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Rounds

The first round of the show has varied over the series. Some of the rounds featured are:

• Album Covers, where two members of a team must create a tableau of an album cover for the other guest to guess such as Nirvana's Nevermind.
• Connections, where each team must work out the unlikely connection between two musicians (eg. the connection between Jay-Z and Frederic Chopin - they both have their own brands of vodka). Formerly known as Connected.
• Sorry, No Refunds, where each team must guess the real reason, out of three given, why a musical act cancelled a gig.
• Indecipherable Lyrics, where each team must work out the real lyrics to a song, with, as the title implies, near-unintelligible lyrics. This round often leads to bizarre interpretations of lyrics, far removed from their original meaning. An example of this came when Michael Jackson's "They Don't Care About Us" was transformed into a paean to canine pornography, with the alternate title "They Don't Care About Crufts"
• Band Names, a round where the teams are asked to give the origins of the name of a musical act.
• Freeze Frame, where each team is shown a music video, and the action is paused half-way. It's up to the teams to guess what happens next. Examples include Bruce Springsteen's video for "Dancing in the Dark" when he plucked an unknown Courteney Cox from the audience, and the AC/DC video "Big Gun" where school uniform-wearing guitarist Angus Young kicks a cap into the air which is picked up by Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose clothing turns into that of Young's, as he takes on the guitar solo.
• Word Up, where each team is given a lesser-known word in a song and are asked what that word means. Examples include Colitas in The Eagles song "Hotel California", or Beltane in T. Rex's "Ride a White Swan".
• I Fought the Law, where each team is shown a pop act, and have to guess how they fell foul of the law, from three possible choices. When they have chosen their answer, they are told the actual answer, and for a bonus point, they have to guess who came out on top on that occasion. Examples include when The Clash were arrested, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in the 1970s, for stealing pillowcases from a hotel, and Shaun Ryder, of the Happy Mondays, was arrested after crashing his car into a vicar's Lada and driving off.
• Inspector Rock, similar to "I Fought the Law", where each team has to decide how a certain object got an artist/band in trouble with the police. Examples included Courtney Love and some plumbing, Marilyn Manson and his genitals and Peter Buck of R.E.M. and a pot of yogurt.
• Do You Know Who I Am?, where the teams are shown a clip of a band, and they have to guess which, of three possible answers, was an outrageous backstage demand of said artists. Examples are ZZ Top's livestock on their 1976 world tour, Janet Jackson insisting on new black toilet seats being installed wherever she tours and Roger Daltrey of The Who insisting on a pint of Häagen-Dazs ice-cream to be placed on stage at regular intervals.
• Mama Said 'Knock You Out', a new round introduced in 2006, where the teams are shown two artists and asked for the reason behind a feud between them, out of three options. One example is a feud between So Solid Crew and Westlife over a BRIT Award.
• What Have We Pixellated?, a new round introduced in 2006, where the teams are shown a music video each, where a portion of the video has been pixellated in a compromising situation, and they have to work out what is behind the digital blur. One example is of Shakira's La Tortura where the scene in which she is chopping onions on her lap was pixellated.
• Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?, a new round introduced in 2007, where teams have to guess which of 3 items mentioned injured a particular music artist.

One-off mini-rounds were played throughout the 2006 Autumn season as jokes, all characterised by the same silly jingle. These rounds are:

• Beaver Or Diva?, in which the teams are shown a close-up photo of some hair and are asked if it is the fur of a beaver or the hair of a diva. The third one, intended as a phonetic joke, was property guru Naomi Cleaver.
• Who Is Lily Saying This About?, played when Lily Allen appeared on the show, where the teams are told what Lily said about other artists, and had to guess who she was talking about. However, one of the sentences was said by Jamelia, another guest on the same show.
• Is This Person One Of David Gest's Showbusiness Friends?, played when David Gest appeared on the Christmas 2006 Bumper Edition of the show, where the teams are given a celebrity's name and have to guess whether or not they are friends of David Gest.
• Dennis or Davro?, played when Bobby Davro appeared in the 21st series. The teams were given quotes from either Bobby Davro, or Les Dennis, and had to guess who said the quote.
• How Much Does Robyn Care About Christopher Biggins' Showbusiness Lifestyle?, played when Robyn and Christopher Biggins appeared in the 21st series. The round consisted of Bill Bailey buzzing and saying "a bit".

The second round is the Intros round, where each team is given two or three songs, that two of the team must orally convey the intro (or in one case the instrumental section) of, without using lyrics or words, so their team-mate can guess. If the teammate does not guess the correct song, the question is passed on to the other team. On occasion (usually Christmas episodes), this round has been performed with actual musical instruments, usually bizarre ones, or with guest acts conveying the song intros to the teams. This round is one of the few to have survived the show from inception. The third round is the Identity Parade, where each team is given the name of a musician, and must spot him or her in a line-up of (usually) five individuals. The models are always introduced in order, and all but the first introduced will generally be described by a partial oronym of the target's name. Most of the time, the individuals could plausibly be the musician named, but there have been some notable exceptions:

• In a 1999 episode, Lamarr joined the line-up with Bob Cotton of 50s revival rockers The Jets, due to the quiffs. Sean Hughes quipped that the rest of the line-up were dressed like the Fonz from Happy Days, but Lamarr was dressed as Mr. Cunningham. Inevitably, Hughes' team incorrectly picked Lamarr.
• A semi-regular member of the line-up is a black man named Athelston Williams (gaining a credit at the end of an episode in 2000), who never seems to blink or show facial expression. He is present regardless of the appearance of the hidden musician. He was once included in a lineup for The Nolan Sisters. On another occasion, Jupitus walked up to him, fell to his knees and demanded "What do you want from us?". One week, when he wasn't available, an Athelston lookalike was brought in. He was a regular in the series with guest presenters as the drummer for the pub band in the sketches played under the closing credits (once again immobile).
• Another semi-regular, during 2004, was a man dressed as a pirate holding a sword up, who, in his first appearance, was forced to drop his sword when Lamarr and all of Phill's team walked out and stared him down, until he dropped it. His repeat appearances in the show sometimes resulted in all of the line-up, except the artist themselves, appearing dressed up in pirate clothing, including, on one occasion, Athelston. Athelston Williams is a model for Ugly/Rage Modelling.
• A new regular during the current season is the psychotic looking, curly-haired Ealing based comedian Phil Zimmerman, wearing overalls. No matter what happens, he keeps staring at the team that's playing. Bailey once compared him to a mutant from the horror film Wrong Turn. Amstell has walked up to him both times he has appeared so far. At the first appearance, Amstell tried to move the model's arms and head, but couldn't, because they were "a bit stiff". All that would move was the model's hair. The second time, Amstell put Donny Tourette's glasses on the man, grabbed his arms, and made him do the hand gestures Tourette had "showed off" earlier. At the end of the round, the man walked off stage with his arms still in the position.

Occasionally, other games involving a 'line-up' are played in place of the Identity Parade, including:

• Dress You Up, only played twice in 2001, where the teams each get a model dressed in five items of popstars' bizarre items of clothing, and have to guess which item of clothing belongs to who. For example - one model wore a hat like Badly Drawn Boy, an oversized jacket like David Byrne of Talking Heads, a Volkswagen medallion like Beastie Boys, a mini-moustache like Ron Mael of Sparks and a Union Flag dress like Geri Haliwell.
• Dance Craze, only played once in 2001, where the teams are shown three dances to completely different music, and have to guess what moves they are. Moves included Prince Charming as portrayed by Adam and the Ants, The Twist by Chubby Checker and Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus.
• Biggie to Smalls, played once in 2006 and again in 2007, in which the teams have to put four celebrities into the correct order from biggest to smallest — the exact criteria varying with the question. For example, the first was to put Flavor Flav, Pete Doherty, Courtney Love and Pete Burns into the correct order of the times they had spent in prison, from shortest to longest. The other was to put Melanie Brown, Kenny Rogers, Britney Spears and Mick Jagger in the order of their respective divorce settlements. In this round, all celebrities were represented by people dressed up to more or less look like the real celebrity in a well-known and/or slightly ridiculous outfit. The name of this round is a pun on the name of rapper Biggie Smalls.

The final round is Next Lines round, where each team is given a lyric from a song, and must give the following lyric. Each team must attempt to give as many following lyrics as they can, within a time limit. A regular feature of this round is a guest musician on either team being given lyrics from their own songs, and invariably getting the next line wrong. However, when this trick was sprung upon Guy McKnight, the 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster singer not only recognized his own work but pointed out an error in the lyrics quoted to him by the host. (presumably an error on the question cards). He received a point for his efforts. Also on Mark Lamarr's last episode, Robert King and Sumon Sanyal (of X-Factor infamy) performed the next lines.