Pop Quiz

[richardwoods]

You could always try contacting Mike Read at United DJ’s & ask for his recollections

[markg]

Jul 5, 2020 11:57:06 GMT robinore said:

Thanks Simon.

Question: does anyone else have a memory of this episode, and can they confirm or deny that it was Mickie Most who got into a disagreement with Mike Read on Pop Quiz (22 May 82) about The Beatles 1st #1 record? (Please Please Me vs. From Me To You) It was a bit of a dust-up at the time, in the social media of the day, ha.

Or was it someone else on a different episode of Pop Quiz?

Cheers...

I did contact Mike Read about summat else on Twitter, he did reply me. (I had tried other channels).

[Simon B Kelly]

Jul 5, 2020 11:57:06 GMT robinore said:

Question: does anyone else have a memory of this episode, and can they confirm or deny that it was Mickie Most who got into a disagreement with Mike Read on Pop Quiz (22 May 82) about The Beatles 1st #1 record? (Please Please Me vs. From Me To You) It was a bit of a dust-up at the time, in the social media of the day, ha.

Or was it someone else on a different episode of Pop Quiz?

Cheers...

It wasn't Mickie Most as I've just watched that episode and The Beatles don't even get a namecheck in it! However, I have tracked down the clip you're after, which has actually been available online for years so I'm surprised no-one else noticed it before. It's a clip from the very first episode of Pop Quiz:



Mike Read: "And over to the end of Round 5, Chris Neil, watch this clip of The Beatles and then I'm going to ask you a question..."
Pathe News colour clip of The Beatles performing She Loves You in Manchester, 1963, plays.
Mike Read: "She Loves You was their second Number 1. What was their first Number 1?"
Chris Neil: "Please Please Me".
Mike Read: "No, it wasn't. Some might say it was, but it technically wasn't - it only got to Number 2. Their first Number 1 was From Me To You."

The Official Charts website also show Please Please Me as only reaching Number 2 as they've used the same data as the Guinness books...

[mattchurchett]

Jul 5, 2020 11:57:06 GMT robinore said:

Thanks Simon.

Question: does anyone else have a memory of this episode, and can they confirm or deny that it was Mickie Most who got into a disagreement with Mike Read on Pop Quiz (22 May 82) about The Beatles 1st #1 record? (Please Please Me vs. From Me To You) It was a bit of a dust-up at the time, in the social media of the day, ha.

Or was it someone else on a different episode of Pop Quiz?

Cheers...

I've just flicked through this episode.

Mike Read asks Mickie Most a question about Elvis Presleys 1st Number 1 in Britain. Mickie incorrectly answers with Jailhouse Rock. Correct answer was All Shook Up.

He's then asked what year it was released, he correctly answers 1957.

No disagreement, no drama. As Simon has pointed out, it was another contestant on another episode. Could be your mind playing tricks after all these years!

[Thomas Walsh]

Oh good God WHO CARES if Mickie Most showed most of his Mickie. Please end this idiotic nothingness.

[mattchurchett]

Is anyone interested in detailing the clips used in the episodes that haven’t been catalogued so far?

I messaged Simon offering my copies of the episodes. (Not a trade, before anyone pipes up) But haven’t heard back from him