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1. Who was going to be a "Big Time Operator", back in the mid-Sixties?
2. "Just for one second, one glance upon your loom..." From whose pen and voice do these lyrics come?
3. In which film was the word "grotty" first used?
4. What did George Harrison say, when asked about a Beatles reunion and concert?
5. Which U.S. band blatantly stole a Chuck Berry tune, put different lyrics to it and had a hit with it, too? Name the band, the stole song and the title they made out of it.
6. Which singer/guitarist came out with lyrical gems like, "Deborah, Deborah, you look like a Zebra" and "You look like a car, you got a hubcap diamond star halo" and had a string of hits with such in the process? Name his band.
7. Of which song did Frank Sinatra say that it was "The best love song ever written"?
8. Who was the singer/keyboardist for the Spencer Davis Group?
9. Who came up with the name "Led Zeppelin"?
10. For which film was the song "Come and Get It" penned?
11. "Finished with my woman..." Name the song that has this opening line.
12. You could already call it a sort of rap thing, although it was recorded long before anyone had even heard the word, never mind the "music". It's a story, told Wild West style, of a love triangle between an undecided female and two males who have delivery jobs.
13. Who was the voice (and just about everything else) behind Boney M.?
14. Who was Dick Rowe?
15. What did quite a few narrow-minded fuddy-duddies think "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones was all about?
16. One title, two songs. One by David Bowie, the other by Chris Montez. Name it!
17. They called Donovan "The British Dylan", which was way off the mark, of course. However, it is not a prerequisite to be a Dylan to nevertheless come up with really great stuff, which Donovan did. He went by the name of Donovan, but what was his surname?
18. "Woolly Bully" was a mega hit for Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. Nothing unusual about that. But how is the band counted in at the beginning?
19. What was so remarkable about the "New York Mining Disaster 1941" by the Bee Gees?
20. Who were the two producers, who could virtually guarantee any band or artiste they signed to their record company a place in the Top Twenty, purely by virtue of the ultra-commercial songs they wrote for them?
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