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1. Since I introduced this quiz with lyrics from the 1976 classic "The Ballroom Blitz", which member of the classic line-up of the London-based glam rock band Sweet was 'The Man at the Back' (ie the drummer)?
2. Staying with 1970s glam rock, who is the stickman for Slade, one of two original 1969 members still playing with the group more than 45 years later?
3. Rufus Taylor, son of Queen drummer Roger, became the man at the back for which English rock band in 2015? Ed Graham, who had been the band's drummer since they were formed in Lowestoft, Suffolk in 2000, left in 2014, replaced briefly by Emily Dolan Davies, and then Taylor in 2015.
4. We cross the Atlantic now, to a rock band founded in Palo Alto, California in 1965. For much of their 30-year existence, they utilized a two-drummer combination, with Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart nicknamed "the rhythm devils". Which group is this?
5. On now to another band founded in California in 1965, this time in Los Angeles. Which member of The Doors sat at the back of the stage surrounded by hats and cymbals and holding some sticks?
6. Mike Joyce was the drummer with which 1980s Manchester-based rock band?
7. The original drummer when this English pop/rock band was founded in 1962 was Don Rathbone. In 1964, he was replaced by Bobby Elliot, who is still recording and touring with the group more than 50 years later. Which group is this?
8. Terry Chimes (1976-78 and 1983), Topper Headon (1978-82) and Pete Howard (1983-87) were the three drummers who recorded with which punk rock band founded in London in 1976?
9. Sticking with the English punk scene of the 1970s, Kenny Morris (from 1977-80) and then former-Slits stickman 'Budgie' (1980-96) were the primary drummers with Siouxsie & the Banshees. Who was the group's original drummer, though, notably at their first, notorious 1976 gig at the "100 Club Punk Festival" in Oxford Street, London?
10. Bob Burns was the original drummer of this southern rock band when they were founded in 1965. Artimus Pyle took over the sticks in 1974 until the group's forced hiatus in 1977. He resumed in 1979 and again from 1987-91. Since then, the group went through four drummers before Michael Cartellone joined in 1999, and has remained in position since. Which group is this?
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