MM Links April 2011 [Week 3]

middlestump | 07:45 Sat 16th Apr 2011 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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For the third time (only two more to go!) I bid “Good Morning” to all MM Linkers. This is “The Count” (aka middlestump) wondering what records I can set/break this week. I suspect that crofter must have some regrets about my ennoblement.

To follow on from Croquet and Cricket, the theme this week is Music. My father was a multi-instrumentalist semi-professional performer. When I was 7, he left me with no choice – I was going to learn the violin (it’s a long story). How I remember those painful early days and that’s just a recollection of the hurt that I inflicted on myself (and others)! It’s unimaginable just what unearthly sounds can emanate from any decent instrument at the hands of an unskilled young learner. However, I studied the instrument for 11 years and along the way, taught myself how to play the viola and bass guitar. I also developed a decent-enough tenor voice.

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Forty years on and I just collect and enjoy listening to music. The internet is a wonderful vehicle enabling me to discover artists from all over the world, many of whom I would never have heard of if it hadn’t for the web. My tastes are truly eclectic – from Adele to the Zac Brown Band via Alison Krauss, Borodin, Ella Fitzgerald, Fairport Convention to name but a few. However I was a child of the 60s – a period which I loved, only to fall out of love with that decade! Needless to say this change in mood was only temporary, as I learned to appreciate just how rich and revolutionary the popular music scene was. No one can ignore the influence that The Beatles had on so many musicians over the last 50 years.

According to normal practice, for the everyday running of MM, I will follow the usual rule on word length as introduced by crofter. Each of my pre-selected link words contains at least four letters and at most eight letters. Stray outside this range and you will be wasting one of your attempts! Each of my selected link words may go in front or behind my challenge word! The competition will officially close on Sunday Evening at 7.00pm, when crofter will declare my pre-selected words and then apply the same rules for awarding points that have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past.

My third set of four words to have their links predicted should appear below at 9.00am.

tearinghair

Ahhh, Fairport Convention! I remember listening to Dave Swarbrick in awe at the Sidmouth Folk festival in the mid-60s - brilliant!

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I, The Count, challenge you to predict my link words based on the sixth studio album of:

“The Fab Four”

RUBBER

SOUL

SERGEANT

PEPPER

Good Luck, everyone!