British Place Names in Music Trivia Quiz

Answer: Belsize Park

"Do you remember barefoot on the lawn with shooting stars
Do you remember loving on the floor in BELSIZE PARK
Do you remember dancing in stilettos in the snow
Do you remember you never understood I had to go
By the way, didn't I break your heart"

Lead singer Fish (real name Derek Dick) left the band in 1988 to go solo. I last saw him in May 2016 guesting at "Concert at the Kings" in Wiltshire on the day that Hibernian won the Scottish FA Cup for the first time in 104 years - being a Hibs supporter he was a little the worse for wear when he came on stage!

Answer: Kent

"He's the hairy handed gent, who ran amok in KENT
Lately he's been overheard in Mayfair
You better stay away from him
He'll rip your lungs out Jim
Huh, I'd like to meet his tailor"

It's a great shame that Zevon and his co-writers chickened out when writing the song by changing Ho Lee Fook, the brilliant name of the famous Chinese restaurant in Chelsea's King's Road, to Lee Ho Fook's !

Answer: Loch Maree

"And it's up by the Shin, and up by the Naver
And the long winding road of LOCH MAREE
By Ben Hope and Ben Loyal, by Stark and by Arkle
The road reaches long now the summer is here"

Probably the finest band to ever come out of Scotland and definitely the only one to have generated two parliamentary candidates, one successful (Pete Wishart - MP for Perth and North Perthshire since 2001) and one not (Donnie Munro).

Answer: Southampton

"Standing in the dock at SOUTHAMPTON, trying to get to Holland or France
The man in the mac said, "You've got to go back", you know they didn't even give us a chance."

Released in 1969 this was The Beatles' last UK number one.

Answer: Dorking

"From Rochdale to Ocho Rios
From Ocho Rios to DORKING
From DORKING it's back to Rochdale
From Rochdale to Ocho Rios"

The song is from 10cc's sixth studio album "Bloody Tourists" released in 1978 and is about the constant travelling from home to recording studios.

Answer: Cullercoats

"And now I'm searching through these carousels and the carnival arcades
Searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades
In any shooting gallery where promises are made
To Rockaway, Rockaway from CULLERCOATS and Whitley Bay out to Rockaway"

One of Dire Straits' best songs, about the famous Spanish City amusement park (now sadly long gone) in Whitley Bay, one stop on the Metro from Cullercoats.

Answer: The Norfolk Broads

"See the mice in their million hordes, from Ibiza to THE NORFOLK BROADS
Rule Britannia is out of bounds, to my mother, my dog, and clowns"

Answer: Belsize Park

"Oh, you shouldn't have kissed me and got me so excited
And when you asked me out I really was delighted
So we went to a pub in BELSIZE PARK
And we cheered on England as the sky grew dark."

One of Britain's finest singer/songwriters, Kirsty was unlawfully killed in 2000 while diving with her sons in a designated diving area off the Mexican coast by a speedboat which was illegally in the restricted area; the boat was owned and was allegedly being driven at high speed by Guillermo González Nova, multimillionaire president of the Comercial Mexicana supermarket chain, who allegedly paid off one of his employees to say he was driving and take the rap.

Answer: Waterloo

"Me and me mum, and me dad and me gran, we're off to WATERLOO
Me and me mum and me dad and me gran, and a bucket of vindaloo."

"Vindaloo" was released in 1998 as party of the England campaign for the football World Cup, and was written and performed by comedian Keith Allen.

Answer: The Hebrides

"And I'm still dreaming of THE HEBRIDES, and I'm still leaning on the early years
And I can't help feeling it will always be, the story of the life inside of me."

Another great song from Runrig, title track of their 2016 album which they say will be their last studio album - fingers crossed they'll still keep touring!