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1. The song "Mohammed's Radio" is from this late singer/songwriter's second album, recorded in 1975. According to the liner notes on his 1996 anthology album "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" the song was inspired by his seeing a mentally challenged man on Halloween dressed as an Arab with a radio to his ear. Who is this artist?
2. From their 1978 album titled "Holiday Album" came the song "The Radio Stars" by what English new wave group?
3. Guess who recorded "Clap for the Wolfman" an homage to the famous disc jockey Wolfman Jack? That's right, The Guess Who. What was Wolfman Jack's real name?
4. They were one of the major country music duos of the 1930s, called "The Sweethearts of Country Music" and recorded the song "Turn Your Radio On."
5. The song "Radio Cure" is by the alternative country band Wilco. Where does their name Wilco come from?
6. "I was making my way through the wasteland
The road into town passes through
I was changing the radio stations
With my mind on you."
This song, "Song On The Radio" is from the 1978 album "Time Passages" by whom?
7. From whose 2004 album "Harmonium" comes the song "Private Radio"?
"When the night comes
And no one knows
I can feel it
I've got my private radio."
8. "Boys On The Radio" by the group Hole:
"Oh the boys on the radio
They crash and burn
They fold and fade so slow
In your endless summer night"
Who is Hole's lead singer?
9. The title of the song "C.L.A." by Toronto rapper k-os has a double meaning. For one thing it stands for the call letters on the Los Angeles radio station he listened to while he worked on the album in L.A.--station KCLA. And on the other hand, according to Songfacts.com, it also stands for what?
10. This British punk rock band has not one, not two, but three songs about the radio. Two of them are "Capital Radio One" which is the original version released in 1977, and and updated version called "Capital Radio Two" for their 1979 album "Super Black Market Clash."
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