Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

brilliant ......... your turn

[Anna]

your turn

Initially I thought it might be Wolfgang and Wolf (as in Hugo!!)

OK, here is, I think, a fairly easy one. One word answer found in and common to all three.

What X is poetic, a fictional estate, and a person who probably took a trip from Liverpool to see the Stars?

[rubbernecker]

Initially I thought it might be Wolfgang and Wolf (as in Hugo!!)

OK, here is, I think, a fairly easy one. One word answer found in and common to all three.

What X is poetic, a fictional estate, and a person who probably took a trip from Liverpool to see the Stars?

Xanadu ?

(Coleridge - Citizen Kane - the film/musical)

[Anna]

Xanadu ?

(Coleridge - Citizen Kane - the film/musical)

Well done! Coleridge the poem, the fictional estate of Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane. Any idea of the third one just to round it off?

[Norfolk Born]

Is it Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Titch?

[Anna]

Is it Dave Dee Dozy Mick and Titch?

No! I'll give the answer. It was Frankie goes to Hollywood (person from Liverpool taking a trip to see the (movie) Stars and of course the song was Welcome to the Pleasure Dome which is based on the poem Xanadu and also mentions shooting stars in the lyrics.

Two other things with Xanadu in the title are the film starring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly and the very succcessful musical with music written by Jeff Lynne, normally known for prog rock or as a Travelling Willbury. The poem would have been longer of course if Coleridge had not been distracted by that gentleman from Porlock.

So rubbra has the Y and I feel I need to sit out the next few puzzles as I have been on this thread far too much lately.

[rubbernecker]

What Y links a deceased Romanian chanteuse, a Cleveland-based instrumentalist, and the title of a film starring a dancer named after a battle?

[mercia]

dare I ask what year our chanteuse died, or is that a clue too far?

[rubbernecker]

dare I ask what year our chanteuse died, or is that a clue too far?

It was within the last twenty years

[rubbernecker]

For the avoidance of doubt it is the dancer who is named after the battle, not the film

[Norfolk Born]

So rubbra has the Y and I feel I need to sit out the next few puzzles as I have been on this thread far too much lately.

That goes for me, too! I'll probably 'sign on' again when we reach, say, 'E' or 'F'.

[antongould]

dare I ask what year our chanteuse died, or is that a clue too far?

To go really too far is the Y one of her names?

[rubbernecker]

To go really too far is the Y one of her names?

Yes, it is one of her names, and since it's been nearly 24 hours since the last activity perhaps some further assistance would be welcome:

She starred regularly at the Bucharest opera before she moved to the USA in the late sixties. She specialised in French chansons (which is how I first encountered her in my teen years). There are variants on the spelling of her name.

The instrumentalist has a Greek surname and is one of the world's foremost players of this instrument, having recorded more than 15 albums of classical repertoire.

The dancer, deceased, was a well-known star of stage and screen. The dancer's family name is that of a famous battle, but it was changed to the stage name in 1905. The film in question was a box-office flop.

There, that should prove to be a suitable aperient...

[Nick Armstrong]

a suitable aperient...

Cheers, I'll have a large gin martini, dry with a twist, thanks!

:biggin: erm, I mean

[antongould]

Yolanda??