We can’t have a music quiz book without acknowledging the L word. Love has infused popular music since the very beginning and is now probably both the most overused and the most inappropriately used word in the musical lexicon. Here are 40 straight questions. Do it with love.
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1 What would Meat Loaf do for love?
2 And what wouldn’t he do?
3 Where did ‘Love Grow’ for Edison Lighthouse at the beginning of the seventies?
4 What did the Darkness believe in?
5 Who gave us the eighties indie anthem ‘Shine On’?
6 Love Is Hell, according to which tortured American singer in 2004?
7 Who does Father John Misty love?
8 In 1994, what was the purpose of PJ Harvey’s third album?
9 What was Paolo Nutini’s kind of love in 2014?
10 In 1973, how long was Donny Osmond prepared to love his girl?
11 What kind of solid love did the Courteeners enjoy in 2014?
12 Who enjoyed ‘Big Love’ in 1987 (and many other times, according to repeated rumours about their inter-band relationships)?
13 What fact about love did Rose Royce reveal in 1978?
14 Which unanswered question gave Buzzcocks their biggest hit single?
15 What was Amy Winehouse’s bleak take on love on Back to Black?
16 What did Madonna want you to do with her love in 1991?
17 Which group took ‘Chanson d’Amour’ to number one in 1977?
18 Who co-wrote ‘Will You Love Me Tomorrow?’, then recorded it herself in 1971?
19 Who had a ‘Love Hangover’ in 1976?
20 Who ordered us to ‘Stop! In the Name of Love’?
21 Who told us The Truth about Love on her 2012 album?
22 Jennifer Rush, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Sam Bailey all warned us about what?
23 Which Katrina & the Waves song gave the UK a rare Eurovision win in 1997?
24 There are all sorts of love songs – but who complained about silly ones in 1976?
25 What was Killing Joke’s ‘Love Like’?
26 Whose 2009 concept album warned us about The Hazards of Love?
27 Who thought your love was royalty in 1984?
28 What were the dying words of the victim of a motorcycle accident in Ricky Valance’s 1960 smash hit?
29 Which kind of love made the British Top 40 in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s, including a number one for Love Affair in 1968?
30 Who was ‘Addicted to Love’ in 1986?
31 Which ‘Kind of Love’ did Phil Collins take to number one in the UK in 1988?
32 Which song did the Beatles premiere in 1967 on Our World, the world’s first global satellite television production?
33 What was love to the Eurythmics in 1982?
34 And what was it for Pat Benatar in 1983?
35 Who swore that she’d never fall in love again on her British number one single in 1969?
36 What did Yazz cry that we needed to ‘Stand Up for’ in 1988?
37 What came with the ‘Love’ on the title of Michael Kiwanuka’s 2016 album?
38 Who topped the chart in 1975 by insisting they weren’t in love?
39 ‘Home is a love that I miss very much, but the past has been bottled and . . .’ What?
40 Who presumably needed to tow their love around in 1986?