Almost Angels - Angels in Song Quiz

Answer: Lightning Crashes

Live's song "Lightning Crashes" is about the circle of life. A young mother giving birth to a child while an old woman down the hall dies. The song was released on the album "Throwing Copper" in 1994 by the band Live.

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Answer: Juice Newton

Juice Newton, born Judith Kay Cohen in 1952, is best known for her top-ten pop hits, "Queen Of Hearts" and "Angel Of The Morning". Ms. Newton has earned numerous musical awards and nominations, and has sold over 10 million albums worldwide.

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Answer: Martina McBride

"Concrete Angel" is a song performed by Martina McBride and co-produced by McBride and Paul Worley. Composed by Rob Crosby and Stephanie Bentley, the song was released in 2002, featured on McBride's 2001 Greatest Hits album. The song went on to reach #5 on the country music charts.

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Answer: Life Thru a Lens

"Life Thru a Lens" was Robbie Williams' first album after splitting with the successful boy band Take That. It was released in the UK in 1997 and peaked on the UK charts at number 4. There was some dispute as to who conceived the song. Credits are given to Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers but Ray Hefferman, an Irishman, Robbie met in a Dublin pub in 1996 claims that the original idea for the song came from him. Ray Hefferman received a waiver fee of around £7,500 a meager amount considering the success of the song.

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Answer: Bad Company

Released in 1979, Paul Rogers revealed that the album's title came from the novel of the same name by Jack Kerouac. The album contains the hit "Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy".

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Answer: The Cry of Love

"Angel" was released posthumously in 1971 as a single to promote the album "The Cry of Love". The album reached number 2 in the US and number 3 in the UK, but the single never got higher than 59 in the US.

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Answer: Exile on Main St.

"Sweet Black Angel" was a song written about Angela Davies who was a civil rights activist linked with the Black Panthers, facing charges of murder. The wording of the song tells the story and support of her by Mick Jagger and was recorded 1971/2.
A story about the campaign to free her was written by Sol Stern and printed in "The New York Times" June 27, 1971. Also a story of the acquittal by Earl Caldwell was published in "The New York Times" on June 5, 1972.

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Answer: Emily Rossum

Miranda Richardson played the part of Madam Geery.
Sarah Brightman played Christina in the original London Stage production.
Minnie Driver played the part of Carlotta.

The original stage version of the musical "Phantom of the Opera" was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and opened in London in 1986. As of 2010 it is in its 24th year. In 1988 it won seven "Tony" awards. It was subsequently made into a 2004 movie directed by Joel Schumacher.

The song is sung by Christina who has been coached by "The Angel of Music," she believes it is the spirit of her dead father but in reality it is the Phantom who "haunts" the opera house and is obsessed about by Christina.

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Answer: False

"Angel" was written by The Corrs and a totally different song. It was a track on their fourth album "Borrowed Heaven". Sarah McLachlan's "Angel" was written after reading of the death, by drug overdose, of the Smashing Pumpkins keyboard player Jonathon Melvoin.

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Answer: Tavares

Tavares consisted of five brothers from Massachusetts. The line-up consisted of Ralph, Antone, Feliciano, Arthur and Perry. The family group won a Grammy for their musical version of "More Than a Woman," from the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack.

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