1. Taylor Hanson of Hanson, James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins, Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and Cheap Trick's Bun E. Carlos have formed which super group this year (2009) ?

2. In which year did Jefferson Airplane evolve into Jefferson Starship ?

3. The publishing rights to which 1997 Verve song go to Allen Klein, The Rolling Stones' former manager ?

4. Which band was Janis Joplin fronting at the 1969 Woodstock Festival ?

5. 23 year-old TV food critic and chef, Katie Lee, married which American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and classical composer on October 2nd 2004 ?

6. Ronald C. "Pigpen" McKernan was a founding member, organist and harmonicist of which American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area.

7. Who joined alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins in 2007 as their new bassist and a backing vocalist, replacing former bassists D'arcy Wretzky and Melissa Auf der Maur ?

8. Reginald Kenneth Dwight changed his name to Elton John... which musicians did he take his new names from ?

9. What was the first video by a black artist to be aired by the MTV channel ?

10. Madonna has the face of who, tattooed on her bottom ?

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1. Tinted Windows

2. 1974

3. Bitter Sweet Symphony - it samples an obscure orchestral version of "The Last Time," a 1965 song by the Rolling Stones. This was recorded before they got proper and complete permission from the Stones to use the riff, so the Verve had to sign away most of the royalties from this in order to release it.

4. Joplin and the Kozmic Blues Band

5. Billy Joel

6. The Grateful Dead.

7. Ginger Reyes aka Ginger A. Pooley aka Ginger Sling.

8. John comes from Long John Baldry, British R&B singer and founder of Blues Inc. The name Elton comes from Elton Dean, a Bluesology sax player. Eventually, he made Elton Hercules John his legal name. (Hercules was the name of the horse in the British comedy series Steptoe and Son)

9. 'Billie Jean' by Michael Jackson.

10. Marilyn Monroe (she also has MP standing for Madonna's Property tattooed there too!)

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JUNE 2008 QUIZ


1. In 2000 which mega singing star paid £1.45m for the Steinway piano on which John Lennon wrote 'Imagine.'

2. Who was the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame (1987)

3. Which legendary rock musician introduced the "Rock Hand Symbol" of the two middle fingers and thumb in to the palm of the hand and the pinky and index finger out, onto the rock scene ?

4. Petula Clark's chart hit, "This Is My Song" was written by which movie actor, director, producer ?

5. In the recording industry the initials EMI stands for what ?

6. How did Cockney Rebels' original bass player, Paul Jeffreys meet his sad and untimely death in 1988 ?

7. Barry Alan Pincus is better known as whom ?

8. Motown musician, Funk Brother's William"Benny"Benjamin was known for playing which instrument ?

9. Which rock icon took a photograph of The Queen of England on her Golden Jubilee in 2002 that was later used on a Canadian stamp.

10. Which member of the US punk rock band, The Ramones, first adopted the name Ramone as his own ?

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ANSWERS

1. George Michael

2. Aretha Franklin

3. Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi (Got it from his Grannie)

4. Charlie Chaplin

5. Electrical & Musical Instruments formed in March 1931 from a merger of the UK Columbia Graphophone Company and the Gramophone Company.

6. He was one of the 270 passengers on Pan-Am flight 103 killed by a terrorist bomb when the plane crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland. He was with his bride on their honeymoon. Sex Pistol John Lydon and his wife, Nora missed the flight because his wife hadn't packed in time. The Four Tops also had been booked onto the flight returning to the States for Christmas but missed it after a recording session over ran.

7. Barry Manilow

8. Drums, a key member of the Funk Brothers, he was with Motown from 1959 until his untimely death in 1969.

9. Bryan Adams; during the 1998 Winnipeg Arena concert, Bryan made a point of commenting on the venue’s huge portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, saying he had never seen a picture of her smiling. Then, in 2002 Adams photographed the monarch on her Golden Jubilee and his photo, with the Queen smiling, was used on a Canadian postage stamp.

10. Douglas Colvin was the first, calling himself Dee Dee Ramone. MORE INFO
Jeffry Hyman - Joey Ramone; John Cummings - Johnny Ramone; Thomas -Tommy Ramone.

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