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| 1. | Who had a worldwide hit in 1962 with Hey! Baby? |
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Bruce Channel | |
| 2. | Worldwide, what is the biggest selling album of all time? |
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Michael Jackson|Thriller (110 million since 1982) | |
| 3. | In song, who Waits at the window wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door? |
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Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles - 1966)
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| 4. | Spawning many cover versions, who first had a hit in 1962 with The End of the World? |
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Skeeter Davis | |
| 5. | Released on 24th May 1968, Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake is the fourth studio album by what English band? |
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Small Faces | |
| 6. | What renowned jazz saxophonist was nicknamed "Yardbird" or "Bird", and died in 1955 aged just 34? |
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Charlie Parker | |
| 7. | What Canadian band had a worldwide hit in 1983 with The Safety Dance? |
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Men Without Hats | |
| 8. | What rock band had a worldwide hit in 1975-6 with a cover of the Everly Brothers' 1960 song Love Hurts? |
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Nazareth | |
| 9. | What year saw the tragic deaths of Bon Scott, Ian Curtis, John Bonham, and John Lennon? |
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1980 | |
| 10. | In Peter Gabriel's 1980 song Games Without Frontiers, whose bonfire did Enrico play with? |
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Adolf's
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| 11. | Complete the third line below from Sam Cooke's 1960 song, Wonderful World: Don't know much about history Don't know much biology Don't know much about a ______ _____ |
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Science book
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| 12. | The 2009 album The E.N.D provided what group with three chart-topping hits? |
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The Black Eyed Peas | |
| 13. | "You keep sayin' you got somethin' for me. Somethin' you call love but confess." are the opening lines to what 1965 song? |
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Nancy Sinatra|These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
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| 14. | What album by Blondie includes the 1979 hit songs Heart of Glass, Sunday Girl, and One Way or Another? |
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Parallel Lines | |
| 15. | What 2011 hit song includes the lyrics So if by the time the bar closes. And you feel like falling down. I'll carry you home ...? |
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Fun|We Are Young|Janelle Monáe
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| 16. | A worldwide hit for Sinead O'Connor in 1990, who wrote and recorded the original Nothing Compares 2 U for his 1985 album The Family? |
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Prince | |
| 17. | Selling more than 40 million albums worldwide since 1970, what is the name of this American rock band? |
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The Doobie Brothers | |
| 18. | Released in 1973, Houses of the Holy is the fifth studio album by what English rock band? |
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Led Zeppelin | |
| 19. | Joe Perry is the lead guitarist, backing and occasional lead vocalist, and contributing songwriter for what American rock band? |
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Aerosmith | |
| 20. | Written and recorded by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of British rock group Badfinger in 1970, what power ballad has since been recorded by more than 180 artists worldwide? |
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Without You | |
| 21. | Who had a worldwide hit in 1960 with Everybody's Somebody's Fool? |
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Connie Francis | |
| 22. | Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman had a hit in 2001 with Somethin' Stupid. What father and daughter team first charted with it in 1967? |
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Frank and Nancy Sinatra
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| 23. | What is the first line of Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders' 1965 song The Game of Love? |
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The purpose of a man is to love a woman
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| 24. | Who released the worldwide hit For Once in My Life in 1968? |
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Stevie Wonder | |
| 25. | What 1994 song contains elements of spoken word in its verses, narrated by actor Phil Daniels, who also appears in the song's music video? |
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Blur|Parklife | |
| 26. | Which 1967 song features grandchildren Vera, Chuck, and Dave? |
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When I'm Sixty-Four (The Beatles)
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| 27. | Who's gonna tell you when it's too late. Who's gonna tell you things aren't so great are the opening lines to what 1984 song? |
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The Cars|Drive
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| 28. | In 1986, Club Nouveau revived a Bill Withers classic with a cover of what song? |
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Lean On Me | |
| 29. | All by Myself, Never Gonna Fall in Love Again, and She Did It are among the hits in the 70s by what American singer-songwriter? |
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Eric Carmen | |
| 30. | What 1980 hard rock album is the second highest-selling album worldwide of all time? |
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AC/DC|Back in Black | |
| 31. | Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" is part of a suite of incidental music (Op. 61) to what Shakespeare play? |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
| 32. | Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis is a 1910 work by which British composer? |
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Ralph Vaughan Williams | |
| 33. | What song title links The Top Notes, The Isley Brothers, The Beatles, and Brian Poole and The Tremeloes? |
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Twist and Shout | |
| 34. | The theme song for Dirty Dancing, what duet said (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life in 1987? |
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Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes | |
| 35. | Complete these lyrics from a 1979 song with the three missing words: "I said, watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical. Liberal, oh fanatical, criminal. Won't you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you're Acceptable.
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Respectable, presentable, vegetable (Supertramp - The Logical Song) | |
| 36. | Who was On the Floor in 2011? |
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Jennifer Lopez (featuring Pitbull) | |
| 37. | Which English band were Pretty in Pink in 1981? |
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The Psychedelic Furs
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| 38. | What 1986 song begins with these lyrics? We're leaving together, But still it's farewell. |
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Europe|The Final Countdown
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| 39. | Featuring vocals from Rod Stewart, what Australian band had a worldwide hit in 1972 with In a Broken Dream? |
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Python Lee Jackson | |
| 40. | Whose début single was Wannabe in 1996? |
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Spice Girls | |
| 41. | Name the South Korean singer who had worldwide hits in 2012 and 2013 with Gangnam Style and Gentleman. |
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PSY (Park Jae-sang) | |
| 42. | "Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind." is the opening chorus line to what 1979 song? |
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The Knack|My Sharona
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| 43. | According to the opening lines of a 1967 song, what would you find "Over bridge of sighs. To rest my eyes in shades of green"? |
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Small Faces|Itchycoo Park
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| 44. | Eagles - Hotel California, Donna Summer - I Feel Love, and Boney M - Ma Baker were among the biggest selling hit singles around the world, in which year? |
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1977 | |
| 45. | "I saw the flickering shadows of love on her blind" are lyrics from what 1968 song? |
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Tom Jones|Delilah
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| 46. | What American rapper was born Belcalis Marlenis Almanzar on 11th October 1992? |
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Cardi B | |
| 47. | Who directed the 1983 Michael Jackson's Thriller video? |
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John Landis | |
| 48. | What country song, originally made popular by Porter Wagoner in 1965, and recorded by Bobby Bare and by Jerry Lee Lewis in the same year, was a worldwide hit for Tom Jones in 1966? |
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Green, Green Grass of Home | |
| 49. | What band's line-up in the 1970s comprised Francis Rossi, Alan Lancaster, John Coghlan and Rick Parfitt? |
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Status Quo | |
| 50. | Broken Wings and Kyrie were worldwide hits in 1985 for what American pop rock group? |
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Mr. Mister | |
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