1. At the 1998 Grammy Awards, Luciano Pavarotti was scheduled to sing Nessun Dorma,
but fell ill just 30 minutes before he was due to go on. Who replaced him?
2. What is the unusual instrument heard at the start of Bob Marley’s Could You Be Loved?
3. Which studio album did Van Morrison’s record company release without his knowledge?
4. Who did The Bee Gees write To Love Somebody for?
5. Which song begins with: “I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know darling that you do.”?
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6. Who did Kurt Cobain say he was trying to rip off when he wrote Smells Like Teen Spirit?
7. Which song did Paul Weller record with both The Jam and The Style Council?
8. What is the name on Midge Ure’s birth certificate?
9. Who did Bobbie Gentry sing an ode to in 1967?
10. How far away did Stevie Wonder say heaven was?
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11. Which Rolling Stones song did Keith Richards say was “calculated to be a disco song”?
12. Where did Nina Simone get “Nina” from?
13. Neil Young’s Old Man was originally written as the first half of a medley. What song was the second half?
14. What do PJ Harvey’s Memphis, Chris Cornell’s Wave Goodbye and Rufus Wainwright’s Memphis Skyline have in common?
15. Who came up with the concept and name of The Electric Light Orchestra [hint: it wasn’t Jeff Lynne]?
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16. Who did Rick Rubin say was “the greatest rock & roll band of all time. They don't write emotional lyrics.
They don't play emotional songs. The emotion is all in that groove. And that groove is timeless.”?
17. What was Joe Jackson’s first single?
18. Which member of The Band was the only one never to sing lead vocal?
19. What do Wonderwall [Oasis], Faith [George Michael], Roxanne [The Police] and Wild Night [Van Morrison] have in common?
20. What is unusual about Prince’s When Doves Cry?
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Answers
1. Aretha Franklin
2. A Brazilian drum called a cuica [pronounced “kweeka”]
3. Blowin’ Your Mind [1967]
4. Otis Redding
5. Into My Arms, by Nick Cave
6. The Pixies
7. Move On Up, by Curtis Mayfield
8. James Ure [“Midge” is “Jim” pronounced backwards]
9. Billie Joe
10. 10 zillion light years
11. Miss You [1978]
12. It was a nickname given to her by one of her first boyfriends
13. A Man Needs A Maid
14. They were all written about Jeff Buckley
15. Roy Wood
16. AC/DC
17. Is She Really Going Out With Him
18. Garth Hudson
19. The song stops, then restarts
20. There is no bass
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