Bad haircuts
Scott asked listeners about haircuts that had gone badly wrong.
Phil argued that the difference between a bad haircut and a good haircut was around two weeks.
David remembered a barber accidentally cutting his ear on Friday the 13th.
Nigel used clippers at home and asked his wife to tidy the back. She said it looked fine, but a photograph later revealed otherwise.
Matt grew up during the 1980s streaking trend and expected the same impressive highlights as his brother.
A new foil technique instead left him looking like a skunk. School friends called him Skunky for the rest of his secondary education.
A parent cutting a three-year-old’s fringe during lockdown discovered that every attempt to straighten it made the result shorter and more like Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber.
Jo Whiley sent Scott an old school photograph featuring what he described as one of the best fringes he had ever seen, although he refused to publish it without her permission.
The Birthday Game: Mel
Mel lived in North Wales but came originally from Aberdeen.
She turned 64 during what dog-show enthusiasts called Cruftsmas Week.
Mel owned whippets and planned to attend Crufts, where two of the dogs would compete among around 400 whippets.
She shared her birthday with Bryan Cranston, Rachel Weisz, Wanda Sykes and Ernie Isley.
Her first spin was Kylie Minogue’s I Should Be So Lucky, number one in 1988. Mel rejected it.
The second was Tinie Tempah’s Pass Out, number one in 2010. She rejected that too.
Her compulsory final song was Beats International featuring Lindy Layton’s Dub Be Good to Me, number one in 1990.
Mel called it the best of the three and promised to report back on the whippets after Crufts.
Emergency Music Police
Scott reopened Claire’s case after listeners overwhelmingly rejected his Kylie Minogue answer from the previous day.
He called Claire out of a meeting and apologised for being so confident.
Inspector Ross from Chester suggested Holly Johnson’s Love Train.
Claire recognised it immediately.
The song had reached number four in 1989 and fitted her memory of listening to records from her brother Johnny’s bedroom.
Scott admitted he had jumped to musical conclusions and played the track.
Listeners also informed him that Brian May had played the guitar solo.
Songs that reference later songs
A listener pointed out that Cher sang “strong enough” in Believe before releasing a song called Strong Enough.
Other examples included Kylie Minogue referring to the world “spinning around” in In Your Eyes and Britney Spears revisiting the loneliness lyric from …Baby One More Time in Stronger.
Scott also noted that Bon Jovi returned to Tommy and Gina from Livin’ on a Prayer in It’s My Life.
Handover
Scott handed over to Sara Cox after promising to return to Simon’s whistled Music Police mystery on Thursday.
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