| PETEBIRRELL | Bass guitarist in the band Freddie and the Dreamers |
| LAURENLAVERNE | Desert Island Discs host who was the lead singer and guitarist in the band Kenickie (6,7) |
| DAVIDKOSSOFF | British actor who became an anti-drug campaigner after the death of his son Paul, guitarist in the band Free |
| GRECH | Ric ___, bass guitarist in the bands Family, Blind Faith, Ginger Baker's Air Force and Traffic |
| DONNIE | Doo-wop's ___ and the Dreamers |
| DREAMERS | Freddie and the ___, 1960s pop group (8) |
| FREDDIE | _ & The Dreamers (7) |
| STUCOOK | Bass guitarist in the rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| GLENMATLOCK | The original bass guitarist in the Sex Pistols (4,7) |
| PAULMCCARTNEY | Bass guitarist in The Beatles |
| PAUL | ___ McCartney musician who won the NME Awards for the best bass guitarist in 1974 and 1976 |
| MACKEY | Steve, late bass guitarist in Pulp who was also a record producer and fashion photographer (6) |
| DEACON | Bass guitarist in rock group Queen, John ------ (6) |
| PARGETER | Last name of Freddie and Lily, Elizabeth's twins in The Archers (8) |
| REDEEMER | Will save us reviewing the overnight phenomenon of The Dreamers - without the introduction it could be for The Birds (8) |
| CLOUDCUCKOOLAND | Storage facility in Switzerland perhaps is timely for the birds or for the dreamers in a fanciful place (5,6,4) |
| EDGE | The ___ , byname of David Evans, lead guitarist in the rock band U2 (4) |
| ARMSTRONG | Billie Joe _, singer and guitarist in the rock band Green Day (9) |
| ODE | O'Shaughnessy poem that begins, "We are the music makers, / And we are the dreamers of dreams" |
| OUTSPAN | Nickname of the guitarist in The Commitments, played by Glen Hansard in Alan Parker's 1991 film |
