1. Whose cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water is the “most significant”, according to Paul Simon?
2. Which country artist covered Nirvana’s In Bloom in 2016?
3. Who wrote and recorded the original version of Suspicious Minds?
4. Who is the Billie Jean that inspired Michael Jackson’s song?
5. U2 made three videos for Achtung Baby's One. Who appeared in one of them and later complained he hadn't been paid?
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6. What song did Neil Young write on his 20th birthday?
7. What was the name on Nina Simone’s birth certificate?
8. What did Jeff Buckley say was “a euphemism for a dropper full of smack that you shoot in your arm”?
9. Olivia Newton John’s producer, John Farrar, composed the songs on Side 1 of the soundtrack to 1980’s Xanadu?
Who composed [and sang] the songs on Side 2?
10. Where did Pink Floyd get the name Ummagumma from?
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11. What is odd about the cover of The Who’s A Quick One?
12. What does Eurythmics’ Sexcrime and Bob Dylan’s Lay Lady Lay have in common?
13. In 2010, a Canadian radio station banned Dire Straits’ Money For Nothing after receiving how many complaints?
14. What major mistake was made during the mixing of Billy Joel’s first album, Cold Spring Harbor?
15. Which AC/DC song was Metal Hammer magazine referring to when it said: “There are rock songs that appeal to metal fans and there are metal songs that appeal to rock fans. Then there is xxxxx – a rock and metal song that appeals to everybody, from dads to dudes, to little old ladies beating noisy kids over the heads with their sticks – and it all hangs on that monumental, no-nonsense, three-chord monster of a riff.”?
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16. Sixteen days after Prince died in April 2016, how many people filed into Toronto’s Massey Hall to pay their respects?
17. Which song opens with: “Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you.”?
18. What happened to Stevie Wonder three days after Innervisions came out in August 1973?
19. How old was ABBA’s Agnetha when she wrote her first song? 6, 16, 26?
20. What was unusual about the four albums Weezer released in 1994, 2001, 2008 and 2019?
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Answers
1. Aretha Franklin’s
2. Sturgill Simpson
3. Mark James
4. No one. Jackson said “there is a girl named Billie Jean, but it's not about that Billie Jean. Billie Jean is kind of anonymous. It represents a lot of girls.
They used to call them groupies in the '60s. Every girl claimed that their son was related to one of my brothers”.
5. Bono’s father, Robert Hewson
6. Sugar Mountain
7. Eunice Waymon
8. A mojo pin
9. Electric Light Orchestra
10. It was made up by a friend of the band, who used it when referring to sex
11. John Entwistle is pictured playing left handed
12. They were commissioned for movie soundtracks, but rejected by the films' directors
13. One [the decision was overturned 12 months later]
14. The tapes were accidentally sped up, meaning Joel’s voice was higher than it actually was
15. Back In Black
16. 1999
17. Wonderwall, by Oasis
18. He was involved in a near-fatal car accident
19. Six
20. They were all called Weezer
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