Musical Miscellany down Memory Lane Quiz

Answer: The Cavern Club

The Cavern Club remains one of the UK's most popular musical tourist attractions. Due to railway construction work, it was demolished and later rebuilt close to its original site. Great care was taken to retain the appearance of the original building as far as possible, even re-using many of the bricks.

Answer: Loretta Lynn

Born on 14 April 1934 in Kentucky, Loretta Lynn was indeed the daughter of a coal miner. She had an impoverished early childhood and married at the age of 13, having six children with her husband of nearly 50 years, who died in 1996. She came from a large family of eight children, her youngest sister being the singer Crystal Gayle.

Her autobiographical song entitled 'A Coal Miner's Daughter' (1969) was her most famous song and formed the basis for her 1976 autobiography and subsequently the 1980 film, which won Sissy Spacek an Academy Award for the Best Actress in a Leading Role. Loretta Lynn was still performing well into the 21st Century.

Answer: British

The band's founder, Gary Brooker, was honoured with an MBE in 2003 for his services to charity. 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' reached Number one in the UK charts, where it remained for six weeks. It also reached Number five in the US charts.

Answer: The Entertainer

'The Sting' won seven Academy Awards, including the award for Best Original Song Score and/or Adaptation for Marvin Hamlisch, who adapted Scott Joplin's 'The Entertainer' for the film. It greatly revived interest in the work of Joplin, who had died some years before, in 1917. He was known as the 'King of Ragtime'.

Answer: Vera Lynn

Dame Vera Lynn DBE was born in East Ham, London, in 1917. She earned her name of 'The Forces' Sweetheart' by touring abroad to perform at concerts for the troops during World War II. Her most famous song 'We'll Meet Again' was recorded in 1942 and became one of the most enduring songs of the time.

The compilation album 'We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn' was the Number one album in the UK in September 2009.

Answer: Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich

The group all came from Wiltshire, UK. Their last single, 'Staying With It' was released in 1983. Sadly, Dave Dee died of cancer in January 2009.

Answer: Way Down

Elvis had recorded 'Way Down' in October 1976. It was in the charts when he died and achieved the Number one position in the US Country charts and the UK charts shortly after his death. The other three choices were all hits from the 1960s.

Answer: Norway

The Eurovision Song Contest debuted in 1956. Prior to their 2009 victory Norway had won it twice, in 1985 and again in 1995.

Answer: True

Sir Cliff Richard OBE was born in India in 1940. His career began in the late 1950s. Widely regarded as one of the most popular singers ever, he won hundreds of awards over his long career. His first Number one in the UK was 'Living Doll', recorded with The Drifters (later to become Cliff Richard and The Shadows); a hit which was rereleased in 1986 with The Young Ones.

He represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest twice, with 'Congratulations' in 1968 and again in 1973 with 'Power to All Our Friends'.

Answer: I Just Called to Say I Love You

Stevie Wonder has won 25 Grammy Awards as well as the 1984 Academy Award and many other top accolades throughout his long and distinguished career which began in 1961 at the age of 11, when he signed with Motown Records (now Universal Motown), with whom he was still recording into the 21st Century.