1. In the '80s, which female singer released 7 consecutive singles that hit #1 on the US pop charts?

2. Which member of The Four Tops co-wrote the Marvin Gaye classic 'What's Goin' On'?

3. What colour does Alecia Moore take to the stage?

4. What famous heavy metal band has a member who was a top-ranked junior tennis player?

5. What is the subject matter of 'Mrs Bartolozzi', a track from Kate Bush's 2005 album?

6. The first gold record for an LP was awarded by RCA in 1957 to "who" for "which album" that sold over 1,000,000 copies?

7. Which band name is an anagram of 'Cully's Stout Beer'?

8. According to The Rolling Stones in their song "Paint it Black", what colour is the door they want to paint?

9. Pink Floyd named an album after one, Michael Jackson was 'off' his, AC/DC's contained a fly and John Lennon's came with bridges. What do they all have in common?

10. Where was the Jester in Don McLean's "American Pie"?

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ANSWERS

1. Whitney Houston - Starting with "Saving All My Love For You" in 1985 and ending with "Where Do Broken Hearts Go?" in 1988.

2. Renaldo 'Obie' Benson

3. Pink

4. Metallica : Lars Ulrich moved from Denmark to California to work on his game, but ended up playing the drums.

5. A washing machine

6. Harry Belafonte for the album Calypso, the first album to sell over 1,000,000 copies (recorded in 1956)

7. Blue Oyster Cult

8. Red

9. Albums with the word Wall in it .. Pink Floyd - The Wall in 1979; Michael Jackson - Off the Wall in 1979; AC/DC - Fly on the Wall in 1985; John Lennon - Walls and Bridges in 1974.

10. On the sidelines in a cast

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JUNE 2009

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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ANSWERS

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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