Riding the pig.

These 4 along with two others will lead you to 3 people in entertainment. Explain.

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Cracked by woenvu, Kartik, NitishK, Mrinalini, VarunG & CATD <who basically is punishing me for my bad clue >

Answer: Twiggy + Richard Ramirez = Twiggy Ramirez. Ginger Rogers + Albert Fish = Ginger Fish. Missing: Marilyn Monroe + Charles Manson = Marilyn Manson. Stage names of band members of Marilyn Manson.

Teen Spirit.

(1) is has been in the midst of some celebration for sometime now. The box set (2), and the merchandise (3) are sort of part of that celebration.

Name the music group and put id for all. For bonus points, name the guy you see on the merchandise.

Cracked by Nishanth raman, VarunG, NitishK & Woenvu.,

Answer:  Artist: Pixies  and quoting Nishanth “1. – Doolittle 2. – Minotaur 3. – Death To The Pixies Merchandise . Bonus Question – Iconic early Pixies image of a slumped over Black Francis.”

By any other, would smell as sweet.

I’ll have the usual: Identify , explain and connect.

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Champakali, Ankit Sethi & Nitish Khadiya!

Answer: Laila aur Majnu. 1. George Harrison and Patti Boyd – Clapton wrote the song Layla for Patti. 2.  aaja nachle – the dance drama in the movie is laila majnu 3.  Laila Majnu – the movie starring Rishi Kapoor and Ranjeeta Kaur 4. A painting depicting Laila and Majnu

Show business was the beginning.

1 is the single that was released a week back. 2, the album, was released yesterday. Identify both and the band.

Cracked by Deepak, VSK, Sohan, Chamapakali & Manish Achuth.

Answer: Muse‘s latest album – Resistance , and their single Uprising.

Identify and Connect.

Attempted & cracked only by Sohan. Kudos!!

Answer:  The song – “I like to move it” . Originally by Reel 2 Real (Erick Morillo), covered by Sacha Cohen (Madagascar) and will.i.am (Madagascar 2)

Home sweet home, for some.

Simple one, I think.

Connect the guy standing with the Bachchan family to this video

Cracked by everyone!!

Answer: Radhu Dixit & the film on Shishunala Sharif. Some of Dixit’s songs like Gudugudiya Sedi Nodo, & Soruthihudu Maneya Maaligi were written by the poet Sharif.

Yumm it is.

Identify and connect all.

Cracked by Manish Achuth & Champakali.

Answer: Jambalaya is the answer. 1. Hank Williams who wrote the song 2. Usha Utthup also covered it 3. Jambalaya the dish 4. The Carpenters who had a famous hit with this single.

Simply identify / connect.

Cracked by Kaustuba & Aditya R.

Answer: Album Covers of Kings of Leon’s Only By The Night. The 1st is the UK cover. 2nd is the Rorschach image – American cover,

Why so serious?

Connect all.

Clue : A – Cover of a famous single.

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B C

Cracked by Pod!!!

Answer: The first is the single by Wolfmother called “the Joker & the Thief“. All along the watchtower is the obvious connect between Dylan & Hendrix. The Joker and the Thief are two charscters from the song All Along the Watchtower.

Towards the Moon

This is arguably the world’s first what?

Went uncracked. Harish was the only one to attempt the question and came quite close. The creator is George Mathen, the author of Moonward, however this is one of his earlier works that claims to be the world’s first graphic band biography [whatever that means] for a Bangalore/Bengaluru based band called Lounge Piranha. You can read it here.