A Song of Hope Trivia Quiz

Answer: Industrial Disease

The song was released as a single in the USA, by the band as a promotion of its album "Love Over Gold". With its talk of strikes and dysfunctionality, it, initially, laments the decline of Great Britain's manufacturing industries before becoming a metaphor for the nine-to-five routine that was sucking out the human in humans. The writer, Mark Knopfler, includes a sly reference to one of the first bands that he and Pick Withers were involved in, Brewer's Droop.

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Answer: Can't Get It Out of my Head

Written by Jeff Lynne, "Can't Get It Out of My Head" is off their fourth album, "Eldorado" released in 1974. While it reached number nine on the Billboard charts in the US, it failed to chart well in the UK until 1978, when it was re-released as part of their four-track "ELO EP".

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Answer: Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan originally released "All Along the Watchtower" as part of his 1968 album "John Wesley Harding". Six months after Dylan released his version, Hendrix released his version which would become a top twenty hit in the US and a top five hit in the UK. Dylan liked Hendrix's version so much he adopted it as his own. Over the years Hendrix's version has grown in popularity and critical praise.

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Answer: Mama said

Billboard, responsible for a range of music charts in the United States, once listed "Mama Said" at number forty four on their list of Greatest Songs by All Girl Groups. For the Shirelles the single would reach the Top Ten on a number of charts across the globe, peaking at number four on Billboard's Hot 100. The song was written by Luther Dixon and Willie Denson, both of whom worked closely with the Shirelles in their early days. The song also became the inspiration for Van Morrison's 1995 single "Days Like This", which, in turn, became the official anthem of the peace movement in Northern Ireland.

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Answer: Blue

The song "One Love" was the lead single from Blue's second studio album, also called "One Love". The song was released on October 21, 2002 in the UK, reaching number three on the UK Singles chart. The album and the three singles released from it sold over five million copies.

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Answer: Powderfinger

"My Happiness" is rated as Powderfinger's most successful single, reaching the Top Ten on the Australian Aria charts, the New Zealand charts and making it to number twenty three on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart in the United States. While promoting the single and the album that it was on, "Odyssey Number 5", in the United States, they were invited to perform the song on the David Letterman Show. At the time they were only the fourth Australian act to do so. The song is often mistaken for a love song, which bemused its lyricist, Bernard Fanning, who wrote it to reflect his loneliness when on the road promoting their work.

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Answer: The Youngbloods

The song "Get Together" was a 1967, Top 40 hit for The Youngbloods and in 2001 was included in a list of "lyrically questionable" songs generated by US media conglomerate Clear Channel Communication (now iHeartMedia) after the September 11 attacks. Seems silly, especially in this case, since the chorus is all about coming together and loving one another.

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Answer: One Love

In the song "One Love", Bob Marley & The Wailers encouraged people to be united regardless of their differences for the sake of peace. "One Love" incorporated parts of another song, "People Get Ready" by The Impressions, and this was reflected in a later release of the song when it was titled "One Love/People Get Ready".

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Answer: Human Touch

"Human Touch" and "Lucky Town" were both released on March 31 1992 with "Human Touch" being the more successful of the two. It peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and sold over one million copies. The album was nominated for Best Rock Vocal Performance at the 1993 Grammy Awards.

The album is one of Mr Springsteen's fans' least favourite as the songs are generally upbeat and positive in outlook, a stark contrast to his previous albums. During his acceptance speech, following his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999, Mr Springsteen acknowledged his father's influence on the tone of these early works; "because what would I conceivably have written about without him? I mean, you can imagine that if everything had gone great between us, we would have had disaster. I would have written just happy songs - and I tried it in the early '90s and it didn't work..." The last sentence is a reference to the songs on "Human Touch".

The single from which the lyric above is taken, unlike the album, had more success, reaching number one in three European countries and number sixteen on the Billboard Hot 100.

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Answer: Together

"Together" was the third single released from Ella Eyre's debut album "Feline". It peaked at number 12 on the UK charts. Ella is known more for her collaborations than as a solo artist. Her biggest hits include "Waiting All Night" with Rudimental, "Gravity" with DJ Fresh, and "Bridge over Troubled Water" as part of Artists for Grenfell the charity song.

And so it is time to build our song "A Song of Hope".

VERSE 1
Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze
Now my whole world has gone for dead
So let us not talk falsely now
There'll be days like this, mama said

CHORUS
It's kinda funny how life can change, can flip 180 in a matter of days
You're over there when I need you here

VERSE 2
We are but a moment's sunlight, fading in the grass
Let's get together to fight this Holy Armageddon
Do you think what I'm askin's too much
In the end it's the fight that's just begun