1. What song has AC/DC only played live once?
2. What was Eurythmics’ first album called?
3. Who was music critic Ron Rosenbaum referring to when, in 2009, he wrote: “I’m reluctant to pick on him. He’s been subject to withering contempt from hipster types for so long that it no longer seems worth the time. Still, the mystery persists: How can he be so bad and yet so popular for so long? His music elevates self-aggrandising self-pity and contempt for others into its own new and awful genre: ‘Mock-Rock'.”?
4. What song begins with “You put the boom-boom into my heart”?
5. What do Fleetwood Mac and Pink Floyd have in common?
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6. Mark Knopfler has been described as “homophobic” more than once. Which two Dire Straits songs give his critics ammunition?
7. Who is the guy behind The The?
8. Who got upset when members of The Who started writing their own songs?
9. Why did Dolly Parton ask to be removed from the list of nominees at the 2022 Grammy Awards?
10. What type of music will you find on Scott Bradlee's jukebox?
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11. What was the name of Harry Styles’ first band?
12. Why was Paul Simon disappointed with Elvis Presley’s cover of Bridge Over Troubled Water?
13. What did Jim Steinman have in mind when he wrote Total Eclipse Of The Heart?
14. Who was one of the first artists to sign with The Beatles’ Apple label, had a UK No.1 hit with Those Were The Days
and later married producer Toni Visconti?
15. What was the name of Terence Trent Darby’s second album?
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16. How many months did it take Bruce Springsteen to record the single Born To Run?
17. Which Lana Del Rey song sounds very similar to Radiohead’s Creep?
18. Which Bee Gees album was the first to be manufactured on CD for demonstration purposes?
19. Who performed an eight-minute version of Creep at Coachella in 2008?
20. What song inspired the bad pun in this podcast’s title?
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Answers
1. Ride On [June 22, 2001, in honour of John Lee Hooker, who had died the day before]
2. In The Garden
3. Billy Joel
4. Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, by Wham! [1984]
5. Their founding member/lead singer left before they became famous
6. Les Boys and Money For Nothing
7. Matt Johnson
8. Roger Daltrey. He wanted them to remain an R&Bs cover band
9. She said “I don’t think I’ve earned the right”
10. Postmodern
11. White Eskimo
12. It wasn’t gospel
13. A vampire
14. Mary Hopkin
15. Neither Fish Nor Flesh [1989]
16. Six
17. Get Free
18. Living Eyes
19. Prince
20. Song Sung Blue, by Neil Diamond
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