More Music Trivia from the Music Moguls Quiz

Answer: 20

"Tubular Bells" was released an May 25th, 1973, ten days after Oldfield's 20th birthday. It reached the Top 10 of the U.K. album chart. In the U.S., "Tubular Bells" garnered recognition as the haunting theme from the movie "The Exorcist".

Oldfield recorded the album in 1972 at the ripe old age of 19. He played over twenty different musical instruments (not at the same time; he wasn't quite that clever). A young entrepreneur named Richard Branson had more than a passing interest the album: it was the first to be released on Branson's label, Virgin Records.

Answer: Ankara, Turkey

Joe Strummer (birth name: John Graham Mellor) was born in Ankara, Turkey on August 21, 1952. His father was a foreign service diplomat for the British government. Joe Strummer died in his home in Somerset, U.K. on December 22, 2002, of an undiagnosed congenital heart defect.

The other three cities are mentioned in Clash songs. (Andalusia in "Spanish Bombs," Brixton in "The Guns of Brixton," and New York City in "Red Angel Dragnet.")

Answer: A woman buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery

The Allmans, long before they were ever remotely famous, used to go hang out in the Rose Hill Cemetery in their hometown of Macon, Georgia. They would go there to relax, chat and let their creative juices flow (writing songs and so on). A headstone that caught their eye every time was one marked "Elizabeth Reed." They never knew her, but nevertheless memorialized her in song.

Duane Allman and Berry Oakley were both killed in accidents and are now buried at Rose Hill. It is a tourist site for Allman fans who come to Macon, who have pictures taken of themselves standing beside the three graves.

Answer: Janis Joplin

This quote from legendary blues-rock singer Janis Joplin was allegedly uttered during an interview with a journalist from Rolling Stone magazine. Poor Janis did indeed die afterwards: on October 4, 1970, at the age of 27.

Answer: "Timothy" - Buoys

The song "Timothy" was written by Rupert Holmes, who is better known for his 1979 hit "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)". "Timothy" is about three miners trapped in a mine, two of whom resort to cannibalism to stay alive. Timothy is the name of the third unlucky miner who becomes dinner.

The song was banned or censored by many U.S. radio stations once they figured out what it was about. In response to this, a censored version of the song was released with edited lyrics. The ban actually helped boost the song's popularity: it reached #17 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1971.

It was the only hit for The Buoys.

Answer: Boston

Aerosmith was formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970. Their first gig was at Nipmuc Regional High School in Mendon, Massachusetts in the late fall of 1970. They signed a $125,000 deal with Columbia House Records in 1972 and went on to release a string of multi-platinum albums.

Their self-titled debut album was released in 1973, on which the song "Walkin' the Dog" was misprinted as "Walkin' the Dig."

Answer: Grace Slick

Grace Slick's birth name is Grace Barnett Wing. She was a lead singer for The Great Society and Jefferson Airplane in the 1960s, then Jefferson Starship and Starship in the 1970s and 1980s. Her first husband's name was Jerry Slick, and she kept his name throughout her career. She was a very controversial and outspoken figure in the 1960s counterculture and music scene.

Grace attended Finch College in the late 1950s, as did 37th U.S. President Richard Nixon's daughter, Patricia. In 1969, Grace received an invitation to an alumni tea party at the White House. Because she was known as Grace Wing in college, it somehow escaped the attention of the tea party organizers that she was now the infamous Grace Slick! She invited Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman to be her date, and they planned on spiking President Nixon's tea with LSD. Unfortunately for Slick and Hoffman, their little experiment was foiled by White House security personnel, who recognized them on sight and denied them admission to the party.

This story was told by Grace in her autobiography, "Somebody to Love? A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir", co-written by Andrea Cagan and published in the U.S. in 1998.

Answer: She

Besides French and English, Aznavour also sang this beautiful song in Italian, Spanish, and German. "She" was #1 on the UK Single Charts in 1974, making the then-50-year-old Aznavour the oldest living male to top the UK charts.

Answer: King Crimson

Boz Burrell joined King Crimson in 1971 as the band's lead vocalist, but soon after was given bass player duties as well. Not actually knowing how to play the bass did not appear to be a major problem for Boz, as he was taught personally by Robert Fripp, the band's lead guitarist. (By all accounts, he took to the instrument very quickly.) Boz became of member of Bad Company in 1973, and was responsible for writing "Gone Gone Gone" and "Rhythm Machine" for the "Desolation Angels" album. Boz passed away from a heart attack in September of 2006 at the age of 60.

Answer: Claude Nobs (Montreux Jazz Festival founder)

Claude Nobs (b.1936), along with Rene Langel and Geo Voumard, co-founded the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1967. The festival was first held at the Montreux Casino, which actually did burn down in 1971 as the result of a flare-gun accident ("Some stupid with a flare-gun burned the place to the ground") during a Frank Zappa concert. Nobs, who was fortunately attending the concert, was credited with saving the lives of several young people who were hiding in the casino in an attempt to escape the fire ("Funky Claude was running in and out, pulling kids out the ground."). Deep Purple, who were planning to record "Machine Head" at the casino, obviously had to move to another location ("We ended up at the Grand Hotel") , but all's well that ends well.

The song was written, the album was recorded, and the Rock 'n Roll world has been a better place ever since.