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    Boomers and Beyond: The Ultimate Popular Music Quiz Book
    Boomers and Beyond: The Ultimate Popular Music Quiz Book
    Boomers and Beyond: The Ultimate Popular Music Quiz Book
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    Boomers and Beyond: The Ultimate Popular Music Quiz Book

    By Mart Matthews

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    Boomers & Beyond: The Ultimate Popular Music Quiz Book
    Mart Matthews is a prolific author of quizzes, having published 19 books on horseracing and football. This one on music follows the same pattern as the previous ones – 1,000 questions in 100 categories.
    It has questions on blues, country, doo-wop, folk, heavy metal, hip-hop, jazz, Motown, musicals, pop, pub rock, punk rock, rap, reggae, rock, rockabilly, soul and much more besides.
    Try these questions on Beatles record covers:
    1. What is the link between the cover of Bob Dylan's Freewheelin' and Abbey Road by the Beatles?
    2. Apart from 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' and 'Beatles', what are the only other four words on the front cover of that album?
    3. On the cover of A Hard Day's Night there are 20 photos of the Beatles' heads. Who is the only Beatle to be photographed from behind in one of the shots?
    4. Which was the first Beatles album to be issued without the group's name on the front cover?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherG2 Rights
    Release dateMay 17, 2024
    ISBN9781782816195
    Boomers and Beyond: The Ultimate Popular Music Quiz Book

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      Boomers and Beyond - Mart Matthews

      IllustrationIllustration

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      My thanks are due to Pat Morgan and Jules Gammond for helping me get this project published.

      DEDICATION

      Listening to music has been one of the pleasures of my life, and arguing about it with friends is also right up there. My thanks are due to all of them, particularly Sally Bristow, Ian Campbell and Clyde Ferguson.

      SOURCES

      The number of books on music I’ve consulted over the years runs to three figures, but for the purposes of this quiz I’ve found the following very useful and would like to extend my thanks to them.

      Donald Clarke – The Rise and Fall of Popular Music.

      Neil Cossar – This Day in Music.

      Paul Gambaccini, Tim Rice and Jo Rice – British Hit Singles

      Nick Logan and Bob Woffinden – The NME Encyclopaedia of Rock

      Tom Moon – 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die

      Mark Paytress – I Was There: Gigs that Changed the World

      And last but not least – Wikipedia

      Illustration

      Published by G2 Entertainment Ltd

      © G2 Entertainment 2024

      ISBN: 978-1-78281-619-5

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information within this publication but the publishers cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions. Views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the publishers.

      PICTURE CREDITS: Wikimedia Commons

      INTRODUCTION

      Whenever anyone produces a music quiz they tend to give away the music they like the most. It might therefore not be too hard to notice that, despite my best efforts, I’ve been unable to hide the fact that I can take or leave most of the music made in this century, and am much happier in the previous one. However, the one massive advantage of still being around now is that if you ever wonder what a track you’ve heard about sounds like, you can hear it instantly without it costing you anything in time and money. Magic! Quite a change from the past – a land I tend to inhabit! So please listen if you are intrigued about anything herein, and form your own opinion about the phenomenal amount of music contained here. Enjoy the quest.

      PS: you won’t find anything on classical music in this quiz, but that’s not because I don’t like it. Quite the reverse in fact, particularly where Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and Elgar are concerned. But it didn’t really fit in this quiz. Next time, perhaps.

      CONTENTS

      1. ‘A’

      2. ALBUM COVERS

      3. ANYTHING GOES

      4. ASSORTED GENRES

      5. ASSORTED ROCK BANDS PART 1

      6. ASSORTED ROCK BANDS PART 2

      7. ASSORTED ROCK BANDS PART 3

      8. BACKING BANDS PART 1

      9. BACKING BANDS PART 2

      10. BASS PLAYERS

      11. THE BEATLES PART 1

      12. THE BEATLES PART 2

      13. BEATLES GIRLS

      14. BLUE

      15. BLUES – THE SOURCE

      16. BODY PARTS

      17. BOOKS ON MUSIC

      18. BROTHERLY LOVE?

      19. CAN BLUE MEN SING THE WHITES?

      20. CHANTEUSES

      21. COLOURFUL BANDS

      22. COLOURS

      23. COMMUNICATION

      24. COUNTRY MUSIC PART 1

      25. COUNTRY MUSIC PART 2

      26. CROONERS

      27. CRYPTIC BANDS

      28. CRYPTIC BEATLES SONGS

      29. CRYPTIC BLUESMAKERS

      30. CRYPTIC SONGS PART 1

      31. CRYPTIC SONGS PART 2

      32. CRYPTIC SONGS PART 3

      33. CRYPTIC STARS PART 1

      34. CRYPTIC STARS PART 2

      35. DANGER – GIG IN PROGRESS!

      36. DEATH – THE SONGS

      37. DEATH – A DOSE OF REALITY

      38. DESERT ISLAND DISCS

      39. DOO-WOP

      40. DRUMMERS

      41. DYLAN ALBUMS

      42. DYLAN COVERS

      43. FOLK MUSIC – AMERICAN

      44. FOLK MUSIC – BRITISH

      45. FOOD FOR THOUGHT

      46. FROM THE BEES

      47. GOD

      48. THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK

      49. GUITARISTS

      50. HAVE A DRINK ON ME …

      51. THE HEART OF THE MATTER

      52. HEAVY METAL

      53. JAZZ GREATS

      54. LABELS

      55. LEGENDARY CONCERTS

      56. LIVING THINGS: BANDS

      57. LIVING THINGS: SONGS

      58. LONDON

      59. LYRICS

      60. MOONING!

      61. MOTOWN

      62. MUSICALS

      63. MUSIC ON TV AND RADIO

      64. THE MUSIC VIDEO

      65. NAME-DROPPING

      66. NUMBERS PART 1

      67. NUMBERS PART 2

      68. POT LUCK

      69. ELVIS PRESLEY

      70. PUB ROCK

      71. PUNK ROCK

      72. ?

      73. QUOTES

      74. RAIN

      75. RAP AND HIP-HOP

      76. REGGAE

      77. ROCK VENUES

      78. THE ROLLING STONES

      79. SHIPS AND SAILING

      80. SINGER-SONGWRITERS: FEMALE PART 1

      81. SINGER-SONGWRITERS: FEMALE PART 2

      82. SINGER-SONGWRITERS: MALE PART 1

      83. SINGER-SONGWRITERS: MALE PART 2

      84. SOUL

      85. THE PHIL SPECTOR SOUND

      86. SUNSHINE

      87. THANK YOU FOR THE DAYS

      88. THERE ARE PLACES I REMEMBER …

      89. …ALL MY LIFE, THOUGH SOME HAVE CHANGED

      90. THIS COULD BE THE LAST TIME

      91. TRAINS

      92. TRANSPORTS OF DELIGHT

      93. WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG

      94. WHICH?

      95. THE WHO

      96. WHO CALLED THE COPS?

      97. WILD CARD

      98. WITH A GUN

      99. YES, IT’S NUMBER ONE, IT’S TOP OF THE POPS – BUT IT STINKS!

      100. ‘Z’

      1

      ‘A’

      All the answers in this section start with A.

      1. A highly successful singing foursome shares its status as a palindrome with a Steely Dan album. Who are the group and which album is involved?

      2. Man shoeing a horse takes a break to eat a chocolate bar. Which group is referenced here?

      3. What was the name of Elvis Costello’s first backing band?

      4. Which Midlands group from the 1960s, unusually for the time, sported a female bass player, one Megan Davies?

      5. Which British band, who sound like they were no better or worse than any other group, got a big break when they were the support act on the night of Eric Clapton’s comeback concert of 1973?

      6. Which American singer-songwriter found it hard to gain a record contract after a well-received start that included the albums Subway to the Country and American Gothic in the early 1970s?

      7. A male rock group from the early 1970s and a female pop group from the late 1990s share being British and the first word of their names. Who are the two groups?

      8. It took three years, five months and two days in the life of this Atlanta-based hip-hop group to get a record label interested in their first effort, so when Chrysalis finally gave them the nod they used that timeframe as the title of the album. Who were they?

      9. Both the Beatles for Anna and the Stones for You Better Move On had good reason to be thankful to this singer-songwriter from America, who died at the age of 53 in 1993. Who was he?

      10. Which talented guitarist was a founder member of the Dutch band called Focus?

      2

      ALBUM COVERS

      Which living things, either real or depicted by artwork, appear on the covers of the following well-known albums?

      1. Atom Heart Mother – Pink Floyd

      2. Music from Big Pink – the Band

      3. Déjà Vu – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

      4. Exodus – Bob Marley and the Wailers

      5. Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! – the Rolling Stones

      6. The Hissing of Summer Lawns – Joni Mitchell

      7. Graceland – Paul Simon

      8. Tapestry – Carole King

      9. Caravanserai – Santana

      10. Borderline – Ry Cooder

      3

      ANYTHING GOES

      1. Elvis Presley never appeared in concert in Britain, but did touch down on British soil while in the US Army. In which country?

      2. Which member of the Tornados, who had a massive hit with Telstar in 1962, fittingly died at the age of 57 in 2000?

      3. Bernard Cribbins reached the top ten in 1962 with a song that shared its name with a London band formed in 1989. What were they both called?

      4. Which Dire Straits song that appeared on their Making Movies album of 1980 shared its name with a Bruce Springsteen song and album released seven years later?

      5. In which country did disc jockey John Peel die in 2004?

      6. The Police appeared on an advert on American television in 1978 – for which product?

      A – Hershey Bars

      B – Kentucky Fried Chicken

      C – Pepsi-Cola

      D – Wrigley’s chewing gum

      7. Which Rolling Stones album shares its name with the title of a Franz Kafka story?

      8. Which chart-topping 1960s British group took their name from a 1956 film that starred John Wayne?

      9. Joe Strummer of the Clash died in 2002, but had what named after him posthumously three years later?

      A – A guitar

      B – A horse

      C – A studio

      D – A train

      10. Not entirely unsurprisingly, who became on 12 January 1993 the first living inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to fail to make the gig?

      4

      ASSORTED GENRES

      1. It would be appropriate if we could locate this Boston-based new wave group formed in 1976 and fronted by Ric Ocasek in the garage genre, but unfortunately that is stretching it somewhat. Who were they?

      2. With which musical genre did Lonnie Donegan enjoy great success in the 1950s?

      3. Culture Club, Spandau Ballet and Talk Talk, for better or worse, were often placed under which heading in the 1980s?

      4. The title of a 1956 LP by Harry Belafonte was also the name of one of the musical fields in which he worked. What was it?

      5. When

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