1. What song did Elvis Presley say was the saddest he’d ever heard?
2. Where did David Bowie get the “Stardust” in Ziggy Stardust From?
3. Who sang “I cheated myself like I knew I would”?
4. Australian radio station Triple-J has an occasional segment in which it asks artists to perform covers in its studio.
What is the name of the series it has been turned into?
5. Who had a late-career revival courtesy of the 2013 documentary 20 Feet From Stardom?
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6. What does the title of Cat Stevens’ third album, Mona Bone Jakon, mean?
7. In 1963, which sportsman covered Ben E King’s Stand By Me?
8. What was the name on Freddie Mercury’s birth certificate?
9. What U2 album did Apple put on iTunes for free?
10. Why did Bob Dylan despise Neil Young’s Heart Of Gold?
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11. What Nina Simone song did Jay-Z heavily sample on Story Of OJ?
12. Which song was a last-minute inclusion on Jeff Buckley’s debut album, Grace, and what song was removed to make way for it?
13. Keyboardist Richard Tandy didn’t like the overt disco elements in ELO’s eighth album, Discovery. What did he consequently dub the album?
14. Which hit song did Pete Townshend once describe as “the most clumsy piece of writing I’ve ever done”?
15. Who sang the iconic vocal on Pink Floyd’s The Great Gig In The Sky?
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16. Who played harmonica on Eurythmics’ 1985 hit There Must Be An Angel?
17. Which Dire Straits album was NME critic Mat Snow referring to when he wrote: “It contains the tritest
would-be melodies in history, the last word in tranquilising chord changes, the most cloying lonesome playing and
ultimate in transparently fake troubadour sentiment ever to ooze out of a million-dollar recording studio.”?
18. After Bon Scott died, how long did AC/DC wait before starting to record its next album?
19. What song did Damien Rice merge with When Doves Cry in 2005?
20. What was Prince’s first hit single?
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Answers
1. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, by Hank Williams
2. Norman Odam, AKA Legendary Stardust Cowboy
3. Amy Winehouse [You Know I’m No Good]
4. Like A Version
5. Merry Clayton
6. It’s a word he made up for his penis
7. Cassius Clay
8. Farrokh Bulsara
9. Songs Of Innocence
10. He thought it copied him
11. Four Women
12. So Real and Forget Her
13. Disco-very
14. Pinball Wizard
15. Clare Torry who, in 2005, successfully sued the band for a co-credit
16. Stevie Wonder, who Annie Lennox described as a “supreme musician”
17. Brothers In Arms
18. Six weeks
19. Babe I’m Gonna Leave You, by Led Zeppelin
20. Controversy
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