Music Chain Trivia Quiz

Answer: P.S. I Love You

Each member of the Beatles went on to have successful solo careers and recorded songs with other artists. On Ringo Starr's album 'Verticle Man' the title track features Ozzy Osbourne on vocals.

Answer: Lita Ford

Ozzy was, of course, the original lead singer with Black Sabbath.

Answer: Alan Freeman

Freeman's nickname was Fluff and he was one of the few DJ's to play Sabbath's records on the radio. In 1979 Ozzy Osbourne was replaced on vocals by Ronnie James Dio who had previously sung with Rainbow.

Answer: Still I'm Sad

Rainbow's guitarist and undisputed leader, Ritchie Blackmore, had previously been in Deep Purple.

Answer: True

In 1972 Deep Purple recorded what became probably their best known song, 'Smoke on the Water', which told the tale of a hotel fire during the recording of the album 'Machine Head'. In the song they mention another band affected by the fire who also wrote a song about it, Frank Zappa and the Mothers.

Answer: Hot Rats

Frank Zappa has had hundreds of musicians in his various backing bands. In 1980 Steve Vai joined Zappa's band.

Answer: Joe Satriani

In 1984 Steve Vai appeared in, and played both guitar parts in the duel scene from, Walter Hill's film 'Crossroads'. Unfortunately Vai's playing doesn't appear on the soundtrack album. All the music on that, as it was in the rest of the film, is played by Ry Cooder.

Answer: Little Village

Ry Cooder was asked to join the Rolling Stones after the death of Brian Jones but turned it down. He did appear on their 'Let It Bleed' album as guest guitarist.

Answer: William Perks

In December 1974 Mick Taylor, who had replaced Brian Jones, left the band and was replaced by Ron Wood who had previously been a member of the Faces.

Answer: True

In 1973 original member Ronnie Lane left the Faces to go solo and was replaced by Tetsu Yamauchi who had previously been in Free.

Answer: Alexis Korner

After Free split up, Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke went on to form Bad Company, and later Paul Rodgers teamed up with Jimmy Page in the Firm.

Answer: You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling

The other members of the Firm were Tony Franklin and Chris Slade. Chris Slade was a former member of Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

Answer: Bruce Springsteen

In mid 1978 Manfred Mann's Earth Band split up and reformed less than six months later with a different line-up, which included drummer Geoff Britton who had previously been in Wings.

Answer: Crossroads

Paul McCartney's right hand man in Wings was Denny Laine who was a founder member of the Moody Blues.

Answer: True

In 1979 founder member Mike Pinder left the Moody Blues and his place was taken by Patrick Moraz, who has previously been in Yes.

Answer: Fragile

In 1979 Yes shocked fans by replacing Rick Wakeman and Jon Anderson with Geoff Downes and Trevor Horn, who had been recording under the name Buggles. Trevor Horn soon decided he wasn't really a singer and turned to producing instead, one of the many bands he produced and made famous was Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

Answer: Relax

Released in October 1983, "Relax" was banned from the BBC in early 1984 after a disc jockey noticed its salacious cover art and suggestive lyrics.

In 1986 Frankie Goes to Hollywood issued a single called 'Warriors of the Wasteland'. Many different mixes of the song were issued, one of which was a 'metal mix' which featured Gary Moore on guitar.

Answer: B. B. King

During the mid 1970's Gary Moore was a member of Irish rockers Thin Lizzy.

Answer: Midge Ure

Thin Lizzy had many guitarists during their career. One of them, Brian Robertson, spent a short period of time in Motorhead.

Answer: False

He was actually a roadie for Jimi Hendrix. Before forming Motorhead, Lemmy was the bass guitarist with Hawkwind.

Answer: Michael Moorcock

Hawkwind's line-up changed almost every year. In 1980 legendary drummer Ginger Baker joined the band for less than a year and one album, Baker also guested as drummer on Public Image Ltd's 'Album'.

Answer: Tokyo

The enigmatic leader of Public Image Ltd was John Lydon, who was better known as Johnny Rotten when he was in the Sex Pistols.

Answer: Drums

Both original Sex Pistols bass guitarist, Glen Matlock, and Lead guitarist, Steve Jones, have played in backing bands for Iggy Pop.

Answer: Repo Man

Iggy Pop's career was resurrected in 1977 by David Bowie, who produced and played on Iggy's debut solo album.

Answer: Heroes

On David Bowie's 1975 album 'Young Americans', he had two guest backing vocalists. One was Luther Vandross and the other was John Lennon, who was, of course, a member of the Beatles.