The first of eight programmes with Mike Read How much do you know about rock 'n' roll and pop music? Can you identify the stars - past and present-from clips of their performances? See if you can do as well as the studio teams of celebrities from the world of pop. They'll be answering questions based on music and the performers, charts, writers and composers of singles and albums since 1955. Tonight's teams: Paul Jones of The Blues Band David Grant, lead singer with Linx Chris Neil, record producer against Roger Taylor, drummer with Queen Suzi Quatro, who topped the charts with ' Can the can' and ' Devil gate drive ' Cozy Powell, another of Britain's leading drummers

Tonight's teams: Rick Wakeman , keyboard wizard Mike Berry , singer and actor John Peel , Radio 1 DJ against Tim Rice , Superstar lyricist Billy Currie of Ultravox and Visage Clem Burke , drummer with Blondie

tonight's teams are: Dave Edmunds, guitarist/ composer/producer Jake Burns , STIFF LITTLE FINGERS lead vocalist Robert Plant , singer with the legendary LED ZEPPELIN against Graham Gouldman , whose writing credits include hits for The Yard-birds, The Hollies and 10cc. Bev Bevan , drummer with ELO Helen Shapiro , who topped the charts, aged 14, in 1961, and who was recently in London's West End as Nancy in Oliver.

Tonight's teams: Jonathan King, singer, producer and Radio 1's Man in New York Noddy Holder of SLADE Syd Little of LITTLE AND LARGE against Roy Wood of WIZZARD Pauline Black, formerly with the SELECTER, now a solo artist. Eddie Large, the larger half of LITTLE AND LARGE

Tonight's teams: Russ Ballard Errol Brown Lynsey de Paul Paul Gambaccini Chas Hodges Alvin Stardust

Tonight's teams: Phil Lynott of THIN LIZZY Paul Nicholas , actor and singer Gary Tibbs of roxy music and ADAM AND THE ANTS against Chas Chandler , manager and producer Hazel O'Connor , actress and singer Nicky Tesco Of THE MEMBERS

Tonight's teams: Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Midge Ure, vocalist and guitarist with Ultravox, Ian Gillan, ex-Deep Purple, now fronting his own band Gillan, against Phil Collins, ex-child actor, now drummer and vocalist with Genesis and a solo artist, Elkie Brooks, once with Vinegar Joe, now a solo artist, Barry Mason, composer of many million-selling hits.

Tonight's teams: Paul Jones of MANFRED MANN and THE BLUES BAND Hank B. Marvin , lead guitarist With THE SHADOWS Bill Wyman of the ROLLING STONES against Tim Rice , lyricist and co-author of The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles Toyah Willcox , actress and singer B. A. Robertson , writer and performer

How many of this year's Number One hits can you remember? What was the Christmas hit the year Princess Anne was married? Which song kept Greg Lake's I believe in Father Christmas out of the No 1 slot at Christmas 1975? David Grant Rick Parfitt Cliff Richard v Barry Gibb Midge Ure Paula Yates