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Inside the new album cover you will see these shelves, but filled with a variety of objects. Listen to the album, read the lyrics and decide which objects belong to which tracks. Use the pull-down menus to make your Natural Selection!
Thanks to all who entered
Competition now closed. The winners are 1st - Gordon Bazzana (got them ALL correct) - Kelowna 2nd - Brian Wilson - 3rd - Colin Bryce - Dallas
The answers -
A - 11. Last Farewell (a famous brooch from the Titanic)
B - 3. In the Beginning (ahhh, Adam and Eve)
C - 2. After the Mission (a broken arrow was the official USAF code word for a 'missing' nuclear weapon)
D - 4. Natural selection (a Stag beetle, associated with Darwin's studies)
E - 1. Flame of Blue (it's a blue lighter)
F - 9. The Forum ('dreaming dreams of millions of cars')
G - 4. Natural selection (another Darwin bug)
H - 4. Natural selection (another Darwin bug)
I - 11. Last Farewell (these are fish knives from the Titanic, the song being about one person's experience of that fateful night)
J - 1. Flame of Blue (moon - 'moonshine and Mayberry...' and the corn brooch - 'will you drink with me good fellow, the essence of the corn')
K - 7. Falling Tide ('we gather the shells there washes ahore')
L - 8. Little Light (Fanny Lou Hamer's famous radio broadcast and the cotton sharecropping past)
M - 10. Said and Done (song is about how we viewed the future as kids and how it turned out)
N - 10. Said and Done (once again, a vision of the future..especially from the eyes of a young boy)
O - 4. Natural Selection (a pocket sextant, very similar to that used by Darwin aboard the Beagle)
P - 7. Falling Tide (once again 'we gather the shells there washes ahore')
Q - 5. Lover's Harmony (simply a serenade to my lovely wife as depicted by heart engraved guitar)
R - 2. After the Mission (wonderful photo of B29 bomber as flown by the airman telling the story)
S - 2. After the Mission (the b29 bomber in the story in jewellery form)
T - 6. Man in Front of Me (this is a photo of the man in the story)
U - 6. Man in Front of Me (yep, the guy left his wife and kids to start a new life in...Australia)
V - 3. In the Beginning ("surfing in the new beginning, here for you and me")
W - 11. Last Farewell (a White Star Line' pin. WSL was the operator of the Titanic)
X - 11. Last Farewell ("stars I've never seen before")
Y - 4. Natural selection (another Darwin bug)
Z - 1. Flame of Blue (Speedy, the Alka-Seltzer mascot referring to the perpetual hangover of the 1st verse in the song)
Prizes:
1st Prize - One of Guy's original Dire Straits Platinum Disks
2nd Prize - Guy's Diesel Dire Straits Tour Jacket from 1992 (hardly worn)
3rd Prize - A Poster from the 2005 tour signed by the current band
COMPETITION CLUES -
Box Z
contains 'Speedy'.
Used by the Alka-Seltzer company from 1953 to 1964, this mascot is associated with a hangover. There's only one song on the album which refers to a hangover in verse one. (only six people have got this answer correct so far)
Trivia - The most famous commercial jingle sung by speedy Alka-Seltzer aired: “Down, down, down the stomach through Round, round, round the system too, With Alka-Seltzer you’re sure to say, Relief is just a swallow away.” Interestingly, one Alka-Seltzer ad, the voice of Marvin Miller is heard. Mr. Miller was also the voice of Robbie the Robot in the Forbidden planet.
Box W
contains a White Star Line pin brooch.
The White Star Line was the operator of the Titanic.
Box N
Gerry Anderson's very own Thunderbird 2 and Stingray. Toys from childhood. From the eyes of a young boy, to me these machines represented an incredible vision of the future.
Box I
These are fish knives, note the logo
