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SEPTEMBER
2010MUSIC QUIZ
1. British legendary drummer Colin Flooks is better by what stage name ?
2. Saxophonist Kenny G, with global sales totaling more than 75 million albums, started out at the age of 17 as a sideman in which band in 1973 ?
3.
Noted for using Stratocasters, but what was Stevie Ray Vaughan's nickname
for his favorite Strat ?
4. Who was the last batchelor Beatle, which of the Beatles was the last to marry ?
5.
Which 2 Undertones share a birthday on August 13th ?
6. What nationality is Airto Moreira, former drummer of Weather Report, Miles Davis and many others ?
7. Who were the two original guitarists in the rock band Whitesnake ?
8.
Back in 1954 the "Million Dollar Quartet" was made up of which
famous four ?
9.
What was the very first full-length gramophone LP to sell over one million
copies (1956) ?
10. Which legendary musician appeared as an opening act for The Clash in their 1979 American tour ?
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1. Cozy Powell.
2. Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra
3. Lenny
4. Paul McCartney was the last bachelor Beatle. He married Linda Eastman in a civil ceremony in London, 1969. Paul's brother Mike was his best man. No other Beatle attended the wedding.
5. Michael Bradley ~ August 13th 1959; Sean Feargal Sharkey ~ August 13th 1958
6. Brazilian
7. Bernie Marsden and Micky Moody,
8.
Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash.
The "Million Dollar Quartet" is the name given to recordings
made on Tuesday Dec 4th 1956 in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
The recordings were of an impromptu jam session among Elvis Presley,
Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash.
9. Harry Belafonte's "Calypso" album of 1956.
10. Bo Diddley
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SEPTEMBER
2009
MUSIC QUIZ
1.
The song "Killing Me Softly with His Song", was inspired by
which singer ?
2. Which
of
Alanis Morissette's albums was first to
top the charts in Canada, USA,
UK, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium and The Netherlands ?
3. Which 4 singer-musicians were recorded in the Million Dollar Quartet the name given to recordings made in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee in 1956 ?
4. The power ballad "Nobody Does It Better" recorded by Carly Simon was the theme song for which James Bond film ?
5. In September 1976 A&M Records sued George Harrison for $6 million over what ?
6. British singer Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE is better known by what stage name?
7. Which UK pop star was released from HM Edmunds Hill Prison in Newmarket, Suffolk, U.K. May 11th 2009, four months into a fifteen-month sentence?
8. What was Duke Ellington's main instrument ?
9. What was David Bowie's character name in his first major film role 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' in 1976.
10.
At the 2005 BRIT Awards, which American group won three International
awards ~ International Group, International Breakthrough, and International
Album ?
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ANSWERS
1. Don McLean ~ "Killing Me Softly with His Song",
written by composers Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel after Lori Lieberman
saw Don McLean in concert and wrote a poem about the experience, called
"Killing Me Softly With His Blues."
2. Jagged Little Pill ~ Released: June 13th 1995
3.
Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash ~ Million
Dollar Quartet is the name given to recordings made on Tuesday December
4, 1956 in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The recordings
were of an impromptu jam session between Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis,
Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash. A
musical based on the recording session opened at Chicago's Goodman Theatre
on Sept. 27, 2008.
4. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).
5. Non-delivery of a new album after he missed the deadline by two months.
6. Dusty Springfield
7. Boy George ~ he was released from HM Edmunds Hill Prison in Newmarket, Suffolk, four months into a fifteen-month sentence for the assault and false imprisonment of a male escort in his East London flat. He will wear an ankle monitor and be placed on a curfew for the balance of the sentence.
8. Piano
9. Thomas Jerome Newton
10. The Scissor Sister
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