Ladies That Inspired Artists Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Beatles

The song was released in 1967, as part of the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". It was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. It was inspired by a drawing made by Lennon's son, Julian, depicting one of his nursery school classmates, Lucy O'Donnell (later Lucy Vooden).

However, upon its release, speculations arose that the song was a reference to the drug LSD, since the first letters of the nouns spell LSD. Both Lennon and McCartney repeatedly denied it.

Answer: The Rolling Stones

The song was released in 1973 in the album "Goats Head Soup". It was credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, despite the fact that most lyrics were written by Richards. There is much speculations as to who is the Angie referred to in the song. Some say it was Angela Bowie, David Bowie's first wife, others say it was actress Angela Dickinson and others say it was Keith Richards' newborn daughter, named Dandelion Angela.

Answer: Rod Stewart

The song was released in 1971, in the album 'Every Picture Tells a Story". Stewart said that the song, which is about a 16-year-old boy who has developed affections with an older woman, was inspired by his own experiences, particularly by the first woman he had sex with. He also said that he took the name Maggie May from a folk song of Liverpool about a prostitute.

Answer: Paul Anka

The song was released in 1957 as a single. In the same year, it was ranked number one in both the Australian and Canadian Singles Charts, as well as the UK Singles Chart, while in the US Billboard Hot 100 it was ranked number two. In the next year, Anka sang it again, this time in Italian, with Mario Panzeri having written the Italian lyrics.

Answer: Buddy Holly

The song was released in 1957 as a single. Buddy Holly did not write it alone, however, but with Jerry Allison and Norman Petty. The song was at first entitled "Cindy Lou" for Holly's niece but the title changed to 'Peggy Sue" for Allison's girlfriend and later wife.

By the time of the recording of the song, Allison and Peggy Sue was temporarily broken up. Buddy Holly later wrote a sequel with the name "Peggy Sue Got Married".

Answer: Tom Jones

The song was released in 1968 as a single. It belongs to the genre of the murder ballads, since it is about a man finding out about his girlfriend's infidelity and murdering her with a knife. In the 2005 film "Romance and Cigarettes", Christopher Walken's character, Cousin Bo, is seen humming the song while Jones' recording plays in a jukebox.

Answer: Kenny Rogers

The song was released in 1977 in the album "Kenny Rogers". In the same year, it reached number one in the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot Country Singles. It describes an unnamed narrator's visit to a bar in Toledo, Ohio, where he meets a woman named Lucille, who has abandoned her husband.

Initially, the narrator feels sympathy for her, but then the husband comes in the bar and expresses his sadness that Lucille abandoned him at such a difficult time, "with four hungry children and a crop in the field", as the song says. Subsequently, the narrator and Lucille go to a hotel room and she attempts to seduce him, but the husband's words come back to haunt the narrator, who does not respond to Lucille's advances.

Answer: Jeff Buckley

The song was released in 1994 in the album "Grace". It originated from an instrumental song named "Rise Up to Be", which was written by Gary Lucas, a partner of Buckley's. Buckley wrote the lyrics, having in his mind a time when he bid adieu to his girlfriend at the airport in a rainy day. Buckley later said about the song that "It's about not feeling so bad about your own mortality when you have true love."

Answer: Eric Clapton

The song was released in 1971, in the album "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs". Clapton did not record it alone, but with the band Derek and the Dominos. The song is based on the love story of Layla and Qays Ibn al-Mulawwah, who is later dubbed "Majnun", due to his obsession with Layla.

The story was known in Persia in as early as the 9th century AD and it inspired the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, who wrote the poem "Layla and Majnun". Ian Dallas (later to be known as Abdalqadir as-Sufi) had given a copy of this poem to Clapton, which inspired him to write the song.

Answer: Leonard Cohen

The song was released in 1967, in the album "Songs of Leonard Cohen". It is based on the close, but platonic, relationship between Cohen and Suzanne Verdal. As the song's lyrics indicate, Verdal often invited Cohen in her Montreal apartment, they enjoyed a cup of Constant Comment tea and then they would walk up to the church Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, where, before going to the sea, the sailors were given a blessing.