This last People’s Playlist is about getting around. The usual deal: 40 quickfire questions. Remember to keep the theme in mind, and don’t hesitate. You have five minutes, so off you go – as fast as an HS2 train, if they ever get built . . .
Answers: here
1 Which out-and-about track closes Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Californication?
2 How did Johnny Cash build his bespoke car?
3 Where did Frank Sinatra want you to fly him?
4 Southern Rock Opera was the breakthrough album for which Athens, Georgia rockers?
5 What was the name of the Beach Boys’ sailing vessel in 1966?
6 Who caught the ‘Marrakesh Express’ in 1969?
7 Which road out of London did Billy Bragg eulogise?
8 In 2013, which band released the Music for Cars EP just before their debut album?
9 Who took his ‘Roadrunner’ into the UK Top 20 in 1976?
10 What kind of transport did Queen use to race on Jazz?
11 Who reimagined the M25 as ‘The Road to Hell’ in 1989?
12 Who were riding Bicycles and Tricycles in 2004?
13 What was Status Quo’s unsafe-sounding mode of flight, a single from their 1972 album Piledriver?
14 The Saw Doctors held a soft spot for which road between Galway and Sligo?
15 Who was Wanted on Voyage in 2014?
16 Which singer was ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane’ in the sixties, then died piloting a much smaller plane in 1997?
17 Which train did Jimmy catch in Quadrophenia?
18 ‘Riding along in my automobile, my baby beside me at the wheel.’ Where was Chuck Berry heading?
19 In which seaworthy craft did the Beatles all live?
20 Which legendary session guitarist had a one-off UK hit in 1975 with ‘Motor Bikin”?
21 Which flashy motor did Prince drive?
22 Who threatened that ‘One Day I’ll Fly Away’ in 1980?
23 What was the Clash’s prize possession on London Calling?
24 In which direction was Joe Bonamassa driving in 2012?
25 Who rode a ‘Silver Machine’ in 1972?
26 Which train did the Monkees catch on their first single?
27 How did the boy in Avril Lavigne’s second single, another UK Top 10 hit after ‘Complicated’, get around?
28 Who were ‘Driving in my Car’ in the UK Top 10 in 1982?
29 Who was concerned with ‘Crosstown Traffic’ in 1968?
30 Who were ‘Jumping Someone Else’s Train’ in 1979?
31 In 1988, which British band got ‘Behind the Wheel’?
32 Who drove a ‘Car 67’ in 1978?
33 How did Tom Robinson count in his freeway?
34 Whose second album advised us to Take Them On, On Your Own?
35 Which band fell for the singer’s ‘Best Friend’s Girl’?
36 Who probably regretted using the underground, if ‘Down in the Tube Station (At Midnight)’ is anything to go by?
37 Which band suggested we ‘Keep the Car Running’ at the start of their 2007 album, but had changed their mind by the time ‘No Cars Go’ appeared as the record’s penultimate track?
38 Who was the air hostess who saved the singer’s life in 10cc’s UK Top 10 hit from 1976?
39 Who wanted to go to sea by themselves in 1989?
40 Where have Bobby Troup, Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones all got their kicks?