1. Who said: "Just because you sell lots of records, it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins.”
2. James Brown was dubbed the Godfather of Soul, Nina Simone was the High Priestess of Soul and Aretha Franklin was simply Lady Soul. But who, according to Rolling Stone readers, was the greatest soul singer of all time?
3. What song on Queen’s first album inspired Freddie Mercury’s surname?
4. Which Police song did Sting once describe as “an articulate song about being inarticulate”?
5. How many sessions did it take Van Morrison to record Astral Weeks?
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6. How old was Aretha Franklin when she released her first single? 12, 14, 16?
7. What was Elton John’s first official cover?
8. What prompted Neil Young to write Cinnamon Girl, Cowgirl In The Sand, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and Down By The River in one day?
9. What month did U2’s October come out?
10. Who recorded the original version of Video Killed The Radio Star?
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11. Who produced The Beatles’ Anthology singles Real Love and Free As A Bird?
12. Nina Simone’s 1969 album, To Love Somebody, contains three Bob Dylan covers. What were they?
13. Which album did Jimmy Page say was his favourite of the 90s and David Bowie said was one of the records he’d take to a desert island?
14. It’s A Long Way To The Top is notable for the fact it features the bagpipes, which were played by Bon Scott. When did Scott learn to play them?
15. Who covered When Doves Cry on Baz Luhrmann’s 2007 movie Romeo & Juliet?
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16. What was ABBA’s SOS originally called?
17. How many times has The Band’s Garth Hudson filed for bankruptcy?
18. What were two unusual things about Joe Jackson’s 1986 double live album, Big World?
19. Who once said “all good music is just soul music”?
20. What was the name on Hank Williams’s birth certificate?
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Answers
1. Noel Gallagher
2. Otis Redding
3. My Fairy King [“Mother Mercury, look what they've done to me”]
4. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
5. Three
6. 14 [Never Grow Old]
7. Love Song, by Lesley Duncan [Tumbleweed Connection]
8. He had a fever and was too sick to do anything else
9. October
10. Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club [1978]
11. Jeff Lynne
12. The Times They Are A-Changin’, I Shall Be Released and Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
13. Grace, by Jeff Buckley
14. During the recording
15. Quindon Tarver
16. Turn Me On
17. Three
18. Side four was blank and the audience was not allowed to make a sound
19. Ray Charles
20. Hiram Williams
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