Solution will be posted Saturday morning, folks.

@Bombay Airconditioning has got there with sheer persistence.  We now have seven solvers.

Reveal around 11am for anybody still wondering.

Nothing to do with this topic, but one of the players has been a naughty boy this off season. Not going to elaborate.

31 minutes ago, Matt said:

Nothing to do with this topic, but one of the players has been a naughty boy this off season. Not going to elaborate.

Who, Charlie Watts? I mean, Jack Watts.

1 minute ago, Mazer Rackham said:

Who, Charlie Watts? I mean, Jack Watts.

And I thought MY clues were too obvious 

 

1 hour ago, Mazer Rackham said:

Who, Charlie Watts?

Is that a drum roll I hear?  Charlie's good tonight, inee?

Yes thrillseekers, the surnames of all the players in my team can be found in the title of songs my favourite band The Rolling Stones have recorded at some point in their very long career (61 years and counting).

I got the idea for this teaser from @Timothy Reddan-A'Blew who devised one some time back using Beatles songs.

Here are all the clues/hints/signposts in order of appearance:

• Post #3 - "Congratulations" is a song the Stones recorded.
• Peter Light - "Shine A Light" is a Stones song and also an excellent doco made by Martin Scorsese.
• Pictorial clue - This caused a lot of confusion.  It was a reference to my avatar .... Keith Richards.
• Mick doesn't collect the green stuff - A Rolling Stone gathers no moss.  This is what helped @WalkingCivilWar .
• WCW's clue was "gimme" (shelter)
• This may be the last time you can participate - another Stones song.
• Demonstone - it's obvious, isn't it?
• longshot listener / loneliest throngs / singleton holster - all anagrams of The Rolling Stones.

Onto the team then, with the relevant songs listed in team order.  (Some surnames match more than one song.)

B:        I'm Free     Sparks Will Fly     Ain't Too Proud To Beg

H/B:    Short And Curlies     Dear Doctor     Heart Of Stone

C:        Long Long While     Paint It, Black     Wild Horses

H/F:    Love Is Strong     Brown Sugar     Jumpin' Jack Flash

F:        Good Times, Bad Times     I'm A King Bee      Cook Cook Blues

R:        Street Fighting Man     Miss Amanda Jones     The Under Assistant West Coast Promo Man

I/C:     Waiting On A Friend     Shine A Light     Sweet Black Angel     Little Red Rooster

So that's it.  My well is dry, the arsenal is empty, there is no more ammunition, I am bereft of inspiration, the creative juices have dried up and I have run out of ideas.  Thank you to everybody who participated in some or all of the 26 brainteasers I have posted over the journey and I trust you will recover from the ordeal and return to mental wellness soon.

What better way to close this thread than this classic from 1964?  Good things happened that year!

 

 

Edited February 18, 20232 yr by Demonstone

('Longshot listener / loneliest throngs / singleton holster - all anagrams of The Rolling Stones' Yours, @Demonstone? 👏)

I take heart that, as the full title goes, 'this may be the last time'. So, from my bias,

https://www.google.com/search?q=get+back+beatles+youtube&oq=get+back+beatles+youtube&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i512j0i22i30i625l2j0i22i30j0i10i22i30j0i22i30l2.9174j0j4&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f269b487,vid:rG860QcseTI

👏 @Bombay Airconditioning and @Allus Monk. Persistence Rules!

Never heard anyone ever use Jones -jones in this context same as you never hear the word felicity either.

Sth Yarra library has a dictionary that covers every english word since about the 18th century. The vast majority of words are never or seldom used. Trump became POTUS with a vocabulary of only a few hundred words. Has never read a book apparently. All his Trump books were written by ghost writers.

America's biggest con man.

4 minutes ago, Deebauched said:

Never heard anyone ever use Jones -jones in this context same as you never hear the word felicity either.

Sth Yarra library has a dictionary that covers every english word since about the 18th century. The vast majority of words are never or seldom used. Trump became POTUS with a vocabulary of only a few hundred words. Has never read a book apparently. All his Trump books were written by ghost writers.

America's biggest con man.

Probably apocryphal, but Frank Sinatra reputedly said, on being presented with a book as a gift, 'What do I want a book for? I've already read one!'

3 minutes ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

Probably apocryphal, but Frank Sinatra reputedly said, on being presented with a book as a gift, 'What do I want a book for? I've already read one!'

I bet the only book he read was a biography about ol blue eyes. 

15 minutes ago, Deebauched said:

you never hear the word felicity either.

Well, this is felicitous!

Fittingly for a music related teaser, here is a song called 'Felicity', recorded in the early 80s by Scottish indie band Orange Juice.

 

Their singer Edwyn Collins later became well known for his hit song 'A Girl Like You' from 1994.

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

👏 @Bombay Airconditioning and @Allus Monk. Persistence Rules!

It does, I had a few wrong attempts….

My initial take on the Avatar clue was a bow. Then I was thinking they’re blue, they fly and they were protecting their planet from being mined. So I had Blue Sky Mine, Midnight Oil, then Jayden SHORT Memories and Max KING of the mountain. The trail then went cold…. 

2 hours ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

('Longshot listener / loneliest throngs / singleton holster - all anagrams of The Rolling Stones' Yours, @Demonstone? 👏)

I take heart that, as the full title goes, 'this may be the last time'. So, from my bias,

https://www.google.com/search?q=get+back+beatles+youtube&oq=get+back+beatles+youtube&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i512j0i22i30i625l2j0i22i30j0i10i22i30j0i22i30l2.9174j0j4&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f269b487,vid:rG860QcseTI

Oh, and by the way, @Demonstone, I'm prepared to hold the fort - or at least toss it around a bit - while you're on what we hope is just a (well-earned) sabbatical.

3 hours ago, Mazer Rackham said:

Who, Charlie Watts? I mean, Jack Watts.

We're not talking about the same thing

2 hours ago, Demonstone said:

 

Yes thrillseekers, the surnames of all the players in my team can be found in the title of songs my favourite band The Rolling Stones have recorded at some point in their very long career (61 years and counting).

 

I need to reassess my life. 😳

39 minutes ago, Matt said:

We're not talking about the same thing

You might not be, but I am.