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bit bored today so I thought I'd fire up a few of these and see how you lot get on

 

1. What is the only song to ever top the US Billboard rock, dance, and R&B charts simultaneously?

 

2. who was rummored to have played piano on the shangrillas hit leader of the pack?

 

3. Which band, previously called On a Friday, took their name from a Talking Heads song?

 

4. What's the connection between Huey Lewis and The News, Jennifer Rush, and Frankie Goes To Hollywood?

 

5. Which band took their name because they were all less than 5 foot 6?

 

6. Gerry Rafferty wrote Baker Street in a house in which Scottish Town ?

 

7. Name the famous rapper who took his name from a Minesota Vikings (american football) player from the late 80s ?

 

8. Which famous rock star had a mother who survived the german concentration camps?

 

9. Which bands frontman has a father who founded a new york modelling agency?

 

10. Which early new wave/indie band, most of whose members morphed into another band, chose two names for the groups with direct connection to the Nazi movement ?

 

11. What was the only UK number 1 which featured a mother and son in the group?

 

12. Which band got their name after their bass player seen the word several times in a newspaper and thought it sounded good?

 

13. Why does a flat in London owned by Harry Nilsson have place in music history?

 

happy hunting!!!

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Feckin hell!!!! Thats not a quiz .... Its a degree exam

 

 

6...Paisley

9...New York Dolls (calculated guess)

13....Keith Moon died in it

 

6. nope

 

9. nope

 

13. Correct, and Mama Cass from Mamas and the Papas

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1...Another one bites the dust...Queen

2...Billy Joel

3...Radiohead

4...Power of Love (same title differnt songs)

9...Casablancas

11...Lieutenant pigeons Mouldy old dough...One of the bands mother played piano

12..Libertines

13..Keith Moon died in it

 

You have got me with the rest

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1...Another one bites the dust...Queen

2...Billy Joel

3...Radiohead

4...Power of Love (same title differnt songs)

9...Casablancas

11...Lieutenant pigeons Mouldy old dough...One of the bands mother played piano

12..Libertines

13..Keith Moon died in it

 

You have got me with the rest

 

all correct except 12

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