Oh, What a Night! Trivia Quiz

Answer: REM

REM's hauntingly beautiful song, 'Nightswimming' is a nostalgic trip back to lead singer Michael Stipe's childhood spent in Athens, Georgia.

Released in 1993, the song was taken from the band's eighth album, 'Automatic For the People' - an international success, selling in excess of 18 million copies.

Answer: Patti Smith

Co-written by Patti Smith and 'The Boss' himself, Bruce Springsteen, 'Because the Night' was first released in 1978 as a single from the Patti Smith Group album, 'Easter'.

A time-honoured crowd pleaser, this song has been covered on numerous occasions by an eclectic group of artists and bands including Garbage, Kim Wilde, U2, Sonic Youth and 10,000 Maniacs.

Answer: David Bowie

Performed by the late, great, David Bowie, 'Miracle Goodnight' is from his album 'Black Tie White Noise'. Released as the third single from the album in October 1993, the track is a self-confessed love letter to his wife, the model Iman Abdulmajid.

Answer: Cyndi Lauper

Written by American songwriters Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, 'I Drove all Night' was recorded by Cyndi Lauper for her third solo album, 'A Night To Remember', in 1989. Although it was originally written for 'The Big O', Roy Orbison, he didn't release his rendition until 1992, even though he recorded it in 1987.

Answer: Elvis Presley

Written by Dave Bartholomew, Dave King and Anita Steinman, and recorded in 1957 - a year before Elvis joined the army - 'One Night' is also known as 'One Night of Sin', as a nod to the original, more suggestive lyrics.

In January 2005, 'One Night' was re-released in the UK to commemorate the 'King''s 70th birthday anniversary, and made history by becoming the UK's 1000th number one single.

Answer: The Kinks

This song, released in 1964, was written by The Kinks' frontman, Ray Davies. Taken from the album 'The Kinks Kronicles', Davies described this track as, "A neurotic song - youthful, obsessive and sexually possessive."

Comparisons were made between 'All Day and All of the Night' and the 1968 Doors track 'Hello I Love You.' According to Ray Davies, The Kinks' publisher was so incensed that he suggested suing The Doors, but Davies refused.

Answer: The Beatles

'A Hard Day's Night' was first heard on the film soundtrack of the same name in 1964 before being released in the UK as a single.

The quirky title came from an 'off the cuff' remark made by The Beatles' drummer, Ringo Starr, who explained, "We went to do a job, and we'd worked all day and we happened to work all night. I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said, "'It's been a hard day...' and I looked around and saw it was dark so I said, '...night!'"

Answer: Elton John

Elton's songwriting partner of over four decades, Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics to 'Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting', referring to it as his "first attempt to write a Rock 'n' Roll song that was totally English."

The song is from the album 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' which was released in 1973.

Answer: Bon Jovi

Taken from Bon Jovi's greatest hits album 'Cross Road' (1995),
'Someday I'll Be Saturday Night' is an optimistic look at life as seen by the song's protagonists - the homeless Jim, and Billie-Jean, a young prostitute - and their struggle for survival.

'Hey, man I'm alive I'm takin' each day and night at a time
I'm feelin' like a Monday but someday I'll be Saturday night'

Answer: Eagles

Written by Glenn Frey and Don Henley, 'One of These Nights' was the Eagles' second number one single in America, and the album of the same name went Platinum in Canada and the UK. This was Glen Frey's favourite Eagles song - he told the British journalist Piers Morgan that it was the track for which he would most like to be remembered.

Eagles founder Glen Frey died in New York City on January 18th, 2016 at the age of 67. Sadly, he lost his battle with a multitude of health issues (including pneumonia) whilst recovering from gastrointestinal tract surgery.