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Welcome to the first in our occasional series of brain busting time wasting quizzing activities. How many of The Idle Race's Birthday Party guests can you name. Take a look and enter the number of faces you can identify in the comments box below. The highest number wins. No cheating now.

 40 Years ago this was at number 18 Click Here to view the full Top 40 Album Chart from this week in 1974 Chart supplied by The Official Charts Company http://www.officialcharts.com/ We'd love you to leave us your suggestions for future selections using the comments box below.

Straight in at number 1 this week Best Seller from Record Store Day 2014. Listen to the album in full by clicking here: Pixies - Indie Cindy Preview Check out the full Top 40 Vinyl Album Chart  for the Week Ending April 26th 2014 by clicking on this link The Official Record Store Chart is a weekly music chart based on physical sales of albums in almost 100 independent record stores in the United Kingdom, such as Rough Trade, Rounder Records, Jumbo and Sound It Out.[1][2] It is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), and each week's number one is...

Ian Ravendale belongs to a secret society of immortals patiently waiting for a man on a flaming pie to fly through his window. He lives in a Gothic mansion that he shares with 6,000 albums, 3,000 books and magazines at least half of which are about music and 10,000 comics none of which are about music, particularly the dreadful Marvel mag with Kiss in it. He's been writing about music since before his last regeneration for Sounds, Kerrang, Classic Rock, Vive Le Rock, AOR, The Word, Record Collector, Fireworks. Classic Pop, Iron Fist and American Songwriter but his Mam says...

If this is the answer, what was the question?         Listen to the answer Kate gives in this clip from our exclusive archive interview from 1979. Guess what the question was to win a signed copy of Gered Mankowitz's latest  book "50 Years of Rock and Roll Photography", which features many of the photos of Kate used in the video along with many other iconic images including 10CC, ABC, AC/DC, Agnetha Faltskog, The Bravery, Chrissie Hynde, Duran Duran, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Eurythmics, Free, George Harrison, The Hives, The Jam, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Jett, Kim Wilde, Led Zeppelin, Leonard Cohen,...