new name.

Also no one has given me the Eric I had in mind and their Blue.

Elton John's band was Bluesology. (Two members were Elton Dean and Long John Baldry).

[AuntDaisy]

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Also no one has given me the Eric I had in mind and their Blue.

How about Eric Bloom & Blue Öyster Cult?

[cloughie]

Elton John's band was Bluesology. (Two members were Elton Dean and Long John Baldry).

Correct

That Just leaves one Mindbending Eric.

[LMcD]

Correct

That Just leaves one Mindbending Eric.

Eric Stewart?

(Just out of interest - what happens if 3 different people each provide one-third of the solution?)

[AuntDaisy]

Eric Stewart?

(Just out of interest - what happens if 3 different people each provide one-third of the solution?)

The wisdom of Solomon decrees they be trisected...

[cloughie]

The wisdom of Solomon decrees they be trisected...

There are four parts in the coleslaw Reg Dwight, Bela Bartok, Eric Stewart and BLUE.

[french frank]

So a kimchi might be:

1. vinteuil was first to identify Reg as Elton (John)

2. crb11 got Bartók, Bluebeard's Castle and Blue as the B (but the wrong Blue for Elton)

3. I got Bluesology, but only after cloughie said Reg's Blue was the name of his first band, so I found that on wiki

4. LMcD got the Mindbending Eric as Eric Stewart, co-founder of the Mindbenders - but what is the Blue for him?

[crb11]

I'll go for it (I seem to have got two of the four). What C links a legendary Mahler recording and two female musicians who both died in their early 40s, one to disease and one in an accident.

[cloughie]

So a kimchi might be:

1. vinteuil was first to identify Reg as Elton (John)

2. crb11 got Bartók, Bluebeard's Castle and Blue as the B (but the wrong Blue for Elton)

3. I got Bluesology, but only after cloughie said Reg's Blue was the name of his first band, so I found that on wiki

4. LMcD got the Mindbending Eric as Eric Stewart, co-founder of the Mindbenders - but what is the Blue for him?

Just for clarification the Eric’s BLUE was ‘Blue Guitar’ a hit single which featured Moody Blues members Justin Hayward on Guitar, John Lodge on Bass Guitar and 10cc guitarist Eric Stewart. I believe it was recorded at 10cc’s Strawberry Studio.

[LMcD]

I'll go for it (I seem to have got two of the four). What C links a legendary Mahler recording and two female musicians who both died in their early 40s, one to disease and one in an accident.

Mischa Maisky arranged the Adagietto from Mahler's 5th symphony for cello and harp, and cellist Jacqueline du Pre died aged 42. Phyllis Kraeuter, another cellist, was killed in a car accident, but was 58. Patsy Cline (who wasn't a cellist as far as I know) died in an air accident at the age of 41, and there's a cello solo in Willie Nelson's Crazy (Patsy Cline)

[crb11]

Jaqueline du Pre is the musician who died from disease, and the other musician died at the age of 41. Progress, but that's your lot for now.