Solution: The British Invasion
Answer: DECK ROOF
Written by Kenny Young
In this puzzle, “the British Invasion” is the letter U, which gets itself into words like “honoured”. Each of these albums includes a track with a word that can have a letter U added to it to make a word matching one of the clues at the bottom of the puzzle. Many of these artists have multiple songs that have this property, but the specific albums provided have only one.
| Artist | Track | Clue | New word |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Taylor | You’ve Got a Friend | Disease | GOUT |
| John Barry | James Bond Theme | Jump | BOUND |
| Paula Abdul | Cold Hearted | Auxiliary verb | COULD |
| Steely Dan | Rikki Don’t Lose That Number | Insect | LOUSE |
| Talking Heads | Once in a Lifetime | Unit of weight | OUNCE |
| Billy Joel | Big Shot | Loud noise | SHOUT |
| Lionel Richie | Penny Lover | One of many in a window treatment | LOUVER |
| Poison | Every Rose has its Thorn | Wake up | ROUSE |
From here, you can shift the first letter of each new word by the provided amount. [It’s also reasonable to try shifting the track numbers, but the -12 for the Poison track goes negative and knocks out that approach.]
| New word | Shift | Letter |
|---|---|---|
| GOUT | -3 | D |
| BOUND | +3 | E |
| COULD | +0 | C |
| LOUSE | -1 | K |
| OUNCE | +3 | R |
| SHOUT | -4 | O |
| LOUVER | +3 | O |
| ROUSE | -12 | F |
This spells out the answer DECK ROOF.