Quiz #9: Have You Been Paying Attention?

1. Why did Annie Lennox cause a stir during the Eurythmics’ performance of Sweet Dreams at the 1984 Grammys?

2. What album contains the songs Pigs On The Wing [Part One], Pigs, Dogs, Sheep and Pigs On The Wing [Part Two]?

3. How many times did Jeff Buckley meet his father, Tim?

4. What song was a major influence on U2’s Desire?

5. Who recorded the original version of Try A Little Tenderness?

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6. Which song did Noel Gallagher say he stole the melody to Half The World Away from?

7. What food did Jimi Hendrix hate?

8. What was Mazzy Star’s only hit?

9. How many songs did David Bowie have when he started recording Tonight?

10. Where will you find the heroes in Leonard Cohen’s Suzanne?

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11. In 1985, Phil Collins had a hit with Sussudio. What does it mean?

12. Who uses the pseudonym Nanker Phelge?

13. Who once said “complacency is the great disease of your autumn years and I work hard to prevent that”?

14. How many songs written by Sting contain the lines: “Do I have to tell the story of a thousand rainy days since we first met?
It's a big enough umbrella but it's always me that ends up getting wet.”?

15. What song appears on Buffalo Springfield’s second album and Neil Young’s Trans?

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16. What was the first Electric Light Orchestra album to feature the multi-coloured spaceship that would forevermore be synonymous with the band?

17. What was The Who’s Pictures Of Lily and Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand about?

18. Which 1980s album was Rolling Stone critic David Fricke referring to when he wrote: “In a period when most pop music is
conceived purely as product, it dares to put art before airplay.”?

19. What is AC/DC’s The Jack about?

20. In 2019, the US Library Of Congress added which movie for preservation in the National Film Registry
for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”?

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Answers:

1. She looked like a man

2. Animals, by Pink Floyd

3. Once [he was 8yo]

4. The Stooges’ 1969

5. The Ray Noble Orchestra

6. This Guy’s In Love With You, by Herb Alpert [1968]

7. Lumpy mashed potatoes

8. Fade Into You [1994]

9. None

10. In the seaweed

11. Nothing. He made it up.

12. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

13. Nick Cave

14. Three. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic [Ghost In The Machine], O My God [Synchronicity] and Seven Days [Ten Summoner’s Tales]

15. Mr Soul

16. Their sixth album, 1976’s A New World Record 

17. Masturbation

18. Love Over Gold, by Dire Straits

19. Gonnorhea

20. Purple Rain

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