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Sound system maestro gets stuck into some serious ploughing in the land of the rising sun! (5, 4)

C'mon chaps...how many recording artists/musicians do you know that have the same (sur)name as a famous stereo sound system?

Well just put him together with a Nipponic like-minded chap and get them to work together ... possibly using a combine 'arvester!*


*possible homage to The Wurzels intended

You blinded me with science Membs but my wind powereed intuition got me there !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v_Nyrxm7Jg

Speaking of the summer of '77 Ivan (or anyone else out there 'midst the tumbleweed), a certain Mr Solberg wasn't exactly going for gold with this one, but he did eventually make it to the top, come the fall.

Song title: (6, 4)

Obviously the first bit is Silver
Unfortunately it is not this Mr Kilminster doing vocals for The Hawklords and the lovely Stacia showing Bez how to dance proper !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdTFeW8FCto

Nay, your Tardis landed a few years too early there Squire and wonderfully off-genre.

Obviously you're not as au fait with TV-cops-cum-singer-songwriters as I thought!

Au contraire Membs mon vieux. my specialist subject on Mastermind would be " Crap Chart toppers by crap actors in crap 70's Dectective Series "
I hereby rest my case with the following evidence m'lud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J94-_w9ARX0

Nice try but again not quite on the mark. You've got one more chance, baby.

Top clue: Think about *Sol*-berg.

Gotcha You're a Star /(sky) Membs
Apparently as his middle name is Robert he wanted to incorporate it as an initial in his stage name Luckily his agent was on the ball "Yeez Dave, David R Sole , I'm getting very bad vibes about this even if it does perfectly reflect the Zeitgeist "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pGN-YYiqXI

Spot on Ives (at last) .. and not a Starsky in sight. A bit of dodgy Radio One DJ/TOTO presenter at the beginning of that clip, but moving swiftly on....


Still in the summer of '77, these ueber-homeless don't mince their words in asking for even a small donation!

Song title: (4, 1, 6, 3)