Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs (376-400) Quiz

Answer: Paul Revere and the Raiders

The band was from the northwest US city of Portland, Oregon. The band had four huge years from 1966-1969 where only The Bealtes and The Rolling Stones outsold them in singles and had better radio airplay. The song was the band's public service announcement against drug use.

Answer: Bob Rock

Bob Rocks credits include producing albums by Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Cher, Veruca Salt and Skid Row to name a few.
Martin Birch produced the classic Iron Maiden release "Piece of Mind".
Ted Templeman produced all of the Van Halen releases featuring David Lee Roth.
Terry Brown is most associated with the Canadian band Rush. He was producer on their breakthrough album "Moving Pictures" as well as others.

Answer: Neil Young

Although the two songs have been classified as rivalrous, the Lynyrd Skynyrd members and Neil Young celebrated a tremendous respect for one another. Ronnie Van Zant even wore a Neil Young shirt on his last recording with the band, "Street Survivors" and has been rumored to even be buried in it.

Answer: Long Island, New York

American rockers, Blue Oyster Cult, had nearly cult-like following in the 1970s. Fans of "Saturday Night Live" may remember a skit with Christopher Walken demanding that he "needed more cowbell" during the recording of this song.
Thin Lizzy is a band from Dublin, Ireland.
Aerosmith is a band from Boston, Massachusetts.
Deep Purple was formed in Hertford, England way back in 1968.

Answer: Thirteen

The song writing team of Alex Chilton and Chris Bell never achieved accolades in the form of hit singles or radio airplay, but critically, they are well repsected as one of the better song writing duos of the 1970s. Big Star were formed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1971 and called it a day in 1975.

Answer: The Shangri-Las

According to "Rolling Stone" magazine, there is a music legend that a young 15 year old Billy Joel played piano on the track. The song was written by George "Shadow" Morton specifically for The Shangri-Las.

Answer: Blue Hawaii

Elvis Presley plays Chad Gates, a recent veteran from the Army looking for fun and excitement on the shores of Hawaii. The film cast Angela Lansbury as Elvis' mother with an unexpected southern-belle accent.

Answer: Summer in the City

New York rockers, The Lovin' Spoonful, took the hit "Summer in the City" to number one on the Billboard Pop Singles charts. That would be their only number one hit, although they did crack the top ten five other times.

Answer: O-o-h Child

The Five Stairsteps were formed in Chicago in 1965 by their police officer father and their mother. The group's name was derived because when the children stood in order of age, their height resembled a staircase. The group originally proclaimed themselves as "The First Family of Soul" well before The Jackson 5 did.

Answer: Band of Gold

Freda Payne was the sister of Scherrie Payne, who performed with the Supremes in their latter years. Freda was a very versatile performer who could sing, act and even had her own television talk show.
The song "B-A-B-Y" was recorded by Carla Thomas, "Just One Look" was by Doris Troy and "A Fool In Love" was by Ike and Tina Turner.

Answer: The Four Tops

One of the most remarkable things about The Four Tops is that they performed for over four decades with the same line-up. In a genre of music that has seen many groups come and go, change their line-up, break up and reform, it's incredible the longevity that this group from Chicago had.

It seems that only the passing away of group member Lawrence Payton in 1997 could alter the group line-up. With much soul searching the group hired a replacement so touring could continue, marking the only time that the group toured without the original members.

Answer: Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)

The Temptations were formed in Detroit in 1960 when two vocal groups consolidated into one. The groups, The Primes and The Distants, were appearing seperately in the Detroit area in the early 1960s. When The Primes disbanded, Otis Williams, who was performing as part of the The Distants, encouraged his group to recruit Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams into their group.

The rest is music history.

Answer: Outlandos d'Amour

The song was written by Sting as he strolled through Paris wondering what it would be like to be in love with a prostitute. If you have never seen Eddie Murphy's rendition of the song in the movie "48 Hours", then you're missing something quite funny.

Answer: Rick Wakeman

Rick Wakeman, of Yes fame, was recruited to perform the organ tracks on the song. The song was prominently featured in the great rock and roll movie, "Almost Famous".

Answer: Eric B. and Rakim

Eric B. (nee Eric Barrier) and Rakim (nee William Griffin Jr.) partnered together in New York City to become on of the most repsected MC/DJ combinations in the history of hip-hop music. James Brown should owe a debt of great gratitude to Eric B. for providing samples from his catalog to many hip-hop artists over the years.

Answer: Kent State University

On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard was attempting to control a peaceful demonstration protesting the invasion of Cambodia by US led troops. The National Guard members had little training in crowd control and soon found themselves backed into a corner. Shooting began, causes that led to the beginning of the shooting are still unknown, and nine second later between 61 and 67 shots had been fired, killing four students. Of the four killed, only one was attending the rally, the others were innocent bystanders. Allison Krause, Jeffrey Glen Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer and William Knox Schroeder all lost their life that day. Nine other students were wounded.

Answer: Help

This song appeared on The Beatles' fifth album, "Help!". The B-side of "Ticket To Ride" was the previously unreleased "Yes It Is". Of particular to many fans of heavy metal is John Lennon's claim that he and Paul had written one of the first heavy metal records ever.

In 1970, John stated: "That was one of the earliest heavy-metal records made. Paul's contribution was the way Ringo played the drums.". Many people would disagree that their song was even remotely related to heavy metal, but at the time, the relentless percussion and off-tempo melodies did have a certain difference that many metal acts have borrowed over the years.

Answer: Whipping Post

This song featured one of the most recognized bass lines of all times. The band's bassist, Berry Oakley sadly died in the same fashion as the band's founding member and guitar player, Duane Allman, a tragic motorcycle accident. He died roughly 13 months after Duane, just three blocks from the site that claimed Duane's life.

Answer: Mick Jagger-Keith Richards

There is an obscure album of reworked Rolling Stones songs titled "The Rolling Stones Songbook". The album featured Rolling Stones songs that were recorded, in no manner as the original, by a symphony. When Richard Ashcroft, lead singer of The Verve, had listened to the album, he was intrigued by the string arrangements on one of the songs titled "The Last Time".

The band incorporated that arrangement, but did not sample it, into the song. The copyright holders of the song contacted The Verve and said they would not issue clearance to use the arrangement unless The Rolling Stones received 100% of the songs royalties and were given primary songwriting credits.

The Verve had no choice but to consent. The song became one of the most profitable songs for The Rolling Stones in 20 years.

Answer: False

The song only reached number two on that chart, although it did reach number one on the Billbaord Black Singles chart that same year.
Aaron Neville is the New Orleans, Louisiana based singer who found fame, with his brothers, in the Neville Brothers.

Answer: 8

Elton John changed his name from Reginald Kenneth Dwight to Elton John in 1966. His name came from two musicians that he played with in an early band called Bluesology, sax player Elton Dean, and vocalist Long John Baldry.

Answer: A radio broadcast to "iron curtain" countries meant to promote democratic ideals to the Communist

Radio Free Europe was established, and paid for, by the US Congress to transmit propoganda into Communist bloc countries. The service was originally transmitted via short wave radio. The service started in 1950. Now, the service is distributed through AM/FM signals as well as satellite and internet. There is a website for Radio Free Europe at http://www.rferl.org/.

Answer: Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders

Chrissie Hynde, born in Dayton, OH, personally witnessed the shootings at Kent State University. Hynde is very active with PETA and is an advocate for ending animal cruelty.

Answer: Hit The Road Jack

Charles won his last Grammy in 1993. He won the Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male award for the song "A Song For You". In addition, he has won Grammy's for the songs "Georgia on my Mind", "I Can't Stop Loving You", "Busted", "Crying Time", "Living for the City" and "I'll Be Good to You".

Answer: The Bends

"Fake Plastic Trees" is from the band's second album "The Bends". Radiohead was formed in Oxford, England in 1989. The band has won two Grammy awards, both Best Alternative Music Performance awards for the "OK Computer" and "Kid A" albums.