Feuding Rock Stars Trivia Quiz

Answer: Silver Springs

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham met during her senior year in high school, when she saw him playing at the Young Life club. She joined him in singing harmony on the song "California Dreamin'".

Rolling Stone magazine said, "Nicks' tender yet vengeful post-mortem on her breakup with Buckingham [became] an emotional lightning rod. The song would have behind-the-scenes repercussions for decades to come - nearly leading to the breakup of the band."

Even though it was fully-recorded, "Silver Springs" was not included on Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album. Their engineer/co-producer said, "'[Silver Springs]' is the best song that never made it to a record album."

The song was released on the B-side of the single "Go Your Own Way", a song which was written by Lindsey Buckingham about their breakup.

Nicks had gifted the publishing rights for "Silver Springs" to her mother. But because it was not part of any album, it did not generate much money for her mother.

Answer: creative differences

Band members felt that lead singer/songwriter John Fogerty was being overly controlling and domineering was approaching a boiling point. Tom Fogerty, John's brother, decided he had enough and resigned from CCR in 1971, with his departure being made public in February. The remaining members initially considered replacing him but ultimately continued as a trio.

The other members -- Doug Clifford and Stu Cook -- complained that they weren't allowed to write and produce their own songs. John Fogerty came up with an arrangement for the trio to write and sing lead on songs in a proportional manner. Their final album, "Mardi Gras", was released in April 1972, but was a critical failure.

After their breakup, John Fogerty had legal issues with the band's publishing company, Fantasy Records, and their producer, Saul Zaentz. In 1980, Fogerty had traded his rights to CCR's songs to cancel his contractual obligations. Fantasy then owned the rights to Fogerty's song "Run Through the Jungle". They sued Fogerty because his song, "Old Man Down the Road" sounded so much like CCR's songs; basically, Fogerty was sued for plagiarizing himself.

Answer: Two married couples

ABBA (an acronym of the member's first names) formed in 1972.

Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad were in a relationship for 11 years, from 1969 to 1980. They married on October 6, 1978, but divorced in 1981.

Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog married on July 6, 1971. They separated in 1979 and divorced in 1980. The failure of their marriage inspired Ulvaeus to write the lyrics of "The Winner Takes It All", a poignant song on their 1980 album "Super Trouper".

The band unofficially broke up in December 1982.

Answer: David Lee Roth

Roth further explained, "There were always creative differences. We've never gotten along. We started in rival bands. Bitter rivals. But we were thrown together and it was amazing."

After the "1984" tour, Roth wanted to leave and form a new band. He'd had success with solo cover songs, and had been offered a $20 million film deal. However, the movie deal fell through when CBS Pictures had a corporate reorganization.

After Roth's departure, Eddie looked for another front for the band. He invited Patty Smyth and Daryl Hall; both declined. He finally invited hard rock band Montrose's singer Sammy Hagar. The four studio albums they produced with Hagar as frontman were successes, all going to number one on the Billboard pop music charge. Seventeen singles passed the top 12 of the mainstream rock tracks chart. The band was nominated twice for Grammy awards, winning the 1992 award for Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal for their album "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge."

Answer: Bridge Over Troubled Water

In the late 1960s Art Garfunkel started acting. His time away from recording with Paul Simon added stress to their growing differences in their careers.

The folk duo's soothing music hid the bitter tensions growing inside the duo. During their recording of "BOTW", the two disliked each other so much that they couldn't agree on what tracks to use, and refused to record each other's suggestions.

For their next few years, they spoke to each other only two or three times a year.

Answer: Eagles

Tempers between the band members boiled over in what was described as "long night at Wrong Beach", on July 31, 1980, in Long Beach, CA. Don Felder rather rudely said, "you're welcome... I guess," to US Senator Alan Cranston's wife when the couple was thanking the band for playing at a benefit for his re-election campaign. Throughout their performance that night, Felder and Glenn Frey kept taunting each other, with comments like, "I'm gonna kick your ass when we get off the stage."

The band had a commitment with Elektra Records to make a live album of their tour. Frey had left the band and remained in Los Angeles; the rest of the back was in Miami. "We were fixing three-part harmonies courtesy of Federal Express," said producer Bill Szymczyk. The credits on the album listed five attorneys, and the liner notes simply read, "Thank you and goodnight."

The individual members had relatively successful careers through the 1980s:
-- Joe Walsh had an initial album that was more successful than the following ones. He performed as a session musician for Dan Fogelberg, Steve Winwood, John Entwistle, Richard Marx, and EPL.

-- Don Henley achieved commercial solo success. He sang a duet with Stevie Nicks, and had successful album releases with "I Can't Stand Still", "Building the Perfect Beast", and "The End of the Innocence".

-- Glenn Frey also had solo success in the 1980s. He also performed songs for TV and movies: "Smuggler's Blues" and "You Belong to the City" for "Miami Vice" and "The Heat is On" for "Beverly Hills Cop".

Their comeback tour was called "Hell Freezes Over" for Henley's recurring statement that the Eagles would get back together "when Hell freezes over".

Answer: Abbey Road

The Beatles' break-up started two years before they officially disbanded. In 1968, they were recording "The Beatles", also known as The White Album. Because of divisive relations, Ringo Starr quit for two weeks, leaving the others to record "Back in the USSR" as a trio, with Paul McCartney on drums. John Lennon lost interest in working with McCartney, scornfully calling the latter's "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" "granny music shit". Tensions were also aggravated by Lennon insisting that his romantic partner Yoko Ono attend recording sessions, counter to the group's established understanding that girlfriends were not allowed in the studio.

Although "Let It Be" was their last album release, it was largely recorded before "Abbey Road". The former was intended for a television special to be called "Beatles at Work". Much of the album's content came from studio work beginning in January 1969, many hours of which were captured on film by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg. Producer George Martin said of the project, "[it was] not at all a happy recording experience. It was a time when relations between the Beatles were at their lowest ebb." Lennon said the sessions were, "hell ... the most miserable ... on Earth", and George Harrison stated they were, "the low of all-time."

McCartney filed suit for the dissolution of the Beatles' contractual partnership on New Years Eve 1970. Legal disputes continued, and the break-up was not fomalized until December 1974, when Lennon finally signed the paperwork ending the partnership.

Answer: The Ramones

They were inspired to adopt the pseudonym "Ramones" by Paul McCartney, who often checked into hotels with the alias "Paul Ramon".

The Ramones performed 2,263 concerts, nearly non-stop for 22 years, and released 14 studio albums.

Answer: Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses was formed by the merger of two Los Angeles bands: L.A. Guns & Hollywood Rose. Their debut album, "Appetite for Destruction", didn't have initial success until a year after its release when demand for the video of "Welcome to the Jungle" brought them mainstream popularity. The album eventually had 18 million units sold in the US and 30 million worldwide.

Answer: The Jackson 5

The Jackson brothers -- Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and Michael -- formed The Jackson 5 (sometimes stylized "Jackson 5ive") in 1964. They performed in talent shows and clubs in the "Chitlin' Circuit". They first signed with Steeltown Records in 1967, with Motown in 1968, and with Epic Records in 1976. They had to change their name from "The Jackson 5" to just "The Jacksons" because Motown still held the rights to the name "Jackson 5".

Michael left the band in the 1980s and became The King of Pop. He had an untimely death in 2009 at the age of 50. In 2011, there was a discord between the brothers about a tribute concert honoring their late brother Michael. While most of the family were present in Cardiff, Wales, two of the brothers -- Randy (the youngest who joined in 1976) and Jermaine -- denounced the concert as the date of it occurred around Conrad Murray's manslaughter trial in relation to Michael's death.