1 Battles; Ian Williams. 2 I Am Kloot; ‘Over My Shoulder’. 3 Future Islands; Samuel T Herring. 4 Dan Auerbach; Patrick Carney. 5 ‘The horror (here) . . .’; Total Life Forever. 6 Under the Blacklight; The Elected. 7 ‘Post Break-Up Sex’; English Graffiti. 8 Lykke Li; Wounded Rhymes. 9 Michigan (he has since added only Illinois, saying that his earlier claim was a joke the music press took too seriously); Carrie & Lowell. 10 Poliça; Channy Leaneagh. 11 Klara and Johanna. 12 Lost in the Dream; An Ocean. 13 The Wave Pictures; Billy Childish. 14 Midlake; Antiphon. 15 Dave Grohl; Mark Lanegan.
16 Fat White Family; Mark E. Smith of the Fall (in ‘I Am Mark E Smith’). 17 Dry The River; ‘in the best way possible’. 18 ‘Munich’; ‘Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors’. 19 St Paul and the Broken Bones; Half the City. 20 Django Django; Born Under Saturn. 21 Band of Skulls; Diamonds and Pearls. 22 Christine and the Queens; Chaleur Humaine; the UK release has some songs re-sung in English and a couple of new English-language numbers. 23 War On Drugs; The Violators. 24 Frightened Rabbit; Painting of a Panic Attack. 25 Augustines; Rise Ye Sunken Ships. 26 Hozier; Sinéad O›Connor. 27 Depression Cherry; the band (all two of them) are from Baltimore, where The Wire is set. 28 Alabama Shakes; Boys & Girls. 29 Johnny Marr; Isaac Brock. 30 Beirut; trumpet.
1 Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; Dame Vera Lynn. 2 They are all on the cover of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which was designed and composed by the two artists. 3 ‘Eleanor Rigby’; ‘Yellow Submarine’. 4 Cellophane; marshmallow pies. 5 George Harrison wrote and sang them all; ‘Within You, Without You’ was also George’s. 6 Four thousand; it is a line from ‘A Day in the Life’. 7 Paul McCartney; The Beach Boys’ ‘California Girls’, whose chorus and lyrics it echoes. 8 Pepperland; the Little Blue Meanies. 9 Sir George Martin; piano and other keyboards. 10 Let It Be; on the roof of the Apple building in Savile Row, central London. 11 Richard Lester; A Hard Day’s Night. 12 ‘You’re Sixteen’ (it seemed innocent then, but not in this post-Yewtree age); Johnny Burnette. 13 They are the opening songs on their first eleven studio albums, so ‘Two of Us’ (from the twelfth, Let It Be) completes the set. 14 ‘It Don’t Come Easy’; The Concert for Bangladesh organised by George Harrison. 15 ‘When I’m Sixty-Four’; Vera, Chuck and Dave.
16 ‘Handle With Care’; Nelson Wilbury. 17 With the Beatles; Chuck Berry. 18 All Things Must Pass; ‘If Not For You’. 19 ‘You Really Got a Hold on Me’; ‘Dizzy Miss Lizzy’. 20 Dark Horse; ‘Got My Mind Set on You’. 21 ‘Penny Lane’; ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’. 22 Imagine and Double Fantasy. 23 Sitar; Ravi Shankar. 24 ‘Imagine’; ‘Jealous Guy’. 25 Revolver; 1966. 26 Gideon’s Bible; piggies. 27 John Lennon’s claim that the band had become ‘bigger than Jesus’. 28 ‘What’s That You’re Doing’ and ‘Ebony and Ivory’. 29 The Quarrymen were a Liverpool band started by John Lennon with school friends and later joined by Paul McCartney and George Harrison; Ringo Starr left Rory Storm and the Hurricanes to replace Pete Best in the Beatles. 30 Flaming Pie and New.
1 Rich Kids; Midge Ure. 2 Barenaked Ladies; ‘One Week’. 3 Thin Lizzy (Phil Lynott) and the Sex Pistols (Paul Cook and Steve Jones). 4 Innocent Man; Wrecking Ball. 5 She Works Hard for the Money; Musical Youth. 6 ‘Free Money’; Penetration. 7 Good Kid, m.A.A.d.; Jay Rock. 8 Bruno Mars; The Queen. 9 Marco Pirroni; ‘Made of Money’. 10 At the Sorbonne in Paris; (Let’s Make Lots of Money). 11 Mötley Crüe; Sex Pistols. 12 The Dark Side of the Moon; David Gilmour. 13 ‘Take the Money and Run’; they robbed a bank in El Paso. 14 A diamond ring; vocal harmonies. 15 Sting; Brothers in Arms.
16 ‘Material Girl’; Marilyn Monroe. 17 Dizzee Rascal; ‘Dirtee Cash’. 18 U2; Rolling Stones. 19 ‘Money Changes Everything’; The Brains: Gray was their singer. 20 ‘Money (That’s What I Want)’; Tamla Motown. 21 U2 and Elton John. 22 Mercedes Benz (the title of the song); a colour TV. 23 ‘Money Honey’; The Drifters. 24 Alice Cooper (when the name still meant the band, not the singer); ‘School’s Out’. 25 Cole Porter; Frank Sinatra. 26 Notorious B.I.G.; Puff Daddy. 27 Daryl Hall and John Oates. 28 50 Cent; Get Rich or Die Tryin’. 29 ‘Money’s Too Tight (To Mention)’; Frantic Elevators. 30 The rights to the Beatles song catalogue; Michael Jackson, who sold it in 2006 to offset his rising debts.
1 The Kinks; Something Else by the Kinks. 2 Simon and Garfunkel; Sounds of Silence. 3 Johnny Cash; Live at San Quentin 4 The Velvet Underground & Nico; The Velvet Underground & Nico. 5 The Beach Boys; Pet Sounds. 6 Them; The Angry Young Them. 7 Creedence Clearwater Revival; Green River. 8 Van Morrison; Astral Weeks. 9 Led Zeppelin; I. 10 Love; Forever Changes. 11 Isaac Hayes; Hot Buttered Soul. 12 Jefferson Airplane; Surrealistic Pillow. 13 Fairport Convention; Liege & Lief. 14 The Zombies; Odessey and Oracle. 15 The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band; Gorilla.
16 The Jimi Hendrix Experience; Electric Ladyland. 17 Phil Spector; A Christmas Gift For You. 18 The MC5; Kick Out the Jams. 19 The Mamas and the Papas; If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears. 20 The Beatles; Please Please Me. 21 Rolling Stones; Beggars’ Banquet. 22 The Monkees; More of the Monkees. 23 The Byrds; Fifth Dimension. 24 The Small Faces; Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake. 25 Aretha Franklin; Lady Soul. 26 Cream; Goodbye. 27 The Who; Tommy. 28 Otis Redding; Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul. 29 Leonard Cohen; Songs from a Room. 30 Dusty Springfield; A Girl Called Dusty.
1 Bill Haley and his Comets. 2 Lonnie Donegan; Van Morrison. 3 Johnny Kidd and the Pirates; Mick Green. 4 Roy Orbison; ‘Claudette’. 5 Hank Marvin; ‘Apache’. 6 Bo Diddley; ‘Who Do You Love?’ 7 Del Shannon; The Travelling Wilburys. 8 The Teddy Bears; Phil Spector. 9 ‘Cathy’s Clown’; Phil and Don. 10 ‘Johnny Remember Me’; ‘Telstar’. 11 ‘Lucille’; B.B. King – the story goes that it helped remind him of a foolish act as a young man, when he ran back into a burning building to retrieve his guitar. 12 ‘Peggy Sue’; She got married (in Holly’s song, ‘Peggy Sue Got Married’). 13 Johnny and the Hurricanes; ‘Red River Rock’. 14 ‘Johnnie Ray’; ‘Come On Eileen’. 15 ‘Sweet Little Sixteen’; ‘My Ding-a-Ling’.
16 Loads of Elvis-stamped letters were sent to fictitious addresses in the hope that the mail service would stamp them ‘return to sender’. 17 ‘An American Trilogy’; the American Civil War. 18 ‘Jailhouse Rock’; it was the thousandth UK number one. 19 ‘All Shook Up’; ‘Jailhouse Rock’. 20 RCA Victor; Colonel Tom Parker. 21 ‘A Little Less Conversation’; Ocean’s Eleven. 22 Love Me Tender; Hawaii – it was screened as Aloha from Hawaii! 23 ‘My Way’; Paul Anka. 24 G.I. Blues and Blue Hawaii. 25 ‘Way Down’; ‘The Wonder of You’. 26 Dire Straits; On Every Street. 27 ‘Elvis has left the building . . .’ (in Zappa’s case ‘just left the building’); Tiny Tim released ‘I Saw Mr Presley Tiptoeing Through the Tulips’. 28 Marc Cohn; Cher. 29 A chip shop (‘There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis’; ‘A New England’. 30 George Michael; Lennon.
1 China Crisis. 2 Teenage Fanclub. 3 Mink Deville. 4 Paris (‘Une Nuit a Paris’). 5 Siamese Dream. 6 ‘Warszawa’ (Warsaw). 7 Mozambique. 8 ‘One Night in Bangkok’. 9 Toto. 10 ‘Cuba’. 11 Alphaville. 12 The Mamas & the Papas. 13 The band’s first hit was ‘Native New Yorker’. 14 They were ‘Going Back to My Roots’. 15 ‘Spanish Harlem’ (aka East Harlem). 16 San Francisco. 17 ‘Berlin Got Blurry’. 18 ‘I’m in Love with a German Film Star’. 19 The album title is Around the World in a Day. 20 ‘Holiday in Cambodia’. 21 ‘The Lebanon’. 22 Super Furry Animals. 23 ‘Vienna’ by Ultravox. 24 ‘All Around the World’. 25 ‘Massachusetts’. 26 Supergrass. 27 ‘Budapest’. 28 The Ramones. 29 Swedish House Mafia. 30 David Bowie. 31 Andorra. 32 ‘Australia’. 33 ‘Bloodbuzz Ohio’. 34 The Stranglers, on ‘Goodbye Toulouse’, ‘Dagenham Dave’, ‘Sweden’ and ‘Dead Loss Angeles’. 35 Boards of Canada. 36 ‘Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)’. 37 To the 5 Boroughs. 38 ‘Mambo Italiano’. 39 Be Here Now. 40 ‘Paris, Munich’.
1 Kajagoogoo. 2 Silversun Pickups. 3 The Blue Nile. 4 Shalamar. 5 Nine Black Alps. 6 Kasabian. 7 Gerry and the Pacemakers. 8 Alt-J. 9 Everything Everything. 10 The Mission. 11 Best Coast. 12 The Ting Tings.13 Blue Oyster Cult. 14 Maximo Park. 15 Royal Blood. 16 Scorpions. 17 Stornoway. 18 The Four Tops. 19 The Tourists. 20 Imagine Dragons. 21 War On Drugs. 22 The Dead Kennedys. 23 Weezer. 24 The Lighthouse Family. 25 Steel Pulse. 26 My Bloody Valentine. 27 A Certain Ratio. 28 Supertramp. 29 Powderfinger. 30 Fat White Family,
31 Odyssey. 32 Stereo MCs. 33 The Cramps. 34 Manfred Mann (not Manfred Mann’s Earthband, which came later and had a different line-up). 35 The Saw Doctors. 36 The Crickets (Buddy Holly’s band). 37 Freddie and the Dreamers. 38 Stone Temple Pilots. 39 Temples. 40 Colin Blunstone (formerly of the Zombies). 41 Hurricane #1. 42 Calexico. 43 The Levellers. 44 Westlife. 45 Reef. 46 Aztec Camera. 47 Saint Etienne. 48 Glasvegas. 49 The Lumineers. 50 Kitchens of Distinction. 51 Drive-By Truckers. 52 Doves. 53 Go West. 54 London Grammar. 55 Wild Beasts. 56 The Cars. 57 The Temper Trap. 58 The Au Pairs. 59 Spear of Destiny. 60 The Leisure Society,
1 Simon Bates; Classic FM. 2 Fun Lovin’ Criminals; Huey Morgan. 3 Radio Luxembourg; 208 MW. 4 ‘The Riverboat Song’; Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush. 5 Zoë Ball; she presents It Takes Two, having previously competed on Strictly Come Dancing. 6 Alan Freeman; Pick of the Pops. 7 Xfm; Johnny Vaughan. 8 Kenny Everett; Captain Kremmen. 9 Manchester; Damon Albarn. 10 The Old Grey Whistle Test; country and Americana music. 11 Terry Wogan; Lynn Bowles. 12 Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (Swap Shop is an acceptable answer); he resigned after Michael Lush died while rehearsing a stunt for the show. 13 Sara Cox; Comedy Dave (Dave Vitty). 14 Matt Everitt; Menswear. 15 Nick Grimshaw; The One Show.
16 Capital Gold; Jonathan Pearce, who presented Capital Gold Sportstime. 17 Tony Blackburn; I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here!. 18 Charlie Gillett; The Sound of the City. 19 Annie Nightingale; The Old Grey Whistle Test. 20 Gilles Peterson, Worldwide. 21 Heart FM; Emma Bunton. 22 MV Fredericia became MC Caroline, the host ship of Radio Caroline; it was named after Caroline Kennedy, John F Kennedy’s daughter. 23 Steve Wright, who has hosted shows called Steve Wright in the Afternoon on BBC Radios 1 and 2; Mr Angry was purportedly from Purley. 24 Marc Riley; The Fall. 25 Mark Lamarr; Never Mind the Buzzcocks. 26 John Peel; Bob Harris. 27 Jo Whiley; Simon Mayo. 28 Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, for Harry Enfield’s Television Programme. 29 Scott Mills; Mark Chapman (‘Chappers’). 30 Paul Gambaccini; America’s Greatest Hits.
1 Edgar Allan Poe; Julian Schnabel. 2 Max’s Kansas City, a New York nightclub; ‘I’m Waiting for the Man’. 3 Tom Tom Club; a cover of the Velvet Underground song ‘Femme Fatale’. 4 Jesse Jackson and Pope John Paul II (identified simply as ‘Pontiff’). 5 The 9/11 attacks; ‘Laurie’ is Laurie Anderson, Reed’s wife. 6 Delmore Schwartz; Andy Warhol, who died in 1987. 7 A version of the song featuring numerous guest singers was used on a video designed to showcase the diversity of the BBC’s music coverage; Trainspotting. 8 ‘Sweet Jane’; Mott the Hoople. 9 Metal Machine Music; The Creation of the Universe. 10 ‘Sister Ray’, sometimes referred to as the source of the ‘shoegaze’ scene; White Light/White Heat. 11 NYC Man; ‘Satellite of Love’. 12 Maureen ‘Mo’ Tucker; it was the first time since the break-up of the Velvet Underground that Tucker, Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison had appeared on record together. 13 Ecstasy; Fernando Saunders. 14 Street Hassle; Bruce Springsteen. 15 ‘Heroin’ appears on the first Velvet Underground album, while ‘Sex with Your Parents’ features on Set the Twilight Reeling.
16 ‘Like a bird on the wire; ‘Bird on the Wire’ features on Songs from a Room. 17 Kicking Against the Pricks; ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’. 18 Mick Harvey; Barry Adamson. 19 Harvest; a moon – in 1992, Young released Harvest Moon, a follow-up of sorts to Harvest. 20 ‘Heart of Gold’; ‘ . . . And I’m getting old’. 21 ‘Famous Blue Raincoat’; ‘Joan of Arc’. 22 Americana; ‘God Save the Queen’. 23 Abattoir Blues and The Lyre of Orpheus. 24 ‘Hallelujah’; Various Positions. 25 The Proposition; 20,000 Days on Earth. 26 Natural Born Killers; the Berlin Wall. 27 Living with War; ‘Let’s Impeach the President’. 28 Old Ideas; Popular Problems. 29 The Boys Next Door; Grinderman. 30 They’re all Neil Young live albums; Arc.
1 Breaking Glass; ‘Will You?’. 2 ‘Is Vic There?’ Department S was a sixties TV spy show. 3 Creedence Clearwater Revival; John Fogerty. 4 Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? ‘The View from the Afternoon’. 5 ‘Life On Mars?’ and ‘Where Are We Now?’. 6 ‘The Boy With the Arab Strap’; Isobel Campbell. 7 Oasis, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?; Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill. 8 Paul Young; David Bowie. 9 The Moody Blues; Justin Hayward. 10 ‘Do You Know the Way to San Jose?’; Dionne Warwick. 11 Who’s Next and Who Are You. 12 ‘Who Am I? (What’s My Name?). 13 Edward Tudor-Pole; Nobody — it was Bambi’s mum who was killed by a hunter. 14 Jimmy Ruffin; 1966. 15 Elvis Costello and the Attractions; Brinsley Schwarz.
Bonus tracks
1 ‘What Do I Get?’ Therapy?. 2 Frankie Lymon (and the Teenagers); ‘Why do birds sing so gay?’ 3 Eurythmics; Madonna. 4 ‘How Soon is Now?’ Charmed. 5 ‘Is There Something I Should Know’; ‘The Reflex’. 6 The Bees; Isle of Wight. 7 ‘Will You Love Me Tomorrow?’; Tapestry. 8 I Am A Bird Now; Rufus Wainwright. 9 ‘Where Did Our Love Go?’; David Ball. 10 ‘What Have I Done to Deserve This?’; Dusty Springfield. 11 ‘What’s a Girl To Do?’; Natasha Khan. 12 Drake; Robyn Rihanna Fenty. 13 ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’; The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. 14 Connie Francis; A Night in Casablanca. 15 ‘Does Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight)?’ ‘My Old Man’s a Dustman’.
1 Dillinger; the CB200 was his Honda motorcycle. 2 The I Threes; Bob Marley’s backing singers: Rita was his wife. 3 ‘Don’t worry ‘bout a thing, cause every little thing gonna be alright’. 4 ‘Don’t Turn Around’; Aswad is Arabic for black. 5 Bunny Wailer; Bob Marley. 6 Carlton and Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett; The Upsetters. 7 Burning Spear; a pre-war Jamaican politician and writer seen as a prophet by many Rastafarians. 8 ‘Young, Gifted and Black’ and ‘Pied Piper’. 9 Peter Tosh; Mick Jagger.10 The Lyceum; Babylon By Bus. 11 UB40 (Ali and Robin Campbell); Eddy Grant. 12 Bob Marley’s Legend; The Dark Side of the Moon. 13 Buju Banton; he is serving ten years for cocaine trafficking.14 Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer. 15 The Folkes Brothers; ‘Boombastic’.
16 Coventry; 2 Tone. 17 Dutty Rock; Sasha. 18 Burnin’; John Brown. 19 Chaka Demus & Pliers with ‘Twist & Shout’; ‘Tease Me’. 20 ‘Police and Thieves’; Junior Murvin. 21 Gregory Isaacs; The Cool Ruler. 22 Trenchtown; England. 23 ‘You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No)’; Rihanna. Penn originally released the song in the sixties in a much more basic, rocksteady style. 24 Prince Buster; All Stars. 25 Horace Andy; Massive Attack. 26 Uprising; Confrontation. 27 Finley Quaye; Edinburgh. 28 Trojan Records; skinheads. 29 The Paragons; John Holt. 30 Sun Is Shining; Soul Revolution.
1 ‘Maria’; Rage Against the Machine. 2 Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band; Thin Lizzy. 3 ‘Henrietta’; ‘Mistress Mabel’. 4 ‘Valerie’; Mark Ronson. 5 ‘Rhiannon’; ‘Sara’. 6 ‘Mary of the 4th Form’; ‘(I Never Loved) Eva Braun’. 7 ‘Jenny Was a Friend of Mine’; ‘Smile Like You Mean It’. 8 ‘Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)’; ‘Judy is a Punk’. 9 ‘Delilah’; the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. 10 ‘Suzanne’ and Marianne (on ‘So Long, Marianne’). 11 ‘Charlotte Sometimes’; ‘Charlotte the Harlot’. 12 ‘Geraldine’; ‘Euphoria, Take My Hand’. 13 Barry Manilow; Westlife. 14 Paolo Nutini and Robbie Williams. 15 Hot Chocolate; ‘Grace Kelly’.
16 ‘Gloria’ and ‘Iris (Hold Me Close)’. 17 Caroline, in ‘Sweet Caroline’ by Neil Diamond and ‘Caroline’ by Status Quo; ‘Cracklin’ Rosie’. 18 ‘Mustang Sally’; ‘Lay Down, Sally’. 19 Terrorvision; Smokie. 20 ‘Lucille’; ‘four hungry children and a crop in the field’. 21 Sham 69, ‘Hurry Up Harry’; the Stranglers, ‘(Don’t Bring) Harry’. 22 Charlie Brown; Mylo Xyloto. 23 Elton John; Bat for Lashes. 24 Jack and Diane; John Mellencamp. 25 Chuck Berry; Palma Violets. 26 ‘A Boy Named Sue’; it was recorded live at San Quentin State Prison. 27 Abba and the Brotherhood of Man. 28 The Undertones; Green Day on American Idiot. 29 ‘Jackie’; ‘Jackie Wilson Said (I’m in Heaven When You Smile)’. 30 Robert Palmer; Bryan Ferry.
1 Peter Green; Bob Welch. 2 Paul Rodgers; The Cosmos Rocks. 3 ‘Exogenesis’; ‘Uprising’. 4 The Valley, home of Charlton Athletic FC; the 1976 show entered The Guinness Book of World Records as the loudest concert in history. 5 ‘Helter Skelter’; ‘Desire’. 6 Willie Dixon; ‘Bring it on Home’. 7 ‘I Can’t Explain’; ‘I’m a Boy’. 8 ‘Supermassive Black Hole’; ‘Knights of Cydonia’. 9 George Michael and Lisa Stansfield. 10 The Joshua Tree; Anton Corbijn. 11 ‘Kashmir’; ‘Achilles Last Stand’. 12 ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’; it was re-released as a tribute to Freddie Mercury following his death. 13 The Dance; Say You Will. 14 War; ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’. 15 The album is officially untitled, but is commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV; the album cover doesn’t contain the band’s name or writing of any sort, apparently Jimmy Page’s response to the ordinary reviews received by the band’s previous album.
16 ‘Love, Reign o’er Me’, subtitled ‘Pete’s Theme’, and ‘Bell Boy (Keith’s Theme)’. 17 Flash Gordon; Highlander. 18 Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. 19 ‘Stockholm Syndrome’; ‘Thoughts of a Dying Atheist’. 20 ‘Vertigo’ and ‘Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own’. 21 ‘The Song Remains the Same’; Physical Graffiti. 22 Mick Fleetwood, the drummer, and John McVie, the bass player. 23 Palestrina; ‘Feeling Good’. 24 Made in Heaven; Lake Geneva. 25 ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’ (CSI: Miami) and ‘Baba O’Riley’ (CSI: NY). 26 Passengers; ‘Miss Sarajevo’. 27 In Through the Out Door; Coda. 28 Size: the hits were ‘Big Love’ and ‘Little Lies’. 29 Showbiz; Mushroom Records. 30 Kenney Jones of the Faces; Zak Starkey, Ringo Starr’s son.
1 A founder member of Kraftwerk; “Heroes”. 2 Labyrinth; Pontius Pilate. 3 Lulu; Bowie himself. 4 He wanted something more glamorous and was fed up of confusion with Davy Jones, singer of the Monkees; from Jim Bowie, the American hero and pioneer of the knife that bears his name.5 He’d ‘shrug and ask to stay’; ‘she’d sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid’. 6 New York; Los Angeles. 7 John Lennon; Luther Vandross (the album was Young Americans). 8 His middle name, Zowie; Moon. 9 Doppelganger and Skeleton Men.10 Annie Lennox; Imam. 11 ‘China Girl’; Let’s Dance. 12 The Buddha of Suburbia; Hanif Kureishi.13 Blackstar; Best of Bowie, a 2002 compilation.14 ‘Starman’ (1972); ‘Blue Jean’ (1984). 15 Low and “Heroes”.
16 Bing Crosby; ‘Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth’ 17 Carlos Alomar; Robert Fripp. 18 Life On Mars; The Jean Genie. 19 Nile Rodgers; Stevie Ray Vaughan. 20 The Thin White Duke; ‘Wild is the Wind’. 21 Tin Machine; ‘Working Class Hero’. 22 ‘Space Oddity’ as Major Tom reappears; a Pierrot. 23 ‘Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere’ and ‘See Emily Play’. 24 ‘God Only Knows’; Tina Turner. 25 Black Tie, White Noise; ‘Where Are We Now?’. 26 Serious Moonlight; Glass Spider. 27 The Man Who Fell to Earth; Nicolas Roeg; 28 Hours; it was called ‘Thursday’s Child’ (Thursday’s Child has far to go, according to the old children’s rhyme); 29 Absolute Beginners; Patsy Kensit. 30 Dave Grohl; ‘Slow Burn’.
1 Altered Images; Texas. 2 Gary Jules; Tears for Fears. 3 Five Star; Silk and Steel. 4 ‘Stool Pigeon’; ‘Annie, I’m Not Your Daddy’. 5 ‘Fairytale of New York’; Kirsty MacColl. 6 ‘Super Trouper’; ‘The Visitors’. 7 ‘I Want to Know What Love Is’; Spooky Tooth. 8 Heaven 17; The Luxury Gap. 9 Prefab Sprout; From Langley Park to Memphis. 10 ‘Under Pressure’; Hot Space. 11 Ghost in the Machine; ‘Invisible Sun’. 12 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. 13 Dee C Lee; Wham!. 14 ‘Personal Jesus’; Johnny Cash. 15 ‘Stand and Deliver’ and the title track, ‘Prince Charming’.
Bonus track 1
1 T’Pau. 2 Ultravox. 3 Terence Trent D’Arby. 4 Nik Kershaw. 5 Paul Young. 6 The Thompson Twins. 7 Aztec Camera. 8 The Bangles. 9 Soft Cell. 10 Bronski Beat.
Bonus track 2
1 Aneka. 2 Feargal Sharkey. 3 Bros. 4 Shakin’ Stevens. 5 Falco. 6 Irene Cara. 7 Jim Diamond. 8 Phyllis Nelson. 9 Kylie Minogue. 10 Men at Work.
Bonus track 3
1 Belouis Some. 2 Robyn Hitchcock. 3 The Go-Betweens. 4 Sonic Youth. 5 XTC. 6 Nine Inch Nails. 7 JoBoxers. 8 The Cramps. 9 Bauhaus. 10 Johnny Hates Jazz.
1 A song by Crowded House. 2 Travis. 3 Donna Summer. 4 Cheryl Cole. 5 ‘Mr Blue Sky’. 6 ‘Did You Hear the Rain?’. 7 ‘Beautiful Day’. 8 5 Seconds of Summer. 9 ‘The Boys of Summer’. 10 The Kinks. 11 ‘It’s Raining Men’. 12 Geri Halliwell. 13 ‘Holidays in the Sun’. 14 Thunderclap Newman. 15 ‘Raining in My Heart’. 16 ‘In the Summertime’. 17 Eurythmics. 18 ‘The Sun Always Shines on TV’. 19 The Doors. 20 Vanilla Ice. 21 Weather Report. 22 Kate Bush. 23 T-Bone Walker. 24 Madonna. 25 Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons. 26 ‘The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore’. 27 Rainbow. 28 Nine Below Zero. 29 Status Quo. 30 ‘Walking on Sunshine’. 31 The Orb. 32 The Dead Weather. 33 ‘A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall’. 34 ‘Summer in the City’. 35 Graham Parker & the Rumour. 36 The Undertones. 37 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. 38 ‘Informer’. 39 ‘April Skies’. 40 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.
1 Polly Jean; Dorset (Bridport). 2 John Parish; A Woman a Man Walked By; Automatic Dlamini. 3 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Tricky. 4 Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea and Let England Shake. 5 A version of Bob Dylan’s ‘Highway 61 Revisited’. 6 He’s the drummer. 7 Thom Yorke; Mick Harvey. 8 ‘The Life and Death of Mr Badmouth’; ‘Cat on the Wall’; ‘The Darker Days of Me and Him’. 9 Flood; Linton Kwesi Johnson. 10 ‘What if I take my problem to the United Nations?’; ‘Summertime Blues’ by Eddie Cochran.
11 ‘Brass in Pocket’; ‘Stop Your Sobbing’. 12 Blue Öyster Cult; ‘Hey Joe’. 13 Wave; First Aid Kit. 14 Billy Bremner; Robbie McIntosh. 15 Arthur Rimbaud, a big influence on her work; CBGB. 16 ‘I’ll Stand by You’; Girls Aloud. 17 The Isle of View; they served as the string accompaniment. 18 Tom Verlaine; Horses. 19 Stockholm; John McEnroe. 20 ‘The Boy in the Bubble’; ‘Everybody Hurts’.
21 Ladytron. 22 Tilly & the Wall. 23 Wolf Alice. 24 Warpaint. 25 Evanescence. 26 Hole. 27 Bikini Kill. 28 Sleater-Kinney. 29 Babes in Toyland. 30 Veruca Salt.
1 The Smiths, Meat is Murder, The Queen is Dead and Strangeways, Here We Come. 2 Hatful of Hollow. 3 Mike Joyce, the drummer, and Andy Rourke, the bass player. 4 The Messenger and Playland. 5 He didn’t ‘have a stitch to wear’. 6 Sheila, in ‘Sheila Take a Bow’. 7 ‘That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore’; ‘Some Girls are Bigger than Others’. 8 Steven Patrick. 9 Cicely Courtneidge; 10 Derek Jarman. 11 ‘There Is a Light that Never Goes Out’; Trainspotting. 12 Vauxhall and I; Ringleader of the Tormentors. 13 ‘ . . . I’d like to smash every tooth in your head’; ‘Bigmouth Strikes Again’. 14 ‘Hand in Glove’; Sandie Shaw. 15 ‘The Last of the Famous International Playboys’; ‘November Spawned a Monster’; ‘You’re the One for Me, Fatty’; ‘The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get’.
16 The Blue Aeroplanes; he’s the group’s dancer. 17 Orange Juice; Edwyn Collins. 18 Grimes; Visions. 19 The Independent Music Chart; Spizzenergi’s ‘Where’s Captain Kirk?’ was the first song to top the new chart. 20 Echobelly; Everyone’s Got One. 21 Bobby Gillespie; Primal Scream. 22 High Land, Hard Rain; ‘Somewhere in My Heart’. 23 Everything but the Girl; ‘Missing’. 24 BEF (British Electric Foundation); Heaven 17. 25 Julian Cope; The Teardrop Explodes. 26 Albert Camus (L’Etranger); Disintegration. 27 Echo & the Bunnymen; Ian McCulloch. 28 The Virgin Prunes; Gavin Friday. 29 ‘I Wanna Be Adored’ and ‘She Bangs the Drums’. 30 The Auteurs; ‘Lenny Valentino’.
1 Quincy Jones; Michael Jackson (Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad). 2 George Benson; Breezin’. 3 Mary J Blige; George Michael. 4 Songs in the Key of Life; Duke Ellington. 5 Martin Luther King; ‘Abraham, Martin and John’. 6 ‘Sexual Healing’; Lionel Richie. 7 ‘Can’t Slow Down’; the Commodores. 8 ‘Nightshift’; Van Morrison. 9 Dexy’s Midnight Runners; Geno (about Geno Washington). 10 Blue-eyed soul; Simply Red. 11 ‘If You Don’t Know Me By Now’; Teddy Pendergrass. 12 Sam Cooke; ‘Wonderful World’. 13 ‘Louie Louie’; Otis Redding. 14 ‘(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay’; Booker T & the M.G.’s. 15 Ain’t No Sunshine; Michael Jackson – and so back to question 1.
16 Sam & Dave and Wilson Pickett. 17 Cody Chesnutt; The Roots. 18 Chairmen of the Board; General Johnson – it was, apparently, his given name. 19 Freda Payne; it was a Vietnam War protest. 20 K.C. of K.C. & the Sunshine Band; ‘Give It Up’. 21 They were all in Sly & The Family Stone; ‘Everyday People’. 22 The Isley Brothers. Family: the three older Isleys were acknowledging the influence of their younger siblings on the band. 23 Aretha Franklin; ‘Respect’. 24 Kool and the Gang; Atomic Kitten. 25 Billy Paul; Nike. Paul won. 26 Al Green, ‘Let’s Stay Together’. 27 Leon Bridges; Apple iPhone 6. 28 Jocelyn Brown; Right Said Fred. 29 ‘Boogie Nights’; Paul Thomas Anderson. 30 ‘War’. Absolutely nothing.
1 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway; Rael. 2 Hawkwind; Michaeal Moorcock. 3 The Doors; Ian Astbury from the Cult. 4 Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Keith Emerson was in the Nice, Greg Lake in King Crimson and Carl Palmer in Atomic Rooster. 5 Barclay James Harvest; ‘Mockingbird’. 6 Richard Wright; Roger Waters. 7 Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. 8 Tales of Topographic Oceans; Jon Anderson. 9 Jeff Wayne; Richard Burton. 10 Uriah Heep; David Copperfield. 11 Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett. 12 Vangelis (Papathanassiou) was the maestro; Demis Roussos.13 Brian Eno; he had produced three Talking Heads albums. 14 Fish; Marillion, 15 Jethro Tull; Thick as a Brick.
1. Emerson, Lake & Palmer; 20:40 (allow 20-23m). 2. Genesis; 23:01 (allow 22-25). 3. Marillion; 8.13 (allow 8-9). 4. The Doors; 11:41 (allow 10-12). 5. Iron Butterfly; 17:05 (allow 16-19). 6. Wishbone Ash; 9:42 (allow 9-11). 7. Spock’s Beard; 27:02 (allow 25-30). 8. Yes; 21:55 (allow 20-23). 9. King Crimson; 12:13 (allow 11-13). 10. Pink Floyd; 13:32 (allow 12-14). 11. Rush; 19:57 (allow 18-21). 12. Caravan; 22:43 (allow 20-24). 13. Savoy Brown; 9:15 (allow 8-10). 14. The Flower Kings; 31:01 (allow anything over 30m). 15. Jethro Tull; 8:58 (allow 8-10).
1 Songlines; Australian Aborigines. 2 Peter Gabriel; Real World. 3 Amadou & Mariam; Both are blind. 4 Staff Benda Bilili; Mbongwana Star. 5 Tango; Gotan Project. 6 Shakira is from Colombia, Wyclef Jean is from Haiti. 7 Tinariwen; Turaeg, i.e. Saharan desert nomads. 9 Buena Vista Social Club; Wim Wenders. 10 Gipsy Kings; they are gypsies from the south of France who sing in Andalusian Spanish. 11 Manu Chao; Paris. 12 Peter Gabriel; Youssou N’Dour. 13 Abraxas; he was the percussionist who supplied the distinctive congas and timbales. 14 Songhoy Blues; Mali. 15 Ladysmith Black Mambazo; Paul Simon.
16. Fela Kuti. 17. Gogol Bordello. 18. Yothu Yindi. 19. Sepultura. 20. Mariza. 21. Bhundu Boys. 22. Salif Keita. 23. Rodrigo y Gabriela. 24. Ernest Ranglin. 25. Cheikh Lo. 26. Shajarian. 27. Billy Ocean. 28. Raghu Dixit. 29. Nixlopi. 30. Heather Nova.
1 Seven; 50. 2 Jackie; Jermaine. 3 Rod Temperton; Lincolnshire. 4 Music & Me (1973); Forever, Michael (1975). 5 Princess Stéphanie of Monaco; ‘Irresistible’. 6 HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book 1: ‘Come Together’. 7 ‘You’re So Vain’ by Carly Simon – the full title was ‘Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)’; Carly Simon. 8 ‘Girlfriend’; ‘The Girl is Mine’. 9 Martin Scorsese; West Side Story. 10 The Notorious B.I.G.; ‘They Don’t Care About Us’. 11 (Tamla) Motown; Diana Ross. 12 ‘Tonight’s the Night’; ‘Big Yellow Taxi’. 13 24; five years. 14 Annie; ‘Dirty Diana’. 15 Blood on the Dance Floor (HIStory in the Mix); Nile Rodgers.
16 ‘One Day in Your Life’; Forever Michael. 17 Damita Jo; James DeBarge. 18 ‘I Want You Back’; The Corporation. 19 ‘Smooth Criminal’; Alien Ant Farm. 20 2009; Conrad Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. 21 John Landis; Vincent Price. 22 Marlon; La Toya. 23 ‘Show You the Way to Go’; Epic. 24 Bad; Katy Perry. 25 Elvis Presley; Debbie Rowe. 26 His sister Janet; R Kelly. 27 ‘Let’s Get Serious’; Iman. 28 Got to Be There; ‘Rockin’ Robin’. 29 ‘Black or White’; Macaulay Culkin. 30 Invincible; Xscape.
1 ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love’. 2 ‘Too Much Too Young’; ‘Ghost Town’. 3 Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon; Meat Loaf, Bat Out of Hell; Fleetwood Mac, Rumours. 4 Purple Rain; Under the Cherry Moon; Sign o’ the Times; Graffiti Bridge. 5 Rated R; Songs for the Deaf; Lullabies to Paralyze; Era Vulgaris; . . .Like Clockwork. 5a ‘You Wear It Well’; ‘Sailing’; ‘I Don’t Want To Talk About It’ (actually a double-A side with ‘The First Cut is the Deepest’, so accept either); ‘Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?’; ‘Baby Jane’. 6 Elvis Presley (21); The Beatles (17); Cliff Richard, Westlife (14); Madonna (13); Take That (12). 7 Spice Girls; All Saints; Eternal; Pussycat Dolls; Girls Aloud; Bananarama; Destiny’s Child. 8 ‘Love Action (I Believe in Love)’; ‘Open Your Heart’; ‘Don’t You Want Me’; ‘Being Boiled’ (it was originally released in 1978 and failed to chart but hit number six when re-released after ‘Don’t You Want Me)’; ‘Mirror Man’; ‘(Keep Feeling) Fascination’; ‘Human’; ‘Tell Me When’. 9 ‘Michelle’; ‘Eleanor (Rigby)’; ‘Lucy (in the Sky with Diamonds)’; ‘(Lovely) Rita’; ‘Julia’; ‘(Sexy) Sadie’; ‘Martha (my Dear)’; ‘(Polythene) Pam’; ‘(The Ballad of John and) Yoko’. 10 Movement; Power, Corruption & Lies; Low-Life; Brotherhood; Technique; Republic; Get Ready; Waiting for the Sirens’ Call; Lost Sirens; Music Complete.
1 Knebworth; Jason Bonham. 2 Latitude; Snow Patrol. 3 Creamfields; Cheshire. 4 T in the Park; Strathallan Castle. 5 Cornbury Music Festival; Cornbury Park is now the venue for the Wilderness Festival. 6 The state of New York; Ang Lee. 7 Woodstock – they covered the Joni Mitchell song of the same name; Fairport Convention. 8 Roskilde; a naked run, which is now so oversubscribed that there are qualifying runs beforehand. 9 Derek & the Dominoes and Arthur Lee & Love. 10 Altamont; the Rolling Stones. 11 Rock Werchter; TW Classic. 12 Jay Z; Kanye West. 13 The Big Feastival; Jamie Oliver. 14 Exit Festival; Sea Dance Festival. 15 135,000 (one point if within 5,000); Pilton. 16 Beyoncé in 2011 and Adele in 2016. Kylie Minogue was booked in 2005 but had to pull out. 17 Randalls Island, New York (just ‘New York’ is fine); it rained so hard that the venue was deemed unsafe and the event was cancelled. 18 The Glastonbury Festival; David Bowie. 19 End of the Road; Bella Union. 20 Lollapalooza; Santiago in Chile – the concept has since expanded to include Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and Bogotá.
Bonus track 1
1 Camp Bestival. 2 Truck. 3 WOMAD. 4 Lovebox. 5 Download. 6 Beautiful Days. 7 Bestival. 8 Meltdown. 9 Green Man. 10 The Great Escape.
Bonus track 2
1 Barcelona. 2 Byron Bay. 3 Iceland. 4 California. 5 Manchester. 6 Rajasthan. 7 Switzerland. 8 Austin. 9 Mexico. 10 The Nevada desert.
1 ‘Wannabe’; 1996. 2 ‘Eye of the Tiger’; ‘Burning Heart’. 3 ‘Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)’; ‘Voulez-Vous’. 4 They are the girls name-checked in the chorus of Lou Bega’s Mambo #5; Jessica. 5 The Fame Monster; ‘Bad Romance’. 6 ‘Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)’; ‘Thunder Road’. 7 ‘Beat It’; Eddie Van Halen. 8 Susan Ann Sulley; as a waitress in a cocktail bar. 9 A monster; The Automatic. 10 A cowboy and a construction worker. 11 Sunshine on Leith; Hibernian FC. 12 ‘Karma Chameleon’; red, gold and green. 13 ‘All About the Bass’; Title. 14 Crazy Frog; ‘Axel F’. 15 ‘Smoke on the Water’; Montreux.
16 ‘Can’t Get you Out of My Head’; Mud. 17 Baha Men; Rugrats in Paris. 18 ‘Call Me Maybe’; Canada. 19 Black Eyed Peas (‘My Humps’); ‘Pump It’. 20 Toni Basil; ‘Kitty’. 21 Boney M; ‘Brown Girl in the Ring’. 22 Kelly Clarkson; anything that doesn’t kill you – ‘Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)’ was the song. 23 ‘The Final Countdown’; Joey Tempest. 24 ‘Doctor Jones’ and ‘Turn Back Time’. 25 Chumbawamba; ‘Tubthumping’. 26 Blondie’s ‘One Way or Another’ and the Undertones’ ‘Teenage Kicks’. 27 Bucks Fizz; the two boys in the group pulled off the two girls’ skirts, to reveal more skirts. 28 ‘Seven Nation Army’; Jack White’s guitar played through an effects pedal. 29 ‘I Will Survive’; Gloria Gaynor. 30 Cheerleader; Simon Cowell
1 Public Image Ltd; Metal Box. 2 Elvis Costello and the Attractions; Armed Forces. 3 Joni Mitchell; Blue. 4 Madness; One Step Beyond. 5 Stevie Wonder; Songs in the Key of Life. 6 Steely Dan; Pretzel Logic. 7 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; Damn the Torpedoes. 8 Joy Division; Unknown Pleasures. 9 Curtis Mayfield; Superfly. 10 Bob Marley and the Wailers; Catch a Fire. 11 Paul Simon; Still Crazy After All These Years. 12 The Ruts; The Crack. 13 XTC; Drums and Wires. 14 Patti Smith; Easter. 15 The Stranglers; No More Heroes.
16 Neil Young; Harvest. 17 Talking Heads; Fear of Music. 18 Supertramp; Breakfast in America. 19 The Sensational Alex Harvey Band; Framed. 20 Paul McCartney and Wings; Band on the Run. 21 Blondie; Parallel Lines. 22 Led Zeppelin; Physical Graffiti. 23 The Cure; Three Imaginary Boys. 24 John Martyn; Solid Air. 25 Boomtown Rats; A Tonic for the Troops. 26 David Bowie; Station to Station. 27 Bruce Springsteen; Darkness on the Edge of Town. Roxy Music; For Your Pleasure. 29 Lou Reed; Berlin. 30 Electric Light Orchestra; Out of the Blue.
1 Studio 150; Gil Scott-Heron. 2 ‘In the Midnight Hour’; ‘Heat Wave’. 3 They were all written by bassist Bruce Foxton. 4 Playing ‘Little Boy Soldiers’; ‘The Eton Rifles’; ‘Smithers-Jones’. 5 Wormwood Scrubs; ‘Down in the Tube Station at Midnight’. 6 Entertainment: they’re among the things listed in ‘That’s Entertainment’. 7 ‘Going Underground’ (twinned with ‘Dreams of Children’), ‘Start!’, ‘Town Called Malice’ (twinned with ‘Precious’) and ‘Beat Surrender’. 8 ‘News of the World’; ‘Funeral Pyre’. 9 Fire and Skill; they’re the words inscribed on Weller’s guitar amp. 10 Stanley Road; it’s the street where he was brought up in Woking, Surrey; ‘You Do Something to Me’. 11 Our Favourite Shop; Lenny Henry. 12 Absolute Beginners. 13 Heavy Soul. 14 22 Dreams. 15 Heliocentric. 16 Wild Wood. 17 Sonik Kicks.
18 Alison Mosshart and Jack White. 19 Cerys Matthews; ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’. 20 They’re three of the cartoon characters that make up the band Gorillaz; the missing member is Noodle. 21 Neil Hannon; the Divine Comedy. 22 The Charlatans; Rob Collins, their keyboard player, was killed in a car crash. 23 Quentin Tarantino; ‘Swashbucklin’ in Brooklyn’. 24 Athlete; ‘Wires’. 25 I’m with Stupid; Magnolia. 26 Ocean Colour Scene; Paul Weller. 27 Speech Debelle and Young Fathers. 28 Texas; Sharleen Spiteri. 29 ‘Weak Become Heroes’; A Grand Don’t Come for Free. 30 ‘A Little Time’; Paul Heaton. 31 The Housemartins and Beats International. 32 Richard Ashcroft; the Verve.
1 One Scotch and one Beer. 2 ‘Itchycoo Park’. 3 Bowling for Soup. 4 James Taylor. 5 Oasis. 6 Wiz Khalifa. 7 The Who by Numbers. 8 JJ Cale. 9 Mary Coughlan. 10 Queens of the Stone Age. 11 Milk. 12 They ‘don’t do anything at all’, according to Jefferson Airplane’s ‘White Rabbit’. 13 Vodka and cider. 14 ‘Ebeneezer Goode’. 15 ‘Brass Monkey’. 16 ‘Eight Miles High’. 17 ‘Gin and Juice’. 18 Cypress Hill. 19 Kris Kristofferson. 20 The Notorious BIG. 21 ‘The Bartender and the Thief’. 22 Acid – they were Gaye Bykers on Acid. 23 Motörhead. 24 ‘Love Is the Drug’. 25 Whiskey for the Holy Ghost. 26 Plan B. 27 Status Quo. 28 Amy Winehouse. 29 ‘Lilac Wine’. 30 Canned Heat. 31 Sailor. 32 The Darkness. 33 ‘Mistletoe and Wine’. 34 Pulp. 35 Bruno Mars. 36 Plan B. 37 ‘Drinking from the Bottle’. 38 Black Sabbath. 39 Caro Emerald. 40 Placebo.
1 ‘Low Rider’; Cheech & Chong. 2 ‘Radar Love’; the Netherlands – they were Dutch. 3 Peter Frampton; ‘Show Me the Way’. 4 ‘Sylvia’s Mother’; they wanted to be on ‘The Cover of Rolling Stone’. 5 They were named in the titles of the five tracks that comprise Pink Floyd’s Animals; Battersea Power Station. 6 Joe Walsh; ‘Life’s Been Good’. 7 ‘Baker Street’; Stealers Wheel. 8 Boston; er, Boston. 9 News of the World; ‘Sheer Heart Attack’, which had previously served as the name of their third album, released in 1974. 10 Midge Ure; Thin Lizzy. 11 Curved Air; ‘Back Street Luv’. 12 ‘Dance Away’ and ‘Angel Eyes’. 13 Lindisfarne; Paul Gascoigne – it was credited to ‘Gazza & Lindisfarne’. 14 ‘Hocus Pocus’; ‘Sylvia’. 15 They were the Spiders from Mars, David Bowie’s backing band; Uriah Heep.
16 Clive Dunn; ‘Ride a White Swan’. 17 Band on the Run by Wings; ‘Jet’. 18 Showaddywaddy; ‘Under the Moon of Love’. 19 ‘Ma Baker’; ‘Rasputin’. 20 ‘What’s Going On’; Marvin Gaye, the first time he’d produced his own material. 21 Rock Follies; Andy Mackay. 22 ‘No More Mr Nice Guy’; ‘Elected’. 23 ‘The Chain’; ‘Silver Springs’. 24 Saturday Night Fever; The Sound of Music. 25 Electric Light Orchestra; Wizzard. 26 ‘Coz I Luv You’; ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’. 27 ‘I’m Still Waiting’; Tony Blackburn. 28 ‘Down Down’; ‘Rockin’ All Over the World’. 29 ‘Honaloochie Boogie’; ‘All the Way from Memphis’. 30 Ron and Russell Mael; Kimono My House.
1 Lily Allen; It’s Not Me, It’s You. 2 Cher; ‘The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)’ – her previous chart-topper had been ‘I Got You Babe’, a duet with then-husband Sonny Bono. 3 The Runaways; Dakota Fanning. 4 The Smiths, although they spelt it ‘Shakespeares Sister’; Marcella Detroit. 5 Alison Moyet; ‘That Ole Devil Called Love’. 6 The Go-Go’s; ‘Our Lips Are Sealed’. 7 Kate Bush, with Never for Ever. 8 Lulu; Take That. 9 Crazysexycool; ‘Creep’. 10 Bat for Lashes; Sexwitch. 11 Annie Lennox – her 1995 album was called Medusa, while her 2002 release was Bare; ‘Love Song for a Vampire’. 12 Louise Wener, the singer of Sleeper, whose second album was called The It Girl; she is now a novelist. 13 ‘Wannabe’; ‘Stop’ was the only one of the ten not to top the UK singles chart. 14 Catatonia; the album was called Scissors, Paper, Stone. 15 Salt-N-Pepa; DJ Spinderella. 16 Billie (later Billie Piper); Chris Evans. 17 Haim; Days Are Gone. 18 Bernard Butler; Endlessly. 19 All Saints; ‘Never Ever’. 20 Suzi Quatro; ‘Devil Gate Drive’.
Bonus track 1
1 The Saturdays. 2 Sugababes. 3 Pussycat Dolls. 4 B*Witched. 5 Hepburn. 6 All Saints. 7 tATu. 8 Girls Aloud. 9 Spice Girls. 10 Atomic Kitten.
Bonus track 2
1 Janis Joplin. 2 Mary Timony. 3 Kim Deal. 4 Belinda Carlisle. 5 Carol Dekker. 6 Annie Lennox. 7 Lzzy Hale. 8 Ari Up. 9 Erika Wennerstrom. 10 Margo Timmins.
1 Richard Hell; Television. 2 Eddie & the Hot Rods; Graeme Douglas. 3 The Flamin’ Groovies; Dave Edmunds. 4 The Dictators; ‘California Sun’. 5 The eponymous debut album by the New York Dolls; David Johansen. 6 Joe Strummer and Ian Dury. 7 ‘The Passenger’; Siouxsie & the Banshees. 8 Kim Fowley; ‘Cherry Bomb’. 9 The Heartbreakers; Richard Hell. 10 Graham Parker (with the Rumour); Stick to Me. 11 Dr Feelgood; Lee Brilleaux. 12 The MC5; Kick Out the Jams. 13 ‘Judy is a Punk’ and ‘Suzy is a Headbanger’ – they’re all tracks by the Ramones. 14 Dr Feelgood; ‘Johnny B Goode’. 15 The Stooges; ‘Search and Destroy’.
Bonus tracks
16 ‘Janie Jones’ on The Clash. 17 ‘Gary Gilmore’s Eyes’ by the Adverts. 18 Squeeze are being ‘Tempted’. 19 According to the Clash, ‘White Riot’. 20 ‘There’s gonna be a borstal breakout’, from Sham 69’s ‘Borstal Breakout’. 21 ‘Rockaway Beach’ (the Ramones). 22 ‘No More Heroes’ by the Stranglers. 23 ‘Alternative Ulster’ (Stiff Little Fingers). 24 ‘Pretty Vacant’ (the Sex Pistols). 25 The Dead Kennedys, on ‘California Über Alles’. 26 ‘What Do I Get?’ (Buzzcocks). 27 ‘Mary of the 4th Form’ (the Boomtown Rats). 28 ‘New Rose’ by the Damned). 29 Blondie’s ‘Rip Her to Shreds’. 30 ‘My Perfect Cousin’ by the Undertones.
1 Echo: McCulloch is the singer in Echo and the Bunnymen, Martha and the Muffins had a hit with ‘Echo Beach’ and the Floyd compilation was called Echoes. 2 Heaven: Bob Dylan’s ‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door’, Bruno Mars’ ‘Locked Out of Heaven’ and Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway To Heaven’. 3 Pictures: The Who’s ‘Pictures of Lily’ Status Quo’s ‘Pictures of Matchstick Men’and Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s ‘Pictures At An Exhibition’. 4 Mountain: In The Future is by Black Mountain, Heretic Pride is by the Mountain Goats, and Fleet Foxes released their self-named debut album, which contained the tracks ‘Blue Ridge Mountains’ and ‘Tiger Mountain Peasant Song’. 5 Slow Down: the Beatles and the Jam covered the Williams song, Foreigner’s album was Can’t Slow Down, and Oasis released a download-only single called ‘Lord Don’t Slow Me Down’. 6 ‘Spaceman’, ‘Mr Spaceman’ and ‘I Thought I Was A Spaceman’ respectively. 7 Set fire: ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’, ‘Set Fire to the Rain’ and ‘ Set the Fire to the Third Bar’ respectively. 8 House: Blur’s ‘Country House’, Madness’s ‘House of Fun’ and Ed Sheeran’s ‘Lego House’. 9 Party: Beastie Boy’s ‘(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)’, Pink’s ‘Get the Party Started, and Courtney Barnett’s ‘Nobody Really Cares if You Don’t Go to the Party’.10 Garden: Lynn Anderson’s ‘(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden’, the Beatles’ ‘Octopus’s Garden’ and Siouxsie and the Banshees’ ‘Hong Kong Garden’. 11 Breathe: Laura Marling did it on her 2013 album Once I Was an Eagle. 12 Electric: ‘Feel Electric, ‘Electric Body’, ‘Electric Lady; and Duran Duran had a single called ‘Electric Barbarella’. 13 Moonlight: Moonlight Sonata, ‘Moonlight Serenade, and Toploader and Thin Lizzy both sang songs called.’Dancing in the Moonlight’. 14 Blood: Bastille’s ‘Bad Blood’, Kanye’s ‘Blood on the Leaves’ and Norah’s ‘Young Blood’; Kerr and Thatcher are the two members of Royal Blood. 15 Jump: Van Halens’s ‘Jump’, House of Pain’s ‘Jump Around’ and Metallica’s ‘Jump in the Fire’; Flo Rida.
16 Ginger Baker; Blind Faith. 17 Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler. 18 ‘Biscuits’; Same Trailer, Different Park. 19 Half Man Half Biscuit; Achtung Bono. 20 King Biscuit Time; Meet the Humans. 21 Sodomy (‘Cake and Sodomy’); Brian Warner. 22 Hot Chocolate; ‘So You Win Again’. 23 Pennyroyal; abortion – pennyroyal tea is said to induce miscarriage if consumed in vast quantities. 24 ‘Honey Pie’; Moby. 25 ‘Black Coffee’; in bed (‘Black Coffee in Bed’). 26 ‘Peaches N Cream’; Charlie Wilson. 27 Sugar; Spice (‘Sugar and Spice’). 28 Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band; as bubblegum (‘Strawberry Bubblegum’). 29 Garbage; Benny Hill. 30 Bread; ‘Make It With You’.
1 1982. 2 1975. 3 1991. 4 1966. 5 1986. 6 1963. 7 1958. 8 2001. 9 1964. 10 1990. 11 1969. 12 2003. 13 1978. 14 1997. 15 1960.
16 2005. 17 1979. 18 1988. 19 2012. 20 1961. 21 1977. 22 1956. 23 1995. 24 2010. 25 2000. 26 1965. 27 1984. 28 2002. 29 1970. 30 1992.
1 Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman. 2 Tori Amos; the Stranglers. 3 Elvis’s ‘Suspicious Minds’ and the Beatles’‘The Long and Winding Road’. 4 ‘I Will Always Love You’; Dolly Parton. 5 U2; the Skids. 6 An Innocent Man; Westlife. 7 ‘Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood’; Notting Hill. 8 The Marmalade; ‘Ob-la-di Ob-la-da’. 9 ‘Sound and Vision’; Girls Aloud. 10 Robbie Williams; Michael Bublé. 11 Lulu; Dan Hartman. 12 ‘Santa Claus Is Coming To Town’; Björn Again. 13 Talking Heads; Big Mouth Billy Bass, a singing fish head.14 David Bowie and Amii Stewart. 15 Take That and Boyzone respectively.
16 The Isley Brothers; The Christians. 17 Tom Waits; ‘Heigh-Ho’ from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. 18 Joe Cocker; Wet Wet Wet. 19 Kate Bush; ‘Candle in the Wind’. 20 Thin Lizzy; Metallica. 21 ‘Heroes’; Brian Eno, who co-wrote ‘Heroes’ with Bowie, did a version of Gabriel’s song ‘Mothers of Violence’. 22 Dave Edmunds and Robert Wyatt respectively. 23 ‘Victoria’ and ‘There’s a Ghost In My House’. 24 ‘Whole Lotta Love’; ‘Asteroid’ (but a point for saying ‘the Pearl & Dean song’). 25 Village People; David Bowie. 26 ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart’; it was sung not by Sarah Cracknell but by session singer Moira Lambert. 27 Flaming Lips; Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (the album was entitled With a Little Help from My Fwends). 28 Dave Edmunds and the Ramones respectively. 29 To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International; Bryan Ferry. 30 ‘Make You Feel My Love’ and ‘Lovesong’.
1 L7 (drummer Dee Plakas was apparently quite relaxed about the incident); The Word. 2 Boy George; Kirk Brandon. 3 ‘Go Ape Crazy!’; the album’s cover, a pastiche of Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, showed singer Annabella Lwin naked – she was 14 at the time. 4 Chuck Berry; tax evasion. 5 Madonna; Live Aid. 6 Eminem; ‘Cleaning out My Closet’. 7 ‘Golden Brown’; Hugh Cornwell. 8 A lawn mower – he was stopped by police about ten miles away; Tammy Wynette. 9 Jim Morrison; he died while the sentence was on appeal. 10 Burglary – while the rest of the Libertines were on tour, Doherty broke into bandmate Carl Barât’s flat and stole property. 11 Larry Hagman; Oliver Reed. 12 Nicole was married to Liam Gallagher from 2008 to 2014, while Natalie’s second husband is Liam Howlett of the Prodigy. 13 He was never done for fraud or manslaughter. 14 Queens of the Stone Age; Josh Homme. 15 Elton John; flowers.
16 Ian Brown of the Stone Roses; Diana Ross. 17 Mötley Crüe; Pamela Anderson. 18 Eddie Van Halen; Harry Connick Jr. 19 Elvis Presley; his future wife, Priscilla. 20 Penthouse; The Daily Sport. 21 Wendy O Williams; the Plasmatics. 22 Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry; bananas. 23 The Bling Ring; she was sent to prison for the theft of a necklace. 24 Mandy Smith; Mandy Smith’s mum. 25 Today, hosted by Bill Grundy; ‘The Filth and the Fury’. 26 Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor. 27 P Diddy; Farnsworth was his butler. 28 Phil Spector; Fast Times at Ridgemont High. 29 Sid Vicious; Rikers Island. 30 Lil’ Kim; tax evasion.
1 Horace Andy; Neneh Cherry. 2 Sonic Youth; Dirty. 3 The Michael Faraday Memorial, near Elephant & Castle; ‘Given to the Wild’. 4 Brighton; Brakes. 5 Rufus Wainwright; Florence Welch. 6 Sea Change; Modern Guilt. 7 1983; three. 8 Power, Corruption and Lies; 808 State. 9 The Streets; ‘Dry Your Eyes’. 10 Jamie xx; In Colour. 11 Chubby Checker; The Fat Boys. 12 Shortened it from Tyrannosaurus Rex to T. Rex; ‘Hot Love’. 13 Joanna Newsom; harp. 14 Trainspotting; David Bowie. 15 Desmond Dekker; ‘You Can Get It If You Really Want’.
16 Bill Callahan; Dream River. 17 Death In Vegas; Iggy Pop. 18 Little Richard; ‘Tutti-Frutti’. 19 Daughter; Not To Disappear. 20 Is This It; Julian Casablancas. 21 Kraftwerk; Autobahn. 22 The delta sign Δ; An Awesome Wave. 23 The Wedding Present; Elvis Presley. 24 A: We Are Devo. Mothersbaugh. 25 Gossip; ‘Standing in the Way of Control’. 26 John Lee Hooker; ‘One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer’. 27 ‘Mr Tambourine Man’; ‘All I Really Want to Do’. 28 Goldie; The World is Not Enough. 29 Throwing Muses and the Breeders. 30 ‘You Walk Like a Peasant’; ‘Want to Dance’.
1 ‘Falling Slowly’; The Commitments. 2 Brian Slade; David Bowie. 3 Ghost; 25. 4 Mogwai; he was the furry hero of Gremlins. 5 Los Lobos; La Bamba. 6 Chesney Hawkes; Nik Kershaw. 7 Footloose; ‘Holding Out for a Hero’. 8 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Burt Bacharach and Hal David. 9 The Woman in Red; ‘I Just Called to Say I Love You’. 10 The Three Musketeers; Rod Stewart. 11 Propellerheads; Decksanddrumsandrockandroll. 12 24 Hour Party People; Control. 13 Mamma Mia; Madonna – the album was The Power of Madonna. 14 Radio Caroline’; Richard Curtis. 15 John Carpenter and Kurt Russell.
16 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; 16 weeks. 17 Four Weddings and a Funeral; the Troggs. 18 Denzel Washington; Branford Marsalis Quartet. 19 ‘Stuck in the Middle with You’; Steppenwolf. 20 Anvil; Tokyo. 21 Beyoncé Knowles; Jennifer Hudson. 22 Ken Russell; Elton John. 23 Crazy Heart; Colin Farrell. 24 Kim Basinger; ‘Lose Yourself’. 25 Leningrad Cowboys Go America; Total Balalaika Show. 26 High Fidelity; Jack Black. 27 Pulp Fiction; Neil Diamond. 28 Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson); his son, O’Shea Jackson Jr. 29 Chess Records; Mos Def. 30 Smell the Glove; Rob Reiner, the film’s director.
1 Dream Theater; Black Clouds and Silver Linings. 2 ‘Ace of Spades’; Hammersmith – the album was called No Sleep ’Til Hammersmith. (A later live album was called No Sleep at All.) 3 Venom; Black Metal. 4 Brain Donor; Julian Cope. 5 Deep Purple; Ian Gillan. 6 Avenged Sevenfold; Mike Portnoy. 7 Metallica; ‘Symphony’ – it was recorded with the San Francisco Symphony. 8 Rage Against the Machine; ‘Killing in the Name’. 9 Iowa; a clown mask. 10 System of a Down; Mezmerize/Hypnotize. 11 Megadeth; Kirk Hammett. 12 Saxon; ‘And the Bands Played on’. 13 Slayer; Reign in Blood. 14 Helloween; Keeper of the Seven Keys. 15 Anthrax; Joey Belladonna.
16 Girlschool; Hit and Run. 17 Follow the Leader; Fred Durst. 18 Iron Maiden; ‘Bring Your Daughter . . . to the Slaughter’. 19 Judas Priest; he came out as gay. 20 Rammstein; ‘Stripped’. 21 Ronnie James Dio; Rainbow. 22 Linkin Park; Hybrid Theory. 23 Load; St Anger. 24 Limp Bizkit; DJ Lethal. 25 Mutt Lange; Pyromania. 26 The Scorpions (Rudolf) and UFO (Michael, also briefly a member of the Scorpions). 27 They’re the character make-up masks worn by the members of Kiss; The Elder was a concept album by the group, released in 1981. 28 Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler. 29 Pantera; Abbott was killed by a fan at a concert in Ohio. 30 ‘Enter Sandman’; Live Shit: Binge & Purge.
1 Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree. 2 Food Records; Seymour. 3 ‘She’s So High’. 4 Live at the De De De Der; the Royal Albert Hall in London. 5 ‘This Is a Low’; Dogger Bank. 6 Phil Daniels. 7 Everyday Robots; Brian Eno. 8 ‘Country House’; ‘Beetlebum’. 9 William Orbit. 10 Monkey: Journey to the West (Albarn reworked the music for the CD release, which was just called Journey to the West); Dr Dee. 11 It was the first single on which Graham Coxon sang lead vocals; a milk carton (called Milky). 12 Tank Girl. 13 Neneh Cherry, De La Soul and Dennis Hopper. 14 No Distance Left to Run; ‘Fool’s Day’. 15 Snoop Dogg. 16 Fela Kuti; the Clash; the Verve.
17 Beady Eye. 18 Harmonica. 19 Definitely Maybe. 20 Paul Arthurs, Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll; Alan White replaced McCarroll in 1995 and Andy Bell replaced McGuigan in 1999. 21 Johnny Depp. 22 Paul Stacey (his brother Jeremy is also a High Flying Bird). 23 Chasing Yesterday. 24 Rodney Marsh; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. 25 Seven. 26 ‘Some Might Say’, ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’, ‘D’You Know What I Mean?’, ‘All Around the World’, ‘Go Let It Out’, ‘The Hindu Times’, ‘Lyla’ and ‘The Importance of Being Idle’. 27 Familiar to Millions; Time Flies . . . 1994–2009 (Time Flies is fine). 28 Knebworth House. 29 Jay Z. 30 Meg Matthews and Sara MacDonald; Russell Brand.
1 Adamski; Seal. 2 Lady Gaga; 2008. 3 Pink and Little Boots. 4 Maxi Jazz and Sister Bliss. 5 Elvis Costello and Wreckless Eric. 6 D’Angelo; The Vanguard. 7 Skin; Skunk Anansie. 8 Alice Cooper; golf. 9 The shows were by comedian Bill Bailey, whose real name is Mark Bailey; Bill Bailey is Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose’s real name. 10 The Fratellis; Mince Fratelli. 11 Chuck D and Flavor Flav. 12 Badly Drawn Boy; About a Boy. 13 Chris De Burgh; ‘The Lady in Red’. 14 Gabrielle; Rise. 15 Example; Professor Green.
Bonus tracks
Boys: 1-b; 2-e;3-f;4-g; 5-i; 6-c; 7-d; 8-a; 9-j; 10-h
Girls: 1-j; 2-d; 3-h; 4-c; 5-g; 6-e; 7-I; 8-f; 9-a;10-b
Rappers: 1-g; 2-d; 3-j; 4-i; 5-a;6-f; 7-b; 8-h; 9-c;10-e.
1 ‘Puppet on a String’ by Sandie Shaw. 2 ‘Kiss with a Fist’ by Florence + the Machine. 3 ‘Don’t Bomb When You’re the Bomb’ by Blur. 4 ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ by Bob Dylan. 5 ‘Parachutes’ by Coldplay. 6 ‘It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)’ by REM. 7 ‘Changed the Way You Kiss Me’ by Example. 8 ‘He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother’ by the Hollies. 9 ‘We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful’ by Morrissey. 10 ‘The Importance of Being Idle’ by Oasis. 11 ‘English Riviera’ by Metronomy. 12 ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’ by U2. 13 ‘Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)’ by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel. 14 ‘She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)’ by David Guetta featuring Sia. 15 ‘Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)’ by Peter Sarstedt. 16 ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason’ by Pink Floyd. 17 ‘Shoplifters of the World Unite’ by the Smiths. 18 ‘Grand Prix’ by Teenage Fanclub. 19 ‘Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home)’ by Paul Young, after Marvin Gaye. 20 ‘The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song’ by the Flaming Lips.
21 ‘Russian Roulette’ by Rihanna. 22 ‘With a Little Help from My Friends’ by the Beatles (and, later, Joe Cocker). 23 ‘Monkey Wrench’ by Foo Fighters. 24 ‘I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)’ by Sandi Thom. 25 ‘Paranoid Android’ by Radiohead. 26 ‘Life Begins at the Hop’ by XTC. 27 ‘You Can Get It If You Really Want’ by Desmond Dekker. 28 ‘Fit But You Know It’ by the Streets. 29 ‘You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me’ by Dusty Springfield, born Mary O’Brien. 30 ‘This Is Not a Love Song’ by Public Image Ltd. 31 ‘Without You I’m Nothing’ by Placebo. 32 ‘I Need a Forest Fire’ by James Blake featuring Bon Iver. 33 ‘Is She Really Going Out With Him?’ by Joe Jackson. 34 ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’ by Iggy & the Stooges – Iggy Pop’s real name is James Osterberg. 35 ‘Written in the Stars’ by Tinie Tempah featuring Eric Turner. 36 ‘Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves’ by the Eurythmics with Aretha Franklin. 37 ‘Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?’ by the Rolling Stones. 38 ‘These Boots Are Made for Walkin’’ by Nancy Sinatra. 39 ‘If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next’ by Manic Street Preachers. 40 ‘Talking with the Taxman about Poetry’ by Billy Bragg.
1 Heavy Horses. 2 ‘Digital Lion’. 3 The Dream of the Blue Turtles. 4 ‘Rattlesnakes’. 5 Toots & the Maytals. 6 The Specials. 7 ‘Rock Lobster’. 8 Paul Weller. 9 The Boomtown Rats. 10 Band of Horses. 11 He managed to ‘Fly Like an Eagle’. 12 America. 13 The opening lines from ‘Black Dog’ by Led Zeppelin. 14 Mink, Rat or Rabbit. 15 ‘Chestnut Mare’. 16 ‘The bird’, on the song ‘Surfin’ Bird’. 17 The Lion and the Cobra. 18 The Walrus. 19 A Flock of Seagulls. 20 The Jam. 21 Doves. 22 Antony (now Anohni) & the Johnson. 23 ‘The Love Cats’. 24 Horses, her first album. 25 Foals. 26 ‘When Doves Cry’. 27 ‘The Size of a Cow’. 28 Tame Impala. 29 The Frog Chorus, who joined McCartney to record ‘We All Stand Together’. 30 Snoop Doggy Dogg, or Snoop Dogg as he’s now known. 31 Wolf Alice. 32 Squeeze. 33 ‘Black Horse and the Cherry Tree’. 34 The Jayhawks. 35 ‘Crocodile Rock’. 36 ‘Bird Dog’. 37 Seven and the Ragged Tiger. 38 The Raven. 39 ‘Hound Dog’. 40 ‘Snake Eyes’.
1 Hopelessness; Hudson Mohawke. 2 Gruff Rhys, the singer in Super Furry Animals; American Interior. 3 Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. 4 Jimmy Webb; ‘Up, Up and Away’. 5 They’re the words used to distinguish between the first four albums by Peter Gabriel, which are all officially called Peter Gabriel – the words are inspired by images on each album’s cover. 6 Smile; Van Dyke Parks. 7 Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman; the Beat. 8 Dave Matthews Band; they’re the only band to go straight to the top of the US albums chart with six different albums. 9 George Gershwin; ‘You’ve Got a Friend in Me’. 10 Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith. 11 Alanis Morissette; Tori Amos. 12 Jackson Browne; ‘Stay’. 13 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice; Elaine Paige. 14 Leonard Cohen; Rufus Wainwright – the film itself featured John Cale’s version of the song. 15 ‘River of Dreams’; ‘Piano Man’.
16 Burt Bacharach and Hal David; ABC. 17 Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller; the Coasters. 18 White Ladder; ‘Say Hello, Wave Goodbye’. 19 Joe Jackson; Night and Day. 20 ‘Morning Dew’; the Grateful Dead. 21 ‘Sacrifice’; Bernie Taupin. 22 ‘Locomotion’; Gerry Goffin and Carole King. 23 Cat Stevens; ‘Matthew and Son’. 24 Sleep Through the Static and To the Sea. 25 Lisa Hannigan; 9. 26 Release the Stars; Richard Thompson, father of Wainwright’s longtime friend Teddy Thompson. 27 Judy Collins; Joni Mitchell. 28 Ben Howard; I Forget Where We Were. 29 February; James Dean. 30 ‘Watching the Detectives’; ‘filing her nails’.
1 Beyoncé Knowles; Destiny’s Child. 2 Natalie Merchant; 10;000 Maniacs. 3 Dan Smith; Bastille. 4 Nina Persson; the Cardigans. 5 Michael Stipe; R.E.M. 6 Alex Kapranos; Franz Fredinand. 7 Johnny Thunders; New York Dolls. 8 Gavin Rossdale; Bush. 9 Stuart Staples; Tindersticks. 10 Chris Martin; Coldplay. 11 Julian Casablancas; the Strokes. 12 Alex Harvey; Sensational Alex Harvey Band. 13 E (aka Mark Everett); Eels. 14 Nick Cave; The Birthday Party. 15 Michael Hutchence; INXS.
16 Ian Hunter; Mott the Hoople. 17 Bob Geldof; Boomtown Rats. 18 Heather Small; M People. 19 Pauline Black; Selecter. 20 Billy Corgan; Smashing Pumpkins. 21 Fred Durst; Limp Bizkit. 22 Nancy Wilson; Heart. 23 Lauren Laverne; Kenickie. 24 Mick Hucknall; Simply Red. 25 Marcus Mumford; Mumford and Sons. 26 Liela Moss; Duke Spirit. 27 Ranking Roger; The Beat. 28 Cerys Matthews; Catatonia. 29 Tom Petty; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. 30 Brandon Flowers; the Killers.
1 Haçienda; New Order. 2 ‘I Can’t Explain’; Better Living Through Chemistry. 3 ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’; ‘Yes Sir, I Can Boogie’. 4 Madison Avenue; Australia. 5 Paul Oakenfold; Heaven. 6 Elton John; Ta-Dah. 7 Saturday Night Fever; ‘If I Can’t Have You’. 8 Brandon Flowers; Elly Jackson. 9 ‘Firestarter’ and ‘Breathe’. 10 ‘Don’t Stop (Wiggle Wiggle)’ and ‘Boom Boom Boom’. 11 Disco 1, 2, 3 and 4; Disco 4 was remixes of other people’s songs, not their own. 12 ‘Levels’; Dead or Alive. 13 Ottawan; ‘Funkytown’. 14 Jamiroquai; Emergency on Planet Earth. 15 ‘Titanium’ and ‘She Wolf (Falling To Pieces)’.
16 Jackie Wilson; Jocky Wilson. 17 ‘Pompeii’; Twin Peaks. 18 ‘The Power’ and ‘Rhythm is a Dancer’. 19 Calvin Harris (I Created Disco); the eighties. 20 Moloko; Hairless Toys. 21 Tiesto; William Orbit. 22 DJ Fresh; Rita Ora. 23 The Pointer Sisters; excitement – ‘I’m So Excited’. 24 Dido; she is the sister of the band’s leader, Rollo Armstrong. 25 Gotye; ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’. 26 The Moonwalk, later adopted by Michael Jackson; ‘I Can Make You Feel Good’. 27 Electric Six; ‘Radio Ga Ga’. 28 Orbital; Hartnoll. 29 Rose Royce; ‘Car Wash’. 30 Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards (or Chic); ‘Upside Down’.
1 ‘Whiter Shade of Pale’; The Commitments. 2 Psychedelic Furs; Molly Ringwald. 3 ‘Purple Haze’; Monterey Pop Festival. 4 ‘Brown Eyed Handsome Man’; Van Morrison, ‘Brown Eyed Girl’. 5 Little Red; Katy B. 6 The Beatles; Yellow Submarine. 7 Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul; Sam Cooke. 8 AC/DC; Amy Winehouse. 9 Pink; You+Me. 10 Professor Green; Emeli Sandé. 11 ‘Misty Blue’; Eddy Arnold. 12 Visage; Midge Ure. 13 White Lies; Ritual. 14 David Soul and David Essex. 15 ‘(There’ll be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover’; Robson and Jerome.
16 Electric Light Orchestra, Out of the Blue. 17 The Corrs, In Blue. 18 David Gray, White Ladder. 19 Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. 20 Culture Club, Colour By Numbers. 21 Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. 22 Tori Amos, Under the Pink. 23 Radiohead, In Rainbows. 24 The National, High Violet. 25 Florence + the Machine, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. 26 The Stranglers, Black and White. 27 John Grant, Pale Green Ghosts. 28 Taylor Swift, Red. 29 Kate Bush, The Red Shoes. 30 R.E.M., Green.
1 They are both Mormons; Gladys Knight. 2 Joan Osborne; Relish. 3 Like a Prayer; Pepsi. 4 Gloria; Van Morrison. Smith changed many of the lyrics, and the spoken part at the beginning is taken from her own poem, ‘Oath’. 5 Chocolate and Personal. 6 ‘Let It Be’; words of wisdom. 7 ‘A Place on Earth’; Three steps. 8 Morrissey; ‘Jesus was an Only Son’. 9 Hindu Love Gods; ‘Raspberry Beret’. 10 George Harrison; his death. 11 Nirvana: MTV Unplugged in New York; the Vaselines: it was a spoof of an old Christian ditty. 12 The Mountain Goats; Neon Bible.13 The Cure in 1981 and George Michael in 1987. 14 Aretha Franklin; Duran Duran. 15 My Fair Lady; ‘Modern Love’.
16 Marianne Faithfull; ‘Somewhere (A Place for Us)’. 17 Meltdown; Guy Garvey. 18 Iggy Pop; Sunday at 4pm. 19 Stuart Maconie; Separations. 20 Russell Senior; he was president of the band’s fan club (and occasional tour manager). 21 Weird Sisters; Radiohead. 22 Sculpture; a supermarket. 23 This is Hardcore; ‘Help the Aged’. 24 ‘Mis-Shapes’; Daily Mirror. 25 ‘Do You Remember the First Time?’; Jo Whiley. 26 ‘Bad Cover Version’; Nick Cave. 27 Beth Ditto; they are both from Sheffield. 28 Nancy Sinatra; Richard Hawley. 29 Island; Rough Trade. 30 Deep; ‘Caucasian Blues’.
1 U2; War. 2 Echo and the Bunnymen; Ocean Rain. . 3 Happy Mondays; Bummed. 4 Pixies; Doolittle. 5 Talking Heads; Little Creatures. 6 The Cure; Pornography. 7 John Lennon and Yoko Ono; Double Fantasy. 8 Pet Shop Boys; Actually. 9 Madonna; True Blue. 10 David Bowie; Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). 11 New Order; Technique. 12 Guns N’ Roses; Appetite for Destruction. 13 The Police; Synchronicity. 14 De La Soul; 3 Feet High and Rising. 15 AC/DC; Back in Black.
16 REM; Life’s Rich Pageant. 17 Heaven 17; Penthouse and Pavement. 18 Depeche Mode; Music for the Masses. 19 Iron Maiden; The Number of the Beast. 20 Def Leppard; Hysteria. 21 Yazoo; Upstair’s at Eric’s. 22 Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians; Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars. 23 Soul II Soul; Club Classics Vol I. 24 The Associates; Sulk. 25 The Pogues; Rum; Sodomy & the Lash. 26 Talk Talk; The Colour of Spring. 27 The Cramps; A Date with Elvis. 28 Tom Waits; Swordfishtrombones. 29 George Michael; Faith. 30 Sisters of Mercy; Floodland.
1 Don McLean; The Next Best Thing. 2 Sean Penn; Guy Ritchie. 3 Britney Spears; Cristina Aguilera. 4 Mirwais; ‘What it Feels Like for a Girl’. 5 Maverick; Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill. 6 Desperately Seeking Susan; Rosanna Arquette. 7 John ‘Jellybean’ Benitez; ‘Holiday’. 8 ‘Like a Virgin’; ‘Into the Groove’. 9 A cowboy hat; the Drowned World tour. 10 The love affair between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson; ‘Masterpiece’. 11 I’m Breathless; Warren Beatty. 12 ‘Frozen’; William Orbit. 13 Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. 14 Erotica; Body of Evidence. 15 Austin Powers: the Spy who Shagged Me; Evita (‘Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina’ and ‘Another Suitcase in Another Hall’).
16 Britney Spears; Rihanna. 17 No Doubt; This is What the Truth Feels Like. 18 Back to Basics; ‘Moves Like Jagger’. 19 Funhouse; ‘So What’. 20 ‘True Colors’; ‘What’s Going On’. 21 Kerry Katona; Snog Marry Avoid? 22 Melanie Blatt and Shaznay Lewis. 23 Little Boots; Dead Disco. 24 Pixie Lott; ‘Mama Do (Uh Oh Uh Oh)’. 25 Ladyhawke; Michelle Pfeiffer. 26 Beyoncé; Britney Spears. 27 2014; 52nd Street. 28 A dress made of meat; a murderer. 29 Tony Bennett; ‘The Lady is a Tramp’. 30 American Horror Story (the fifth series was called Hotel); The Born This Way Foundation to help young people overcome issues with bullying and low self-esteem.
1 Spiral Scratch; Howard Devoto. 2 The Slits; Palmolive. 3 ‘Don’t Dictate’; the Invisible Girls, who were actually formed as a backing band for John Cooper Clarke. 4 The Rezillos; ‘Ballroom Blitz’. 5 ‘Too Drunk to Fuck’ and ‘Nazi Punks Fuck Off’. 6 The Lurkers; ‘Then I Kicked Her’, a take on ‘Then I Kissed Her’. 7 Paul Cook; Glen Matlock. 8 The Saints; ‘This Perfect Day’. 9 Crass; Penis Envy. 10 X-Ray Spex; ‘Germfree Adolescents’. 11 The Ruts; ‘Staring at the Rude Boys’. 12 ‘Oh Bondage Up Yours!’; Poly Styrene, the singer with X-Ray Spex. 13 Angelic Upstarts; Liddle Towers, on ‘The Murder of Liddle Towers’. 14 Rocket to Russia; ‘Needles and Pins’. 15 ‘Smash It Up’; ‘Eloise’.
16 The Boomtown Rats; ‘Rat Trap’. 17 ‘Anarchy in the UK’; Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols. 18 Damned Damned Damned; ‘Neat Neat Neat’. 19 ‘God Save the Queen’ by the Sex Pistols; Rod Stewart, with a double-A side of ‘I Don’t Want to Talk about It’ and ‘The First Cut is the Deepest’. 20 Sham 69; ‘If the Kids Are United’. 21 The Dickies; ‘Silent Night’. 22 Iggy & the Stooges; Coming Up for Air. 23 ‘I’m So Bored with the USA’; ‘Lost in the Supermarket’. 24 Ronnie Biggs; ‘Somethin’ Else’. 25 Stiff Little Fingers; Inflammable Material. 26 Captain Sensible (Raymond Burns); a red beret. 27 The Rezillos; ‘I Can’t Stand My Baby’. 28 Black Flag; ‘Louie Louie’. 29 The Adverts; ‘Bored Teenagers’. 30 Another Music in a Different Kitchen; Love Bites.
1 MC Hammer; Hammer pants. 2 Will Smith; ‘Boom! Shake The Room’. 3 The Dogg Pound; Dogg Food. 4 Dido; No Angel. 5 D12; Proof. 6 Kanye West – The College Dropout was his debut album; Graduation, the title of his third album. 7 Beastie Boys; Madonna. 8 50 Cent; The Massacre. 9 A Tribe Called Quest; Beats, Rhymes and Life. 10 Snoop Dogg; Snoop Lion. 11 The Outhere Brothers; The Fucking Hits. 12 The Bomb Squad; Terminator X. 13 Kim Kardashian; Paul McCartney. 14 Royce da 5’9”; Hell: the Sequel. 15 Nelly; Kelly Rowland.
16 Roots Manuva; ‘Witness (1 Hope)’. 17 Me Against the World; ‘California Love’. 18 Coolio; Celebrity Big Brother. 19 Straight Outta Compton by NWA. 20 American Gangster; Bonnie and Clyde. 21 Slim Shady; The Marshall Mathers LP and The Marshall Mathers LP 2. 22 Drake – they’re the titles of his first two albums; Views, the title of his 2016 album. 23 Cypress Hill; they were a Latino collective rather than an African American group. 24 Tupac Shakur; the Notorious BIG (aka Biggie Smalls). 25 Puff Daddy; the Police’s ‘Every Breath You Take’. 26 Ice Cube; Predator. 27 ‘Run this Town’ and ‘Empire State of Mind’. 28 Encore followed The Eminem Show; after Relapse came Recovery. 29 Rihanna; ‘What’s My Name?’. 30 Soul II Soul; IV was a best-of compilation.
1 ‘Blue Monday’ by New Order. 2 Judas Priest. 3 ‘Days are Forgotten’. 4 August – their debut album was August and Everything After. 5 Sheryl Crow. 6 ‘1959’. 7 Bryan Adams. 8 ‘Two More Years’. 9 Blancmange. 10 The 1975. 11 The Cure. 12 The Sundays. 13 ‘Sunday Girl’. 14 Richard Thompson. 15 ‘When the Sun Goes Down’. 16 The Bangles. 17 ‘Hymn for the Weekend’. 18 The Strokes. 19 ‘Eighth Day’. 20 Enter Shikari. 21 The Gaslight Anthem. 22 Buddy Holly. 23 Saturday. 24 ‘Another Day’. 25 Ian Brown. 26 October. 27 In this Light and on this Evening. 28 ‘Friday on My Mind’. 29 Come Around Sundown. 30 Melanie. 31 Culture Club. 32 ‘The Year of the Cat’. 33 ‘1999’. 34 Sunday at Devil Dirt, their second album. 35 ‘Wednesday Week’. 36 ‘Watch the Sun Come Up’. 37 Shed Seven. 38 Pet Shop Boys. 39 Altered Images. 40 He sang ‘Millennium’.
1 Gary and Martin Kemp. 2 The Breeders; Last Splash. 3 Anorexia; she was the drummer. 4 Jay Z and Beyoncé. 5 The Jesus & Mary Chain (Jim and William Reid) and the Proclaimers (Charlie and Craig Reid). 6 Win and Will Butler; Régine Chassagne is married to Win. 7 The Magic Numbers; ‘Forever Lost’. 8 Ray Davies of the Kinks and Jim Kerr of Simple Minds. 9 Kate McGarrigle; Judy Garland. 10 Norma Waterson; Bottle. 11 Carrie Fisher and Edie Brickell. 12 Carl and Dennis Wilson; cousin. 13 The Corrs; Talk on Corners. 14 The Followill family are better known as Kings of Leon; Nashville, Tennessee. 15 Lourdes and Rocco.
16 The Bellamy Brothers. 17 The Scissor Sisters. 18 Damien Rice. 19 Aretha Franklin. 20 Paul Simon. 21 Loretta Lynn. 22 Shakespears Sister. 23 Uncle Tupelo. 24 Sisters of Mercy. 25 Simone Felice. 26 The Black Keys. 27 Hunky Dory. 28 Desire. 29 Mystery Jets. 30 Dutch Uncles. 31 Father John Misty. 32 The Indigo Girls. 33 ‘My Brother Jake’. 34 Natalie Merchant. 35 The Punch Brothers. 36 The Righteous Brothers. 37 ‘Mother’s Little Helper’. 38 Brothers in Arms. 39 Vampire Weekend. 40 Graduation. 41 Sons and Daughters. 42 Young Fathers. 43 James. 44 If You Leave. 45 Chris Robinson.
1 Bernard Sumner (New Order) and Johnny Marr (the Smiths). 2 Longpigs; Richard Hawley. 3 The La’s; Cast. 4 Gene; Olympian. 5 Urban Hymns (the Verve); ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’. 6 ‘In My Place’; Darius. 7 The La’s; ‘There She Goes’. 8 ‘Weekender’; Maher. 9 Shed Seven; ‘Going for Gold’. 10 Their breakthrough single was ‘Mulder and Scully’, named after the show’s two lead characters; International Velvet. 11 Supergrass; I Should Coco. 12 Ash released the album 1977 in 1995; 1977 was also the year Star Wars was released, and there are references to the film on the album. 13 Alex James; Keith Allen. 14 Kula Shaker; Crispian Mills, the son of Hayley Mills, the grandson of Sir John Mills and the nephew of Jonathan Mills. 15 Brett Anderson; the Tears.
16 The band was called Marion, and Marion Morrison was John Wayne’s real name; New Order. 17 Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield; they’re all ardent Manchester City supporters. 18 ‘Viva la Vida’ and ‘Paradise’. 19 Pulp; It. 20 Sleeper; the press called them ‘Sleeperblokes’, and the musicians responded by using the term as a badge of honour. 21 ‘Step On’ and ‘Kinky Afro’. 22 ‘Yes’; David McAlmont. 23 Second Coming; ‘Love Spreads’. 24 Inspiral Carpets; Noel Gallagher. 25 Elastica; Blur’s Damon Albarn. 26 Stereophonics; Kelly Jones. 27 Mansun; Attack of the Grey Lantern. 28 Plastic Beach; Bobby Womack. 29 ‘Common People’ was kept off the top spot by ‘Unchained Melody’, and ‘Wonderwall’ was blocked by ‘I Believe’. 30 Ian Brown; Sinéad O’Connor.
1 Unbreakable; Jimmy Jam. 2 Jessie J; ‘Do It Like a Dude’. 3 Pointer Sisters; ‘Fire’. 4 Mary J Blige; Share My World. 5 Lisa Stansfield; ‘All Around the World’. 6 Neneh Cherry; Raw Like Sushi. 7 ‘Crazy’ by Gnarls Barkley, ‘Umbrella’ by Rihanna and ‘One Dance’ by Drake. 8 ‘Love the Way You Lie’ and ‘Monster’. 9 ‘Dreams’; East 17. 10 Destiny’s Child; Beyoncé. 11 Mariah Carey; Boyz II Men. 12 Laura Mvula; a new version with a full orchestra. 13 Macy Gray; The Id. 14 Leona Lewis; Spirit. 15 Erykah Badu; New Amerykah Part One and Part Two.
16 Mary J Blige; ‘One’. 17 ‘Crazy in Love’ and ‘Déjà Vu’. 18 En Vogue; Funky Divas. 19 ‘Midnight Train to Georgia’; Licence to Kill. 20 Oleta Adams; Tears for Fears. 21 Mica Paris; What Not to Wear. 22 ‘Chain Reaction’; Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb. 23 Toni Braxton; ‘Un-Break My Heart’. 24 ‘Ring My Bell’ and ‘Jump to the Beat’ respectively. 25 Deniece Williams; Johnny Mathis. 26 Jennifer Lopez; Selena. 27 Randy Crawford; Jackie Brown. 28 janet. – with a lower-case ‘j’ and a full stop. 29 Sade; Diamond Life. 30 TLC; Lisa Left-Eye Lopes.
1 ‘Hotel California’. 2 ‘Setting Sun’; ‘Block Rockin’ Beats’. 3 ‘Do Wah Diddy Diddy’, Pretty Flamingo’ and Dylan’s ‘Mighty Quinn’. 4 ‘Hot Love’; ‘Get It On’; ‘Telegram Sam’; Metal ‘Guru’. 5 Performance and Cocktails; Just Enough Education to Perform; You Gotta Go There to Come Back; Language. Sex. Violence. Other?; Pull the Pin. 5a Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams. 6 ‘Public Image’; ‘Death Disco’; ‘Flowers of Romance’; ‘This is Not a Love Song’; ‘Rise’; ‘Don’t Ask Me’. 7 ‘Space Oddity’; ‘Ashes to Ashes’; ‘Under Pressure’ (with Queen); ‘Let’s Dance’; ‘Dancing in the Street’ (with Mick Jagger). 8 39/Smooth; Kerplunk; Dookie; Insomniac; Nimrod; Warning; American Idiot; 21st Century Breakdown. 9 Paul: Linda Eastman, Heather Mills, Nancy Shevell. John: Cynthia Powell, Yoko Ono. George: Patti Boyd, Olivia Trinidad Arias. Ringo: Maureen Cox, Barbara Bach. 10 Elvis Presley; Elton John; Diana Ross; Paul McCartney and Wings; Rod Stewart; Marc Bolan and T. Rex; David Bowie; Cliff Richard; Hot Chocolate; Abba.
1 Pete Best; Nirvana. 2 Clem Cattini; James Corden. 3 Vivienne Westwood; Bow Wow Wow. 4 A mixtape is a collection of songs, beats and samples, often but not always released as a precursor to an ‘official’ album, and often free. 5 Record Store Day; Metallica. 6 They were all used in a series of Levi’s ads that changed the game as regards the use of popular music in TV advertising. 7 Fender Stratocaster; a wah-wah pedal. 8 Aerial by Kate Bush. 9 Bruce Dickinson; Ronnie James Dio. 10 Hipgnosis; UFO. 11 Ritchie Blackmore and Jack White. 12 David Bowie; ‘The Laughing Gnome’. 13 They’re all synthesizers; the Minimoog. 14 They’re all the nicknames of guitars played by Eric Clapton; George Harrison. 15 A hi-hat; Ringo Starr.
16 Mick Fleetwood and Samantha Fox. 17 Dido and Adele. 18 The KLF; Extreme Noise Terror. 19 The Eurovision Song Contest; Terry Wogan. 20 John Prescott; Vic Reeves. 21 Jarvis Cocker; ‘Earth Song’. 22 The Union Jack dress; David Bowie. 23 Sting (he’s won six); David Bowie. 24 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; Ohio, in the city of Cleveland. 25 Liam Gallagher; Villain of the Year. 26 2008; Elbow. 27 2003; Dizzee Rascal. 28 1998; Gomez. 29 2010; The xx. 30 1995; Portishead.
1 ‘This River is Wild’. 2 ‘Thunder in the Mountains’. 3 The Stone Roses. 4 Ike & Tina Turner. 5 Kacey Musgraves. 6 The Rolling Stones. 7 The Outlaws. 8 The Waterboys. 9 Aztec Camera. 10 The Kinks. 11 ‘The Sensual World’. 12 The Move, on ‘I Can Hear the Grass Grow’. 13 Manic Street Preachers. 14 alt-J. 15 Villagers. 16 Panic! At the Disco. 17 The Waterfall. 18 John Denver. 19 Olivia Newton-John. 20 REM. 21 ‘A Waterfall’. 22 Roxy Music. 23 Led Zeppelin. 24 The Deep Dark Woods. 25 Echo & the Bunnymen. 26 The Endless River. 27 The Jayhawks. 28 ‘Mountains’. 29 Idlewild. 30 ‘Into the Valley’. 31 Joe Walsh. 32 ‘River Lea’. 33 Creedence Clearwater Revival. 34 Our Version of Events by Emeli Sandé. 35 Black Mountain. 36 ‘One Tree Hill’. 37 ‘Cotton Fields’, written by Leadbelly and covered by the Beach Boys (as ‘Cottonfields’). 38 ‘Rivers of Babylon’. 39 The Shires. 40 Iron Maiden.
1 Krist Novoselic; Fecal Matter. 2 Sub Pop; $600 ($200 either way is acceptable). 3 He was the drummer; Them Crooked Vultures. 4 ‘Love Buzz’; ‘Sliver’. 5 ‘About a Girl’; the Meat Puppets. 6 ‘In Bloom’ and ‘Come as You Are’. 7 1992; Frances Bean. 8 In Utero; Steve Albini. 9 From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah; the Wishkah is the river that runs through Aberdeen in Washington state, where Kurt Cobain was brought up. 10 Foo Fighters; ‘This Is a Call’. 11 He’s the drummer; Shirley Manson. 12 Romeo + Juliet; The World Is Not Enough. 13 ‘You Know You’re Right’; ‘The Man Who Sold the World’. 14 Hole; they were formed and are fronted by Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain’s widow. 15 Gus van Sant; Journals.
16 Surfer Rosa by Pixies. 17 Version 2.0 by Garbage. 18 Bricks are Heavy by L7. 19 University by Throwing Muses. 20 Vitalogy by Pearl Jam. 21 Superunknown by Soundgarden. 22 Clairvoyance by Screaming Trees. 23 In Utero by Nirvana. 24 Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young. 25 Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge by Mudhoney. 26 Rehab Doll by Green River. 27 Without a Sound by Dinosaur Jr. 28 Wasting Light by Foo Fighters. 29 Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by Smashing Pumpkins. 30 Copper Blue by Sugar.
1 ‘Way Down in the Hole’; Steve Earle. 2 Rilo Kiley; Jonathan Rice. 3 Amen Corner; Augusta National. 4 Iron & Wine; Jesca Hoop. 5 ‘Crocodile Rock’; Bernie Taupin. 6 Zero 7; Sia. 7 ‘10538 Overture’; ‘Xanadu’. 8 Captain Beefheart; the Magic Band. 9 Beck; Odelay. 10 ‘Lola’; ‘Apeman’. 11 The Walkmen; ‘The Rat’. 12 The Byrds; Roger McGuinn.13 Ty Segall; Fuzz. 14 Elvis Costello; ‘A Good Year for the Roses’. 15 Arcade Fire; Merge Records – and they have stayed with them ever since.
16 Nick Lowe; Rockpile. 17 Billy Swan; ‘Don’t Be Cruel’. 18 Men At Work; Business as Usual. 19 Mark Kozelek; Sun Kil Moon. 20 The National; Matt Berenger. 21 Turin Brakes; ‘Pain Killer (Summer Rain)’. 22 Cat Power; The Greatest. 23 The Delgados; Scotland. 24 Split Enz; Crowded House. 25 Feist; Broken Social Scene. 26 Bury. 27 Ivor Novello; the closing ceremony of the London Olympics. 28 Potter; drummer. 29 ‘Grounds for Divorce’; ‘Forget Myself’. 30 Asleep in the Back; Dead in the Boot.
1 Ian Dury & the Blockheads; a top-shelf magazine. 2 ‘Psycho Killer’; ‘Once in a Lifetime’. 3 Squeeze; Jools Holland. 4 The Only Ones; Baby’s Got a Gun. 5 Jerry Harrison; Jonathan Richman. 6 ‘Little Johnny Jewel’; ‘Prove It’. 7 Hugh Cornwell; Baz Warne. 8 ‘(I Love the Sound of) Breaking Glass’ and ‘Cruel to Be Kind’. 9 ‘Take Me to the River’, originally by Al Green; Little Creatures. 10 Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook. 11 The Jam; In the City. 12 John McGeoch; ‘Shot by Both Sides’. 13 ‘Mongoloid’; ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’. 14 ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go’; London Calling. 15 New Boots and Panties; Lord Upminster.
16 ‘So Good to Be Back Home Again’; Eurythmics. 17 ‘(I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea’; ‘(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes’. 18 ‘Denis’; ‘Heart of Glass’. 19 ‘Statue of Liberty’; ‘Senses Working Overtime’. 20 Ultravox; Midge Ure. 21 ‘Down in the Sewer’; ‘(Get a) Grip (on Yourself)’. 22 Steve Nieve; guitar. 23 Joe Jackson; a pair of very cool white shoes, laced at the sides. 24 Get Happy!!; ‘I Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down’. 25 ‘Hanging on the Telephone’; ‘I’m Gonna Love You Too’. 26 Siouxsie & the Banshees; The Scream. 27 The Members; Nicky Tesco. 28 Feargal Sharkey; ‘More Songs About Chocolate and Girls’. 29 Tommy, Marky and Richie; Clem Burke. 30 Bad Religion; Greg Graffin.
1 Travis; The Man Who. 2 REM; Up. 3 Ride; Nowhere. 4 Faithless; Sunday 8pm. 5 The Jesus and Mary Chain; Stoned and Dethroned. 6 Public Enemy; Fear of a Black Planet. 7 Tori Amos; Boys for Pele. 8 Jane’s Addiction; Ritual de lo Habitual. 9 Stone Temple Pilots; Purple. 10 Massive Attack; Blue Lines. 11 Lou Reed; Magic and Loss. 12 M People; Bizarre Fruit. 13 The Wedding Present; Seamonsters. 14 Gin Blossoms; New Miserable Experience. 15 Stereo MCs; Connected.
16 New Order; Republic. 17 My Chemical Romance; Black Parade. 18 Edwyn Collins; Gorgeous George. 19 Jamiroquai; The Return of the Space Cowboy. 20 Cast; Mother Nature Calls. 21 Tindersticks; Curtains. 22 Cypress Hill; Black Sunday. 23 Gomez; Bring It On. 24 The Cardigans; Gran Turismo. 25 The Cranberries; Everybody Else is Doing It So Why Can’t We? 26 Lauryn Hill; The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. 27 Spiritualized; Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space. 28 U2; Achtung Baby. 29 Mercury Rev; Deserter’s Songs. 30 The Divine Comedy; Fin de Siècle.
1 The Song Remains the Same; ‘Moby Dick’. 2 Talking Heads; Jonathan Demme. 3 Concrete; Robbie Williams. 4 The Tube; Squeeze. 5 ‘Summertime Blues’; The Who. 6 Pink; by the recently fallen Berlin Wall. 7 Status Quo; ‘Rockin’ All Over the World’. 8 Blond Ambition; Sticky and Sweet. 9 Paul McCartney; No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded. 10 The Specials; Fox News. 11 The Eagles; Long Road Out of Eden. 12 Harlem, New York (accept New York). ‘Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud’. 13 Eagles of Death Metal; Bataclan. 14 Rollercoaster; Blur. 15 ‘Got to Give It Up’; Florence Lyles.
16 Leeds University; Hull. 17 Philadelphia; Midge Ure. 18 The Rolling Thunder Revue; Joan Baez. 19 Joe Strummer; Rock Against the Rich. 20 The opening ceremony to the 1994 World Cup in the US. Ross had to kick a ball into an open goal, but missed; Oprah Winfrey stumbled and nearly fell off the stage as she introduced her. 21 The Stranglers; ‘Nice ‘N’ Sleazy’. 22 Live8; U2. 23 Misty in Roots; it was the band’s first album – debut albums are rarely live. 24 Neil Young and Crazy Horse; ‘Hey Hey, My My’. 25 John Peel; ‘Reason to Believe’. 26 The Band; Martin Scorsese. 27 When Jack White toured his first solo album, Blunderbuss, he alternated an all-male backing band, the Buzzards, and an all-female one, the Peacocks. 28 New York and San Francisco. 29 The Budokan in Tokyo; The Grateful Dead. 30 Simon & Garfunkel; ‘Mrs Robinson’.
1 Fairport Convention; Dave Swarbrick, who died in 2016. 2 Joe Strummer; Spider Stacy. 3 Ralph McTell; the Anti-Nowhere League. 4 Woody Guthrie; Wilco. 5 Cambridge; Cropredy, near Banbury. 6 Noah & the Whale; Marcus Mumford. 7 Karl Wallinger; the Waterboys. 8 Josh Tillman; Fleet Foxes. 9 Joan Baez; Bob Dylan – the two were lovers for a spell in the sixties. 10 The Saw Doctors; he ‘made an ostentatious contribution’. 11 The Civil Wars; Smashing Pumpkins. 12 Seasick Steve; I Started Out with Nothin’ and I Still Got Most of It Left. 13 Joni Mitchell; ‘Big Yellow Taxi’. 14 Mike Scott; WB Yeats – the album was called An Appointment with Mr Yeats. 15 Be Good Tanyas; Frazey Ford.
16 ‘Fast Car’; the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Concert. 17 Stornoway; Beachcomber’s Windowsill. 18 ‘Theme from Harry’s Game’; Robin of Sherwood. 19 Richard & Linda Thompson; Shoot Out the Lights. 20 ‘Scarborough Fair’; Simon & Garfunkel. 21 They were both titled Live at the Point; ‘Ride On’. 22 Fairground Attraction; Eddi Reader. 23 Still; Jeff Tweedy. 24 Nick Drake; Bryter Later. 25 The Decemberists; The King Is Dead. 26 Steeleye Span; ‘All Around My Hat’. 27 She is Kami Thompson, daughter of Richard and Linda Thompson; Eliza Carthy. 28 Ewan MacColl; Kirsty MacColl. 29 Thea Gilmore; Sandy Denny. 30 Hothouse Flowers; ‘Don’t Go’.
1 The Madcap Laughs; Mick Rock. 2 The Fall; a modern ballet by Michael Clark & Company. 3 In the Land of Grey and Pink; Pye Hastings. 4 Gong; Daevid Allen. 5 Boards of Canada; Tomorrow’s Harvest. 6 Dadaism; birdsong. 7 Pere Ubu; Dirty Carrots. 8 David Sylvian; Japan. 9 King Crimson; Greg Lake. 10 The Residents; who knows? They are as anonymous as Banksy. 11 ‘Car parts, bottles and cutlery’; ‘It’s Oh So Quiet’. 12 They (and a few guests, including Wolfgang’s daughter) recorded music using the drone of 40,000 bees in a hive as a soundscape. The result was the album One, under the band name Be. 13 Sigur Rós; Icelandic (in which they also sing). 14 William Shatner; Seeking Major Tom. 15 Double bass; Tom Waits.
16 Laurie Anderson; Jules Massenet: the full title was ‘O Superman (for Massenet)’. 17 The Velvet Underground; John Cale. 18 The Mothers of Invention; weasels. 19 Stereolab; Australia. 20 Public Service Broadcasting; Wrigglesworth. 21 Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci; Euros Childs. 22 The Creatures; Budgie. 23 Mr Bungle; The Place Beyond the Pines. 24 Joe Jackson; Steve Vai. 25 Efterklang; Denmark. 26 Laibach; Ljubljana in Slovenia. 27 10cc; video – the pair directed their own videos as well as for artists including the Police, INXS, Peter Gabriel and Lou Reed. 28 Brigitte Bardot; Jane Birkin. 29 Tortoise; Jehovah’s Witnesses. 30 The Fall of the House of Usher; Van der Graaf Generator.
1 Jim Morrison; Paris. 2 Def Leppard; Steve Clark. 3 Marvin Gaye; ‘Sexual Healing’. 4 Elvis Presley and Kurt Cobain. 5 Lynyrd Skynyrd; Street Survivors. 6 Average White Band; ‘Pick Up the Pieces’. 7 Marc Bolan; ‘20th Century Boy’. 8 John Lennon; Mark Chapman. 9 Pretenders; ‘Back on the Chain Gang’. 10 Chicago; he shot himself in the head while playing with a gun that he didn’t think was loaded. 11 Nick Drake; Pink Moon. 12 Eddie Cochran; Gene Vincent. 13 The Strawbs and Fairport Convention. 14 Patti Smith; MC5. 15 Kirsty MacColl; Steve Lillywhite.
16 Thin Lizzy; he was the bass player. 17 Mel and Kim (Appleby); ‘Respectable’. 18 Michael Hutchence; Paula Yates. 19 Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. 20 Richie Valens and the Big Bopper. 21 Lowell George; Dixie Chicken. 22 Bob Marley; Peter Tosh. 23 Paul Kossoff; Back Street Crawler. 24 ‘Me and Bobby McGee’; Kris Kristofferson. 25 Keith Moon; Uncle Ernie. 26 Jeff Buckley; he drowned while swimming in the Mississippi. 27 Brian Jones; Mick Taylor. 28 Eva Cassidy; Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac. 29 Aaliyah; R Kelly. 30 Sid Vicious; Sid Sings.
1 Let It Bleed; Bridges to Babylon. 2 Sticky Fingers; a hammer and sickle. 3 Emotional Rescue and Voodoo Lounge. 4 Keyboards; Lisa Fischer. 5 She’s the Boss was by Mick Jagger and Talk Is Cheap was Keith Richards’ debut. 6 ‘Come On’; it was the only song on the record written by Jagger and Richards. 7 ‘Start Me Up’; GRRR!. 8 ‘It’s All Over Now’; ‘Honky Tonk Women’. 9 Some Girls; ‘Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)’. 10 Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out; Madison Square Garden – ‘Love in Vain’, the exception, was recorded in Baltimore.
11 American Idiot; ‘Jesus of Suburbia’. 12 ‘The One I Love’; Out of Time. 13 X&Y; Adele, with 25. 14 William Shakespeare; 72 weeks (score one point for ten weeks either side). 15 Everything Must Go; Nicky Wire. 16 Mylo Xyloto; Gwyneth Paltrow. 17 Singer Michael Stipe and guitarist Peter Buck. 18 ‘The Love of Richard Nixon’; ‘Your Love Alone Is Not Enough’. 19 ‘Geek Stink Breath’; ‘Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)’. 20 Collapse into Now; Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982-2011 (you don’t need the years to get the points).
21 Automatic for the People; ‘Crush with Eyeliner’ is on Monster. 22 . . . And Justice for All; ‘Enter Sandman’ is on Metallica. 23 A Rush of Blood to the Head; ‘Yellow’ is on Parachutes. 24 Powerage; ‘Touch Too Much’ is on Highway to Hell. 25 Babel; ‘Dust Bowl Dance’ is on Sigh No More. 26 Exile on Main Street; ‘Angie’ is on Goat’s Head Soup. 27 Stadium Arcadium; ‘Dosed’ is on By the Way. 28 Empire; ‘Goodbye Kiss’ is on Velociraptor!. 29 Dookie; ‘Nice Guys Finish Last’ is on Nimrod. 30 The Holy Bible; ‘Motorcycle Emptiness’ is on Generation Terrorists.
1 4AD; This Mortal Coil. 2 Stax (Atlantic); green – ‘Green Onions’ was the band’s big hit. 3 Phil Spector; ‘Happy Xmas (War Is Over)’. 4 Sub Pop; Seattle. 5 Jim Steinman; Todd Rundgren. 6 Nude; One Little Indian. 7 They were all produced by Phil Spector; ‘The Long and Winding Road’. 8 Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry; Arkology. 9 Island Records; The Joshua Tree. 10 Paul Epworth; Florence + the Machine. 11 Paul Oakenfold; Perfecto. 12 Josh Homme; James Ford. 13 Alan McGee; Poptones. 14 Trevor Horn; ZTT. 15 Rough Trade; Beggars Group.
16 Stephen Street; Parklife by Blur. 17 Stargate; Rihanna. 18 Brian Epstein; Parlophone. 19 Factory Records; Tony Wilson. 20 Kevin Campbell; Mark Morrison. 21 Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno. 22 Tony Visconti; Badfinger. 23 EMI; Virgin Records – who were eventually bought by EMI. 24 Domino; Sheffield. 25 Tuff Gong; Island. 26 Death Row Records; Suge Knight. 27 Island Records; Polygram – both are now subsidiaries of Universal. 28 Bella Union; Cocteau Twins. 29 1983 – two points if you got it spot on, or one point if you said anywhere from 1981 to 1985. 30 Nick Lowe; Armed Forces.
1 Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings; Amy Winehouse (Mark Ronson used the New York studio for much of the work on Back to Black). 2 Bruno Mars; Prince. 3 The New Power Generation; O2 Arena. 4 Saxophone; James Brown. 5 The JB’s; Bootsy Collins. 6 ‘One Nation Under a Groove’; ‘TEAR the ROOF off the SUCKER’. 7 ‘Tell Me Something Good’; Chaka Khan. 8 Melle Mel; Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. 9 He played harmonica; Philip Bailey. 10 ‘September’; ‘The Best of My Love’. 11 The Staple Singers; Curtis Mayfield. 12 Super Fly; The Impressions. 13 The Isley Brothers; Rod Stewart; 14 Jimi Hendrix; Otis Redding. 15 Charles Bradley; Daptone (and we’ve gone full circle).
16 Dexy’s Midnight Runners; Kevin Rowland. 17 Wigan Casino; Northern Soul. 18 Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey. 19 Twelve; ‘Superstition’. 20 Erykah Badu; André 3000 of Outkast. 21 Sam Cooke; ‘Summertime’. 22 D’Angelo; Voodoo. 23 ‘Across 110th Street’; Sam Cooke. 24 ‘Teardrops’, The xx. 25 ‘When a Man Loves a Woman and ‘Stand By Me’. 26 Ben E. King; ‘Kissing in the Back Row of the Movies’. 27 ‘Freeway of Love’; The Blues Brothers. 28 Smokey Robinson; ‘Tears of a Clown’. 29 ‘Tracks of My Tears’; ‘Love Machine’. 30 Joss Stone; SuperHeavy.
1 ZZ Top. 2 Grandaddy. 3 Magazine. 4 Clannad. 5 Augustines. 6 The Stooges. 7 Eddie and the Hot Rods. 8 The Pigeon Detectives. 9 Fugees. 10 The Sweet. 11 The Feeling. 12 Teenage Fanclub. 13 The E Street Band. 14 McFly. 15 Interpol. 16 Crazy Horse. 17 Blink 182. 18 Fleet Foxes. 19 The Spinners. 20 My Chemical Romance. 21 Buffalo Springfield. 22 Three Degrees. 23 Underworld. 24 De La Soul. 25 Love. 26 Mercury Rev. 27 Jane’s Addiction. 28 The Hollies. 29 Elastica. 30 The Band.
31 Traffic. 32 Ride. 33 Bad Company. 34 Booker T and the MGs. 35 The Primitives. 36 Thee Oh Sees. 37 Lush. 38 Third Eye Blind. 39 Wilco. 40 The Horrors. 41 The Go-Gos. 42 Fall Out Boy. 43 Chvrches. 44 Kid Creole and the Coconuts. 45 The Hold Steady. 46 Dsiclosure. 47 Psychedelic Furs. 48 Crystal Castles. 49 Local Natives. 50 Aswad. 51 The Bravery. 52 Girls Aloud. 53 Simple Minds. 54 The Jam; 55 The The. 56 Thompson Twins. 57 Black Angels. 58 Barclay James Harvest. 59 The Dream Syndicate. 60 Biffy Clyro.
1 Jimi Hendrix Experience; The Animals. 2 The Spencer Davis Group; Steve and Muff Winwood (Winwood will do it). 3 The Easybeats; Australia. 4 The Crystals; Darlene Love. 5 The Cavern; Focus. 6 False – Dave was the drummer; ‘Glad All Over’. 7 The Animals; Frijid Pink. 8 Grace Slick; she formed a new band called Jefferson Starship. 9 Paul Jones; Cream. 10 ‘Good Vibrations’; ‘Do It Again’. 11 My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair . . . But Now They’re Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows. 12 Tom Jones; ‘Green, Green Grass of Home’. 13 The Pretty Things; the Rolling Stones. 14 Them; Van Morrison. 15 ‘Silence Is Golden’; Brian Poole.
16 Syd Barrett; David Gilmour. 17 Georgie Fame; the Blue Flames. 18 The Seekers; Judith Durham. 19 Arthur Lee; 1967. 20 ‘You Really Got Me’; Ray Davies. 21 A total of 24, from Kinks in 1964 to Phobia in 1993. 22 PJ Proby; ‘Hold Me’. 23 ‘I Can Hear the Grass Grow’; ‘Flowers in the Rain’. 24 The Hollies; ‘He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother’. 25 The Small Faces; ‘Lazy Sunday’. 26 The Monkees; Bob Rafelson. 27 The Searchers; ‘Needles and Pins’. 28 Christine Perfect; ‘I’d Rather Go Blind’. 29 The Doors; Strange Days. 30 The Yardbirds; John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers.
1 Mark Knopfler. 2 Private Dancer (Knopfler wrote the title track). 3 ‘I Might Have Been Queen’. 4 A Night at the Opera. 5 ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. 6 ‘Bohemian Like You’. 7 The Velvet Underground and Nico. 8 Lou Reed. 9 Metallica. 10 ‘One’. 11 Johnny Cash. 12 Rick Rubin. 13 Red Hot Chili Peppers. 14 Danger Mouse. 15 ‘Crazy’. 16 Patsy Cline. 17 ‘Sweet Dreams’. 18 Eurythmics. 19 Clem Burke. 20 Atomic Kitten. 21 It is the name of the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. 22 The Stranglers. 23 Dionne Warwick. 24 The Gibb brothers (accept the Bee Gees). 25 It wasn’t used in the film. 26 Barry Gibb (don’t accept the Bee Gees). 27 Frankie Valli; 28 ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ (the link is that ‘December 1963 (Oh What A Night)’ was a hit for Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons). 29 Dave Clark Five. 30 ‘Bits and Pieces’.
31 ‘I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll’. 32 Britney Spears. 33 Matthew Sweet. 34 The Bangles. 35 ‘Walk Like an Egyptian’. 36 ‘Egyptian Reggae’. 37 The Great Rock ‘n ‘Roll Swindle. 38 Dr Feelgood. 39 Wilko Johnson. 40 Pete Townshend (accept the Who). 41 Phil Daniels (the film was Quadrophenia). 42 Sting. 43 ‘Message in a Bottle’ – the band was the Police. 44 UB40. 45 ‘I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You’. 46 Moody Blue. 47 The Moody Blues. 48 Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds. 49 Phil Lynott. 50 Gary Moore. 51 Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac. 52 ‘Albatross’. 53 Stevie Nicks. 54 Tom Petty. 55 Bob Dylan. 56 The Travelling Wilburys. 57 Pretty Woman used the song ‘Oh, Pretty Woman’ by Roy Orbison and borrowed its name for the film title. 58 Julia Roberts was also in Notting Hill. 59 The Notting Hillbillies, a side project of Mark Knopfler. 60 Dire Straits – and so the circle is closed.
1 The Mountain Goats; Mexican professional wrestling. 2 BEF (British Electric Foundation); Dark. 3 Big Star; the Box Tops. 4 Talk Talk; Mark Hollis. 5 Tom Waits; Mule Variations. 6 Was (Not Was); ‘Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone’. 7 Guided by Voices; Suitcases. 8 Baader Meinhof; Black Box Recorder. 9 Sparklehorse; Dark Night of the Soul. 10 Luna; Tom Verlaine. 11 Jason Pierce; Spacemen 3. 12 Violent Femmes; ‘Blister in the Sun’. 13 The Avalanches; Wildflower. 14 My Bloody Valentine; Creation Records. 15 The Tubes; ‘White Punks on Dope’.
16 Young Marble Giants; Colossal Youth. 17 ‘While turning you blue’; Billy MacKenzie. 18 ‘Wordy Rappinghood’; the Drifters. 19 The B52s; Fred Schneider. 20 Black Francis, aka Frank Black; Pixies. 21 Cud; Rich and Strange. 22 Grizzly Bear; Veckatimest. 23 60 Ft Dolls; ‘Happy Shopper’. 24 Bristol; Beth Gibbons. 25 ‘Voodoo Ray’; Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. 26 The Durutti Column; Morrissey. 27 Jaz Coleman; Killing Joke. 28 The Sopranos; ‘Woke Up this Morning’. 29 Deerhoof; ‘La Isla Bonita’. 30 The Wedding Present; the Ukrainians.
1 Nebraska; ‘Born in the USA’ – Springsteen released the demo to clear up any supposed ambiguities about the song’s lyrics after it was hijacked as a jingoistic anthem. 2 Julianne Phillips; Tunnel of Love. 3 ‘Streets of Philadelphia’ from the movie Philadelphia; The Ghost of Tom Joad. 4 ‘57 Channels (and Nothin’ On)’; Lucky Town. 5 ‘American Skin (41 Shots)’; High Hopes. 6 Pete Seeger – the album is called We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions; Dublin – the live release was called Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band: Live in Dublin. 7 Working on a Dream; ‘Outlaw Pete’. 8 Lilyhammer, which starred and was co-written and co-produced by E Street band member Steven van Zandt; ‘Hunter of Invisible Game’. 9 Paul McCartney; Clarence Clemons, founder member and the band’s saxophonist, who was saluted during a rendition of ‘Tenth Avenue Freeze Out’ on the rest of the tour. 10 Patti Scialfa; equestrianism.
11 ‘ . . . On a last chance power drive’. 12 ‘ . . . Fix your hair up pretty’. 13 ‘ . . . Down along the strand’. 14 ‘ . . . No flowers, no wedding dress’. 15 ‘ . . . Kill the yellow man’. 16 ‘ . . . Hotter than hell’. 17 ‘ . . . An eye for an eye’. 18 ‘ . . . Trouble in the heartland’. 19 ‘ . . . Freight train running through the middle of my head’. 20 ‘ . . . Please don’t stop me’.
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21 Darkness on the Edge of Town; ‘State Trooper’ is on Nebraska. 22 Wrecking Ball; ‘Hunter of Invisible Game’ is on High Hopes. 23 Born in the USA; ‘Hungry Heart’ is on The River. 24 Magic; ‘Maria’s Bed’ is on Devils and Dust. 25 The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle; ‘Mary Queen of Arkansas’ is on Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ. 26 Tunnel of Love; ‘If I Should Fall Behind’ is on Lucky Town. 27 The Promise; ‘Adam Raised a Cain’ was on Darkness on the Edge of Town – The Promise is the album of outtakes from these sessions. 28 Nebraska; ‘Youngstown’ is on The Ghost of Tom Joad. 29 Born to Run; ‘New York City Serenade’ is on The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle. 30 The Rising; ‘My Best Was Never Good Enough’ is on The Ghost of Tom Joad.
1 Captain & Tennille. 2 Donna Summer. 3 Barry White. 4 ‘Lady Marmalade’. 5 Air. 6 Steely Dan. 7 The Pretenders. 8 Britt Ekland. 9 James Brown. 10 1984. 11 ‘Foxy Lady’. 12 Madonna. 13 ‘Hustle’. 14 Prince. 15 ‘Night Nurse’. 16 Robbie Williams. 17 ‘Roxanne’. 18 Arctic Monkeys. 19 ‘Across [his] big brass bed’. 20 ‘Love Machine’, by the Miracles. 21 The Felice Brothers. 22 George Michael. 23 ‘Come Baby Come’. 24 Hot Chocolate. 25 James, on ‘Laid’. 26 Marvin Gaye. 27 ‘Sex on the Beach’. 28 Justin Timberlake. 29 ‘Lick My Love Pump’. 30 Blondie. 31 ‘Please Be Naked’. 32 Gang of Four. 33 Kings of Leon. 34 Salt-n-Pepa. 35 ‘Adolescent Sex’. 36 Prince. 37 Mousse T. 38 ‘Do Me, Baby’. 39 Pulp. 40 ‘Let’s Spend the Night Together’.
1 Masturbation; ‘Turning Japanese’. 2 Steve Earle; the Dixie Chicks. 3 ‘Things Can Only Get Better’; ‘Lifted’. 4 Neil Young; Kent State. 5 Peter Gabriel; 619. 6 ‘People Have the Power’; Bruce Springsteen. 7 Revolution 9 (just ‘Revolution’ is not enough, as the album also contains the very different ‘Revolution 1’; ‘Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey’. 8 ‘Give Peace a Chance’ and ‘Cold Turkey’. 9 Woody Guthrie; ‘God Bless America’. 10 Thanks to the line ‘He got monkey finger/He shoot Coca-Cola’, thereby contravening the BBC’s ban on advertising in songs; ‘Lola’, though the band changed the offending lyric to ‘cherry cola’ to get round the ban. 11 Brenda Spencer; ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ – it was Spencer’s reply to a journalist’s question about why she had committed the murders. 12 The Falklands War; Dylan Thomas. 13 Screaming Lord Sutch, the self-styled 3rd Earl of Harrow; he formed and became leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, standing in and losing more than 40 different elections. 14 Midnight Oil; ‘Beds Are Burning’. 15 Rage Against the Machine; the New York Stock Exchange.
16 Billy Bragg; Life’s a Riot with Spy vs Spy. 17 Paul McCartney (the record was credited to Paul McCartney & Wings); Stiff Little Fingers. 18 Stonehenge, Wiltshire; the Levellers. 19 Linton Kwesi Johnson; Dennis Bovell. 20 Tom Robinson Band; Power in the Darkness. 21 ‘For What It’s Worth’; the Whisky a Go Go, often referred to as simply the Whisky. 22 Simon Fowler; ‘Profit in Peace’. 23 Manic Street Preachers; ‘Theme from M*A*S*H (Suicide is Painless)’. 24 Lemonheads; Evan Dando. 25 kd Lang; Melissa Etheridge. 26 Scritti Politti – the actual Italian translation of ‘political writings’ is ‘scritti politici’; the Communards. 27 The Human League were singing about John F Kennedy, while U2 were paying tribute to Martin Luther King. 28 Black Flag; Henry Rollins, erstwhile BBC 6 Music presenter. 29 Pussy Riot; House of Cards. 30 Ronald Reagan in 1984; John McCain, the Republican nominee.
1 She was 19; The Kick Inside. 2 ‘The Man with the Child in His Eyes’, ‘Babooshka’, ‘Running up that Hill’ (twice), ‘King of the Mountain’ and ‘Don’t Give Up’, a duet with Peter Gabriel. 3 The Ninth Wave. 4 A Sky of Honey. 5 Never for Ever; ‘Breathing’; Roy Harper. 6 ‘King of the Mountain’; ‘Sexual Healing’. 7 The Sensual World and The Red Shoes. 8 ‘Running Up That Hill’ 9 Hammersmith Apollo; Before the Dawn. 10 Albert McIntosh – aka Bertie, Kate Bush’s son.
11 Feels Like Home and Not Too Late. 12 ‘Cornflake Girl’; ‘Pretty Good Year’. 13 Anastacia; Not That Kind. 14 Lily Allen; ‘Hard Out Here’. 15 Armand van Helden; Courtney Love. 16 Two; Flex. 17 Marianne Faithfull; Steve Earle. 18 Ellie Goulding; Fifty Shades of Grey. 19 ‘Fuck Me Pumps’; ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?’. 20 Daybreaker; Johnny Marr.
21 Avril Lavigne. 22 Beth Jeans Houghton. 23 KT Tunstall. 24 Beth Orton. 25 Ani DiFranco. 26 Emeli Sandé. 27 Joan as Policewoman. 28 Courtney Barnett. 29 Björk. 30 Lana Del Rey.
1 Alex Harvey; he was electrocuted while playing an outdoor gig on a wet stage. 2 ‘On the docks’; Slippery When Wet. 3 Wishbone Ash; Argus. 4 Bachman-Turner Overdrive; You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet. 5 Axl Rose and Slash – the three were the other original members of Guns ’n Roses. 6 Steve Harris; Nicko McBrain. 7 The Yardbirds (get a bonus point if you also said the New Yardbirds); Band of Joy. 8 Biffy Clyro; ‘Get Lucky’. 9 Alice Cooper; Welcome 2 My Nightmare. 10 Eliminator; ‘Viva Las Vegas’. 11 Part II: Back into Hell and Part III: The Monster Is Loose. 12 ‘The Boys Are Back in Town’; ‘Johnny the Fox’. 13 ‘Highway to Hell’; ‘Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be’. 14 Are You Gonna Go My Way; Cinna, though you also get a point if you knew he played Katniss Everdeen’s stylist but couldn’t remember the character’s name. 15 David Coverdale; Whitesnake.
1 The Who, Who’s Next. 2 Rainbow, Rainbow Rising. 3 Neil Young, American Stars n Bars. 4 Black Mountain, In the Future. 5 Deep Purple, In Rock. 6 Black Sabbath, Paranoid. 7 Helloween, Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II. 8 The War on Drugs, Lost in the Dream. 9 Green Day, American Idiot. 10 Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti. 11 Lynyrd Skynyrd, (Pronounced ‘Lĕh-’nérd ‘Skin-’nérd). 12 Meat Loaf, Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell. 13 Sisters of Mercy, Floodland. 14 Queen, A Night at the Opera. 15 Iron Maiden, Powerslave.
1 Deacon Blue; ‘Real Gone Kid’. 2 Power, Corruption and Lies; ‘Blue Monday’. 3 Chris Lowe; Johnny Marr. 4 Adam & the Ants; ‘Go Wild in the Country’. 5 ‘Sledgehammer’; Kate Bush. 6 The Bluebells; Siobhan Fahey of Bananarama. 7 Robert Palmer; Chic. 8 Philip Oakey; ‘Together in Electric Dreams’. 9 ‘Red, Red Wine’; Chrissie Hynde. 10 ‘The Model’ by Kraftwerk; ‘Computer Love’, which reached 36 – the single was then re-released with ‘The Model’ as the A-side when radio plays revealed it to be the more popular song. 11 Wham!; ‘Careless Whisper’. 12 Camden Palace; Visage. 13 ‘Bring on the Dancing Horses’; Pretty in Pink. 14 The Christians; it was the surname of the three brothers who formed the band with ex-Yachts guitarist Henry Priestman. 15 ‘Time After Time’ and ‘I Drove All Night’.
1 Haircut One Hundred. 2 Curiosity Killed the Cat. 3 Eurythmics. 4 Tanita Tikaram. 5 Howard Jones. 6 Transvision Vamp. 7 Spandau Ballet. 8 Mike + the Mechanics. 9 Bon Jovi. 10 Dire Straits.
1 Fern Kinney. 2 Sister Sledge. 3 The Bee Gees – Hot Chocolate’s hit with a similar title was ‘So You Win Again’ and came out ten years earlier. 4 Duran Duran. 5 Tight Fit. 6 Simple Minds. 7 Paul Hardcastle. 8 Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers. 9 Don McLean. 10 Enya.
1980 – Flesh and Blood. 1981 – Wired for Sound. 1982 – The Gift. 1983 – The Art of Falling Apart. 1984 – The Riddle. 1985 – Misplaced Childhood. 1986 – Through the Barricades. 1987 – Solitude Standing. 1988 – The Raw and the Cooked. 1989 – The Seeds of Love.
1 South Pacific; ‘Wot’. 2 Cliff Richard; ‘Foot Tapper’ by the Shadows. 3 ‘Here Comes the Summer’; John O’Neill. 4 ‘Teenage Kicks’; Good Vibrations – also the name of the Belfast label. 5 ‘All That She Wants’; Roxette. 6 ‘Celebration’; Kylie Minogue. 7 The Housemartins; London 0 Hull 4. 8 ‘Let’s Have a Party’; Dead Poets Society. 9 Robin Williams; Meher Baba. 10 ‘Reasons to be Cheerful’;’ Part III’ – Ian Dury and the Blockheads song. 11 ‘Beautiful Day’; The Premiership on ITV1. 12 ‘Good Times’; Franklin D Roosevelt. 13 Louis Armstrong; Bowling for Columbine. 14 ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams; Despicable Me 2. 15 ‘Feeling Good’; Muse.
16 Murder Ballads; Kylie Minogue. 17 Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand. The producer allegedly put the mix together as a parting shot at his wife, whom he was divorcing. 18 Ricky Valance; he enters a stock-car race and is killed when his car overturns. 19 Patsy Cline; The Jordanaires. 20 ‘Thin Line Between Love and Hate’; The Pretenders; 21 On their ‘Shitlist’; Butch Vig. 22 Hooray for Boobies; Chasey Lain: ‘The Ballad of Chasey Lain’. 23 ‘Picking up rice in the church’; Father McKenzie. 24 Clapham; her poodles. 25 Daniel Powter; Alvin and the Chipmunks. 26 Dr Hook and the Medicine Show; Marianne Faithfull. 27 ‘Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now’; The Moors Murders. 28 The Handsome Family; True Detective. 29 The Adverts; The Police. 30 ‘1952 Vincent Black Lightning’; Red Molly.
1 The Royal Albert Hall in London; ‘Shadowplay’. 2 Ray Charles; ‘I Can’t Stop Loving You’. 3 They’re the songs in the medley that made up the 2009 Children in Need song, orchestrated by comedian Peter Kay and credited to Peter Kay’s Animated All Star Band. 4 Neil Young and Pearl Jam. 5 Glenn Miller; the plane in which he was travelling to entertain troops went missing over the English Channel. 6 Robbie Williams (29); it was the first Now! album to be released digitally as well as in physical form. 7 Steven Van Zandt; Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine. 8 Jimi Hendrix; John Lennon – they’re the only two artists from the world of post-war popular music to be deemed worthy of an English Heritage blue plaque. 9 Marianne Faithfull; Broken English. 10 The US House of Representatives; Cher. 11 Imelda Marcos; Fatboy Slim. 12 Miles Davis; Bill Evans. 13 Rod Stewart; Time. 14 This gobbledegook contains 12 of the Pet Shop Boys’ 13 single-word album titles; the missing word/title is Elysium. 15 Whigfield; ‘Saturday Night’.
16 Chas & Dave; ‘Rabbit’. 17 Karen Elson; Get Behind Me Satan. 18 Paul McCartney; ‘behold my heart’. 19 The First Men and the Vaudeville. 20 Drake, with ‘One Dance’; Wizkid. 21 Shania Twain; Come on Over. 22 Edwyn Collins; ‘The Possibilities Are Endless’. 23 ‘Strangers in the Night’; ‘I’ve Got You Under My Skin’. 24 Lemmy; Motörhead got their name from a Hawkwind song. 25 Ronnie Scott; Pete King. 26 The Duckworth Lewis Method, the complicated statistical method by which the results of rain-affected one-day cricket matches are calculated; ‘Meeting Mr Miandad’, a reference to former Pakistani batsman Javed Miandad. 27 This Is the Sea; Hastings. 28 The Brodsky Quartet; Burt Bacharach. 29 Kim Carnes and Cyndi Lauper. 30 Acker Bilk; ‘Stranger on the Shore’.
1 George W. Bush; ‘2 + 2 = 5’. 2 Jonny Greenwood and Ed O’Brien. 3 The Unbelievable Truth. 4 Atoms for Peace; Flea. 5 Kid A; A Moon Shaped Pool. 6 Humphrey Lyttelton. 7 ‘Spectre’; it was written as the theme for a James Bond movie, but was rejected. 8 True Stories; On a Friday. 9 There Will Be Blood. 10 ‘Burn the Witch’; Paul Thomas Anderson – Jonny Greenwood has previously written film scores for the director. 11 Meeting People Is Easy; OK Computer. 12 ‘Nude’. 13 ‘Creep’, ‘Street Spirit (Fade Out)’, ‘Paranoid Android’, ‘Karma Police’, ‘No Surprises’, ‘Pyramid Song’ and ‘There There’. 14 Kid A and Amnesiac. 15 ‘Harry Patch (In Memory of)’.
16 Death Cab for Cutie; the name came from a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. 17 David Byrne and St Vincent. 18 The Orb; The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld. 19 Martha Wainwright; ‘Chasing Cars’. 20 Animal Collective; Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper. 21 808 State; ‘Pacific State’. 22 Lush; Jarvis Cocker. 23 The Catherine Wheel; Tanya Donelly. 24 Super Furry Animals; Gary Speed, former manager of the Wales football team. 25 Felt; Lawrence. 26 Richard Hawley; Sheffield. 27 Goat; Sweden. 28 Flaming Lips; each flash drive was contained in a real human skull. 29 It’s the running time of the album; everything is in lower case. 30 Arcade Fire; Spike Jonze.
1 The Vaccines; Come of Age. 2 Hot Chip; Made in the Dark. 3 Kanye West; My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. 4 Air; Talkie Walkie. 5 Savages; Silence Yourself. 6 Jay-Z; The Blueprint. 7 PJ Harvey; Let England Shake. 8 Beach House; Bloom. 9 Athlete; Vehicles & Animals. 10 Moby; 18. 11 Adele; 21. 12 Bloc Party; Silent Alarm. 13 Flaming Lips; Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. 14 Lady Gaga; The Fame. 15 Hard-Fi; Stars of CCTV.
16 Dido; Life for Rent. 17 Kings of Leon; Aha Shake Heartbreak. 18 KT Tunstall; Tiger Suit. 19 First Aid Kit; Stay Gold. 20 Coldplay; X&Y. 21 Arctic Monkeys; Suck It and See. 22 The Darkness: Permission to Land. 23 Kaiser Chiefs; Employment. 24 Paul Simon; Stranger to Stranger. 25 Red Hot Chili Peppers; By the Way. 26 Rihanna; Loud. 27 Madonna; Hard Candy. 28 Editors; In This Light and On This Evening. 29 Tinie Tempah; Demonstration. 30 Foals: Hold Fire.
1 Stornoway; Beachcomber’s Windowsill. 2 George Ezra; Wanted On Voyage. 3 Biffy Clyro; Only Revolutions. 4 Maccabees; Marks to Prove It. 5 Joanna Newsom; Ys. 6 Savages; Silence Yourself. 7 Pharrell Williams; G I R L. 8 Avenged Sevenfold; Hail to the King. 9 Years & Years; Communion. 10 Kate Bush; Aerial. 11 Goldfrapp; Supernature. 12 Mumford & Sons; Sigh No More. 13 The Go! Team; Proof of Youth.14 Florence + the Machine; Lungs. 15 Lily Allen; Alright, Still.
16 The Libertines; Up the Bracket. 17 Rudimental; We the Generation. 18 The Streets; Original Pirate Material. 19 Muse; Black Holes and Revelations. 20 Ellie Goulding; Halcyon. 21 The Horrors; Skying. 22 Paul Weller; Wake up the Nation. 23 alt-J; An Awesome Wave. 24 David Bowie; Blackstar. 25 Hozier; Hozier. 26 The Tears; Here Come the Tears. 27 Drake; Views. 28 Laura Marling; Alas, I Cannot Swim. 29 The Last Shadow Puppets; The Age of the Understatement. 30 James Blake; Overgrown.
1 Björk; Dancer in the Dark. 2 Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. 3 Grace Jones; Duran Duran. 4 Isaac Hayes; Escape from New York. 5 Tom Waits; Renfield, the fly-obsessed madman in the asylum. 6 Facebook; Justin Timberlake. 7 Hustler; Courtney Love. 8 Mariah Carey; The Bachelor. 9 Cher; Moonstruck. 10 Mark Wahlberg; Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. 11 Videodrome; Hairspray. 12 Ringo Starr; Adam Faith. 13 Meat Loaf; Susan Sarandon. 14 Phil Collins; Roger Daltrey. 15 P Diddy (as Sean Combs); Snoop Dogg.
1 Aaron Johnson. 2 Reese Witherspoon. 3 Gary Oldman. 4 Jamie Foxx. 5 Andy Serkis. 6 Kristen Stewart. 7 Cate Blanchett. 8 Corey Hawkins. 9 Tom Hiddleston. 10 Val Kilmer. 11 Jessica Lange. 12 Joaquin Phoenix. 13 Angela Bassett. 14 Dennis Quaid, 15 Sissy Spacek.
1 Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band. 2 Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. 3 Genesis. 4 Queen. 5 Bob Marley and the Wailers. 6 Roy Harper. 7 Slits. 8 The Fall. 9 The Undertones. 10 The Specials. 11 Gary Numan. 12 Billy Bragg. 13 The Smiths. 14 Bhundu Boys. 15 Napalm Death. 16 The Jesus and Mary Chain. 17 Loudon Wainwright III. 18 Teenage Fanclub. 19 Pavement. 20 Orbital. 21 Black Star Liner. 22 Guided By Voices. 23 Scarfo. 24 Calexico. 25 Yo La Tengo. 26 Mogwai. 27 Dinosaur Jr. 28 Camera Obscura. 29 White Stripes. 30 Low.
31 Joy Division; New Order. 32 The Sundays; Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. 33 Cinerama; The Wedding Present. 34 Rob Da Bank; The Fall (‘Theme from Sparta FC Part 2’). 35 Dandelion Radio; ‘I’m Your Boyfriend Now’. 36 Tim Buckley and This Mortal Coil. 37 ‘How Soon Is Now?’ and ‘There is a Light that Never Goes Out’. 38 ‘Radio London’; Top Gear. 39 John Walters; the pig. 40 Liverpool; ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’. 41 Billy Bragg; Life’s a Riot with Spy vs Spy. 42 ‘Another Girl, Another Planet’; John Perry. 43 The Undertones; It is on his gravestone. 44 6 Music’s own Tom Ravenscroft (Peel’s real surname was Ravenscroft); Margrave of the Marshes. 45 ‘God Only Knows’ and ‘Good Vibrations’.
1 ‘The Wild Boys’; Arlene Phillips. 2 ‘Crossfire’; Charlize Theron. 3 ‘Ray of Light’; Guy Ritchie. 4 ‘My Name Is’; Dr Dre. 5 Bootsy Collins; Christopher Walken. 6 ‘The Boys of Summer’; Madonna. 7 Britney Spears’ ‘ . . . Baby One More Time’; Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’. 8 Godley & Creme; 10cc. 9 ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’; Scarlett Johansson. 10 ‘Bad Romance’; Alexander McQueen. 11 ‘I Want to Break Free’; Wembley Stadium. 12 Terry Gilliam; Donald Sutherland. 13 ‘When Doves Cry’; Prince himself directed it. 14 Matt Lucas; Damien Hirst. 15 ‘Sledgehammer’; Aardman Animations, now most famous for Nick Park’s creations Wallace and Gromit.
1 Michael Bay – Pearl Harbor and Meatloaf. 2 Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker and New Order. 3 Tim Burton – Sleepy Hollow and the Killers. 4 Sofia Coppola – The Virgin Suicides and White Stripes. 5 Jonathan Demme – The Silence of the Lambs and Tom Tom Club. 6 Brian de Palma – Carrie and Bruce Springsteen. 7 David Fincher – Fight Club and Aerosmith. 8 Jonathan Glazer – Sexy Beast and Radiohead. 9 Michel Gondry – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Foo Fighters. 10 Spike Jonze – Being John Malkovich and Björk. 11 Jon Landis – The Blues Brothers and Michael Jackson. 12 Spike Lee – Do the Right Thing and Public Enemy. 13 John Maybury – Edge of Love and Sinéad O’Connor. 14 Michael Moore – Bowling for Columbine and Rage Against the Machine. 15 Gus van Sant – Drugstore Cowboy and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
1 Public Enemy; Def Jam. 2 Broken Social Scene; You Forgot It In People. 3 David Bowie; ‘Perfect Day’. 4 Franz Ferdinand; the Austrian Archduke whose assassination by Gavrilo Princip led to the outbreak of the First World War. 5 The Soundtrack of Our Lives; Gothenburg, Sweden. 6 Three Imaginary Boys; Boys Don’t Cry. 7 1977; ‘The Chain’, now the theme tune to TV coverage of Formula 1.8 Sonic Youth; ‘Teen Age Riot’. 9 Script of the Bridge; Mark Burgess; 10 Cocteau Twins; Elizabeth Fraser. 11 Felt Mountain; Will Gregory. 12 Tindersticks; it was simply called Tindersticks, the same as its predecessor. 13 Siouxsie and the Banshees; ‘Happy House’. 14 ‘Bedsitter’ and ‘Say Hello, Wave Goodbye’. 15 Give ‘em Enough Rope; ‘I Can’t Explain’.
16 Television; Marquee Moon. 17 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part. 18 Sinéad O’Connor; The Lion and the Cobra. 19 Thin Lizzy; Jailbreak. 20 Paul Young; No Parlez. 21 Calexico, Carried to Dust. 22 Otis Redding; Otis Blue. 23 The Who; Who’s Next. 24 Fun Lovin’ Criminals; Come Find Yourself. 25 Tina Turner; Private Dancer. 26 Bruce Springsteen; Wrecking Ball. 27 James; Laid. 28 The Civil Wars; Barton Hollow. 29 The Jam; Setting Sons.30 Bob Marley and the Wailers; Exodus.
1 ‘There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)’. 2 Nick and Woody Woodgate: Woody is the drummer in Madness. 3 Tourist History (2010); Beacon (2012); Gameshow (2016). 4 ‘West End Girls’; ‘It’s a Sin’; ‘Always on My Mind’; ‘Heart’. 5 Holly (Woodlawn); Candy (Darling); Little Joe (Dallesandro); Sugar Plum Fairy (Joe Campbell); Jackie (Curtis). 5 Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not; Favourite Worst Nightmare; Humbug; Suck It and See; A.M. 6 Boy; October; War; The Unforgettable Fire; The Joshua Tree; Rattle and Hum. 7 Definitely Maybe; (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?; Be Here Now; Standing on the Shoulder of Giants; Heathen Chemistry; Don’t Believe the Truth; Dig Out Your Soul. 8 ‘Chasing Pavements’; ‘Make You Feel My Love’; ‘Rolling in the Deep’; ‘Someone Like You’; ‘Skyfall’; ‘Hello’; ‘When We Were Young’; ‘Send My Love (To Your New Lover). 9 Kill ‘em All; Ride the Lightning; Master of Puppets; . . . And Justice for All; Metallica; Load; Reload; St Anger; Death Magnetic. 10 ‘Co-co’; ‘Little Willy’; ‘Wig-Wam Bam’; ‘Block Buster’; Hell Raiser’; ‘The Ballroom Blitz’; Teenage Rampage; The Six Teens’; ‘Fox on the Run’; ‘Love is Like Oxygen’.
1 Patti Smith; Robert Mapplethorpe. 2 Nick Cave; And the Ass Saw the Angel. 3 Greil Marcus; ‘Like a Rolling Stone’. 4 David Byrne; How Music Works. 5 Madonna; Binah. 6 Punk rock; John Lydon. 7 Andrew Loog Oldham; Stanley Booth. 8 Lester Bangs; Philip Seymour Hoffman. 9 Timothy White; The Beach Boys. 10 Kurt Cobain; Heavier Than Heaven. 11 . . . Disappearing Ink; Brett Easton Ellis. 12 Stuart Maconie; Simon Armitage. 13 Nick Kent; The Dark Stuff. 14 The Kinks and Steely Dan. 15 Voidoids; Bob Dylan
1 Jimi Hendrix. 2 Anthony Kiedis. 3 Alex James. 4 The Doors. 5 Boy George. 6 Courtney Love. 7 Grace Jones. 8 Keith Moon. 9 Diana Ross. 10 Keith Richards. 11 Bob Dylan 12 Nikki Sixx. 13 Paul McCartney. 14 Chrissie Hynde. 15 The Beatles.
1 Alex James; a cult 1992 movie directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Harvey Keitel. 2 Jack White; Blunderbuss. 3 Muse, who topped the Billboard chart with Drones and have had three other top ten albums in the US, and the Stone Roses. 4 Black Grape; ‘Dare’. 5 Placebo; Black Market Music. 6 The Fiery Furnaces; Franz Ferdinand – Eleanor Friedberger used to be in a relationship with Alex Kapranos, the band’s singer. 7 Paul Weller and Blur’s Graham Coxon. 8 Franz Ferdinand and Sparks. 9 Tame Impala; Lonerism. 10 Yeah Yeah Yeahs; South Korea. 11 Oasis (Alan) and Paul Weller (Steve); it’s believed that Weller recommended Alan to Noel Gallagher when Oasis found themselves without a drummer in 1995. 12 ‘Fluorescent Adolescent’; Matthew Followill of Kings of Leon. 13 Is This It; 2001. 14 The Go! Team; Thunder, Lightning, Strike. 15 ‘Love Shack’; ‘(Meet) The Flintstones’, credited to the BC-52s.
16 The Stands; All Years Leaving. 17 Ian Brown and John Squire. 18 This Is All Yours; Bill Withers’ ‘Lovely Day’. 19 Suede; Bloodsports. 20 The Seahorses; Do It Yourself. 21 Interpol; Our Love to Admire. 22 The Cribs; Johnny Marr. 23 The Boo Radleys; ‘Wake Up Boo!’. 24 Arctic Monkeys, with Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not; ‘I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor’. 25 The National; Boxer. 26 They were the trio of EPs that the Beta Band later compiled into their first album. 27 My Life Story; the Cure. 28 ‘The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala’; ‘the Devil’s pedicure’. 29 St Vincent; Kurt Cobain of Nirvana. 30 The Last Shadow Puppets; Simian Mobile Disco.
1 ‘I Would Do Anything for Love’. 2 ‘(But I Won’t Do That)’. 3 ‘Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)’. 4 ‘I Believe in a Thing Called Love’. 5 The House of Love. 6 Ryan Adams. 7 I Love You, Honeybear. 8 ‘To Bring You My Love’. 9 Caustic Love. 10 Until ‘The Twelfth of Never’. 11 Concrete Love. 12 Fleetwood Mac. 13 ‘Love Don’t Live Here Anymore’. 14 ‘Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)’. 15 ‘Love is a Losing Game’. 16 ‘Justify My Love’. 17 Manhattan Transfer. 18 Carole King. 19 Diana Ross. 20 The Supremes. 21 Pink. 22 ‘The Power of Love’. 23 ‘Love Shine a Light’. 24 Wings. 25 ‘Love Like Blood’. 26 The Decemberists. 27 Sade, on ‘Your Love Is King’. 28 ‘Tell Laura I Love Her’. 29 ‘Everlasting Love’. 30 Robert Palmer. 31 ‘A Groovy Kind of Love’. 32 ‘All You Need Is Love’. 33 ‘Love Is a Stranger’. 34 ‘Love Is a Battlefield’. 35 Bobbie Gentry. 36 ‘Stand Up for Your Love Rights’. 37 Love and Hate. 38 10cc, with ‘I’m Not in Love’. 39 ‘Labelled with Love’ by Squeeze. 40 The Housemartins, with their cover of ‘Caravan of Love’.
1 Metronomy (2006). 2 Dr Hook & the Medicine Show (1971). 3 Catfish and the Bottlemen (2014). 4 The Lovin’ Spoonful (1965). 5 Run D.M.C. (1984). 6 Editors (2005). 7 Aerosmith (1973). 8 Django Django (2012). 9 The Move (1968). 10 Basement Jaxx (1999). 11 Good Charlotte (2000). 12 New Order (1981). 13 Foster the People (2012). 14 Kraftwerk (1970). 15 Groove Armada (1998).
16 White Denim (2008). 17 China Crisis (1982). 18 Savages (2013). 19 The Cure (1979). 20 Rocket from the Crypt (1991). 21 Klaxons (2007). 22 All About Eve (1988). 23 Procol Harum (1967). 24 XTC (1978). 25 Luna (1992). 26 Avenged Sevenfold (2001). 27 The Stray Cats (1981). 28 The Shirelles (1961). 29 Suicide (1977). 30 The Charlatans (1990).
1 Sasha; Xpander. 2 ‘James Bond Theme (Moby’s Re-Version)’; Play. 3 Original Soundtrack; Mark Moore. 4 Chase & Status; Plan B. 5 Armand van Helden; Dizzee Rascal. 6 deadmau5; Ontario, Canada. 7 The Crystal Method; Bones. 8 ‘Smack My Bitch Up’; Liam Howlett. 9 Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons; 10 Klaus Badelt; Tiesto. 11 ‘Insomnia’; ‘ . . . tearing off tights with my teeth’. 12 Roni Size Reprazent; Breakbeat Era. 13 Oxygene; Electronica 1 – The Time Machine. 14 Kelly Rowland and Akon. 15 Dig Your Own Hole and We Are the Night.
16 Papua New Guinea; Manchester. 17 ‘All Mine’; Third. 18 ‘Cars’; Tubeway Army. 19 Air; The Virgin Suicides. 20 ‘NUXX’; Second Toughest in the Infants. 21 Tango (hence the anagram); Paris. 22 Lemon Jelly (the album was lemonjelly.KY); ‘The Shouty Track’. 23 LCD Soundsystem; This Is Happening. 24 Strange Cargo; Pieces in a Modern Style. 25 The Aphex Twin; ‘Windowlickers’. 26 Dub reggae (accept reggae); Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, retitled The Dub Side of the Moon. 27 Unkle; Endtroducing . . . 28 A track on the first Roxy Music album; Liverpool. 29 Brian Eno; Robert Fripp. 30 Morcheeba; Big Calm.
1 Slaves; Are You Satisfied?. 2 Sleaford Mods; Divide and Exit. 3 Public Image Ltd (PiL); the Clash. 4 Rise Against; The Sufferer and the Witness. 5 The Vaccines; What Did You Expect from the Vaccines?. 6 Eagulls; Ullages. 7 The Hives; their big single was ‘Hate to Say I Told You So’. 8 Carl Barât; Mick Jones of the Clash. 9 Weezer; white. 10 Merge Records; ‘Slack Motherfucker’. 11 The Exploited; ‘Punks Not Dead’. 12 The Offspring; Smash. 13 Hookworms; Pearl Mystic. 14 Rancid; Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day. 15 Manic Street Preachers; ‘Suicide Alley’.
16 The Cure; Seventeen Seconds. 17 The Raincoats; Odyshape. 18 Kerplunk; Tré Cool. 19 Metal Box; Jah Wobble. 20 ‘Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick’; it was his last album before his death in 2000. 21 Wire; Pink Flag. 22 ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’; ‘These Days’. 23 Don Letts; ‘E=MC2’. 24 ‘Ceremony’; Martin Hannett. 25 ‘Dear Prudence’; Through the Looking Glass. 26 Generation X; Sigue Sigue Sputnik. 27 Sandinista!; ‘Hitsville UK’. 28 Throbbing Gristle; Genesis P-Orridge. 29 Gang of Four; Entertainment! 30 Magazine; Barry Adamson.
1 The Funk Brothers; Standing in the Shadows of Motown. 2 Michael Jackson; Sydney Lumet. 3 Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard. 4 They were iconic and peerless songwriting team Holland-Dozier-Holland. 5 Los Angeles; Billie Holiday. 6 ‘Stoned Love’; Jean Terrell. 7 Boyz II Men; ‘End of The Road’. 8 Berry Gordy; Marvin Gaye. 9 Levi Stubbs; he provided the voice of Audrey II, the killer plant. 10 The Marvelettes; The Carpenters. 11 The Temptations; ‘My Girl’. 12 Kim Weston; Tammi Terrell. 13 He was a songwriter; Tamla Motown. 14 Brian Poole and the Tremeloes; Dirty Dancing. 15 Brenda Holloway; she became a cult act in the Northern Soul clubs.
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1 ‘Road Trippin’’. 2 ‘One Piece at a Time’. 3 The Moon. 4 Drive-By Truckers. 5 ‘Sloop John B’. 6 Crosby, Stills & Nash. 7 The A13, on ‘A13, Trunk Road to the Sea’. 8 The 1975. 9 Jonathan Richman, credited to the Modern Lovers – either answer is fine. 10 ‘Bicycle Race’. 11 Chris Rea. 12 The Orb. 13 ‘Paper Plane’. 14 N17. 15 George Ezra. 16 John Denver. 17 The ‘5:15’. 18 Nowhere – he had ‘No Particular Place to Go’. 19 In a ‘Yellow Submarine’. 20 Chris Spedding. 21 ‘Little Red Corvette’. 22 Randy Crawford. 23 ‘Brand New Cadillac’. 24 ‘Driving Towards the Daylight’. 25 Hawkwind. 26 ‘Last Train to Clarksville’. 27 On a skateboard – he was her ‘Sk8er Boi’. 28 Madness. 29 Jimi Hendrix. 30 The Cure . 31 Depeche Mode. 32 Driver 67. 33 ‘2-4-6-8 Motorway’. 34 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. 35 The Cars. 36 The Jam. 37 Arcade Fire, on Neon Bible. 38 ‘I’m Mandy, Fly Me’. 39 The Beautiful South, on ‘I’ll Sail This Ship Alone’. 40 ‘Route 66’.
1 Wichita Lineman and Galveston. 2 Lucinda Williams; Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone. 3 Country Joe & the Fish; Woodstock. 4 Roger Miller; the Proclaimers. 5 Nash was a guitarist and songwriter with the Hollies, while Crosby was a member of the Byrds. 6 Emmylou Harris; Rodney Crowell. 7 Chicago Transit Authority; ‘If You Leave Me Now’. 8 Up!; because she’s Canadian. 9 Grievous Angel; the Flying Burrito Brothers. 10 Johnny Cash; his daughter, Rosanne Cash. 11 My Morning Jacket; Jim James. 12 Tired Pony; Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody. 13 Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris. 14 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. 15 The Mavericks; Raúl Malo.
16 ‘Jolene’, the Dolly Parton song; emerald green. 17 Ode to Billie Joe; ‘I’ll Never Fall in Love Again’. 18 Bright Eyes; the Mystic Valley Band. 19 The Wallflowers; Bringing Down the Horse. 20 Garth Brooks; Trisha Yearwood. 21 Lambchop; No You C’mon. 22 Hank Williams; 30 years old. 23 Drive-By Truckers; Jason Isbell. 24 LeAnn Rimes; ‘Can’t Fight the Moonlight’. 25 Heartbreaker; the Cardinals. 26 Howe Gelb; Calexico. 27 ‘Islands in the Stream’; the Bee Gees. 28 Grey Tickles, Black Pressure; the Czars. 29 Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. 30 I’ll Never Get out of This World Alive; Allison Moorer.
1 ‘Masters of War’; President Bill Clinton. 2 The Basement Tapes; The Hawks. 3 Sara Lownds; Clara (the film was Renaldo and Clara, and starred Dylan, Sara and former girlfriend, Joan Baez). 4 Desire; Rubin Carter. 5 ‘Shelter from the Storm’; Big Jim. 6 No Direction Home; Martin Scorsese. 7 Slow Train Coming; Muscle Shoals. 8 Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door; Sam Peckinpah. 9 It was his first solo acoustic album since 1964; ‘Raggle Taggle Gypsy’. 10 Sly and Robbie; Mark Knopfler. 11 1962; ‘See That My Grave is Kept Clean’. 12 Together Through Life; The Grateful Dead. 13 ‘Brownsville Girl’; Sam Shepard. 14 ‘Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands’; ‘Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again’. 15 Feeding the poor; ‘Silent Night’. 16 Newport; Mike Bloomfield. 17 ‘Girl from the North Country’; Johnny Cash. 18 They had all been sung by Frank Sinatra; ‘Some Enchanted Evening’. 19 ‘Like a Rolling Stone’; ‘Once upon a time you dressed so fine..’. 20 Greil Marcus; ‘The Boxer’.
21 Shot of Love (1982). 22 Time Out of Mind (1997). 23 Street Legal (1978). 24 The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963). 25 Oh Mercy (1989). 26 Tempest (2012). 27 Under a Red Sky (1990). 28 Planet Waves (1974). 29 Modern Times (2006). 30 Highway 61 Revisited (1965).