Ipod Shuffle 27: 1980s Billboard Top 100 Part 2 Quiz

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1. 1980: Stevie Nicks wrote Fleetwood Mac's "Sara" after an affair ended badly with what member of the band?

Answer: Mick Fleetwood

In 1978, Stevie Nicks wrote "Sara" after she had began an affair with Mick Fleetwood while he was married to Jennie Boyd. While he was having an affair with Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood began an affair with Sara Recor, who was at the time married to record producer Jim Record. Ultimately Mick Fleetwood and Sara moved in together and eventually married. The song in demo format was over sixteen minutes and contained several additional verses.

Stevie Nicks was not angry at Sara, only Mick, and actually wrote the song with Sara at the piano.

In 1980, Carol Hinton sued Stevie Nicks on grounds of plagiarism, as Carol had written and submitted a song to Warner Bros. with similar lyrics. However, Nicks had recorded the song in demo format several months before Carol Hinton had submitted the song to the record company/

2. 1981: What band member of REO Speedwagon wrote the radio hit "Take It On The Run"?

Answer: Gary Richrath

Gary Richrath was REO Speedwagon's guitarist from 1970 to 1989, and wrote the majority of the material found on their twelve studio albums from this period.

The 1981 album "Hi Infidelity" features four Billboard Top 100 hits: Number One "Keep On Loving You", the Number Five "Take It on the Run", the Number Twenty "In Your Letter" , and the Number Twenty Four "Don't Let Him Go". The album stayed on the Billboard Top 200 charts for sixty five weeks. Thirty two of those weeks the album was in the Top Ten.

3. 1982: Sylvester Stallone requested Survivor write their smash single "Eye of the Tiger" after he was unable to obtain licensing rights to what song?

Answer: "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen

Beginning in July 1982, Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" went to Number One for six weeks. Originally Stallone wanted "Another One Bites the Dust", but Queen refused to license their work, which proved a huge career break for Survivor. The track won the Grammy award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group.

4. 1983: During Disney Land's 30th Anniversary Special in 1985, Donna Summer sang her 1983 hit "She Works Hard For the Money". Two Disney characters replaced the working women of the original video. The first was Cinderella. Who was the second?

Answer: Snow White

Summers released the single on the Mecury label as she had a contract dispute with her previous label Geffen. The song is about Brad Modelle, who lived in New York and was friends with Summers. The video to the single was the first video by an African-American female artist to enter heavy rotation on MTV.

5. 1984: Scandal's song "The Warrior" inspired what singer to became a musician?

Answer: Bj�rk

Bj�rk has cited "The Warrior" has one of her favorite songs, and also one that helped shape her decision to became a musician. The leader singer of Scandal is Patty Smythe. She has a hit with the 1992 duet "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" with former Eagles bandmember Don Henley.

6. 1985: According to Bryan Adams, his hit "Summer of '69" is actually a sexual innuendo and does not refer to the year 1969.

Answer: True

According to Bryan Adams, "Summer of '69" does not refer to a year at all, but is rather a sexual innuendo. However, according to Jimmy Vallance, the song's cowriter, that was not the original intent of the song. When they originally wrote the song, "Summer of '69" appeared only once, early in the lyric, and the track was entitled "Best Days of My Life".

When they realized "Summer of '69" made for a better title, they actually incorporated the phrase several more time in the main set of lyrics.

7. 1986: Eddie Money's hit "Take Me Home Tonight" features vocalist Ronnie Spector, who was the band member of what group?

Answer: The Ronettes

Ronnie Spector was the leader vocalist on the 1963 Phil Spector hit "Be My Baby" by The Ronnettes. During the chorus of "Take Me Home Tonight", Ronnie Spector sings the chorus to "Be My Baby".

8. 1987: Crowded House's single "Don't Dream It's Over" hit Number Two on the Billboard Top 100. What was Crowded House's only other single to break the American Top 40 in the 1980s?

Answer: Something So Strong

Crowded House released the followup "Something So Strong" to their hit single. "Don't Dream It's Over" has featured in numerous films and TVs, including "Miami Vice" and the 1994 adaption of the Stephen King novel "The Stand". "Something So Strong" was the final single from Crowd House's first album.

9. 1988: The music video to "Is This Love", Whitesnake's hit single, features Tawny Kitaen, who latter married David Coverdale, the lead singer of Whitesnake. What previous Whitesnake video did she also appear in?

Answer: Here I Go Again

There has been speculation that the song was originally written for Tina Turner. David Coverdale was the singer for Deep Purple. He also performed with Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page in the 1980s. In 1989 to 1991 Coverdale was married to Tawny Kitaen. After her divorce she remarried and had two daughters. In 2006 she was found with 15 grams of cocaine.

10. 1989: The Bangles had a hit with the single "Eternal Flame". The song was inspired by the eternal flame held in honor of what major historical figure?

Answer: Elvis Presley

The song was inspired by two eternal flames. The first was in a synagogue in Palm Springs California where Michael Steel attended as a child. The second eternal flame was for Elvis Presley, which the band saw at Presley's home Graceland.

Source: Author berenlazarus

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The follow up to my first 1980s quiz, this iPod installment features one song for each year of the 1980s that charted on the Billboard Top 100.

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