Pop quiz: from funeral songs to Fleetwood Mac – do you know this week in music history?

August 12, 2016

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Photo of Fleetwood Mac circa 1970

On 8 August 2002, Co-Op funeral services announced their list of the most popular songs to be played at funerals. Which song was the one most commonly used to commemorate the passing of a loved one?

Pearl Jam – Alive

Bette Midler – Wind Beneath My Wings

Queen – Another One Bites the Dust

Belinda Carlisle – Heaven Is a Place on Earth

Happy birthday, The Edge out of U2, who turned 55 this week. What unusual feature of his plectrums contributes to their unique sound?

The grip is covered with dimples, and then he holds them upside down so the dimples hit the strings

He covers the tip with a specially made grease made for him by Vaseline, which enables them to slide across the strings more quickly

Titanium wire is embedded in the plastic to produce a metallic sound

He makes them himself, using only plastic from Fairy Liquid bottles produced between 1978 and 1984. He believes this source of plastic will run out in 2018.

This week in 1980, AC/DC’s Back in Black went to No 1 in the UK album charts – their first chart-topper. Which of the following is Brian Johnson not up to during the course of the song?

Hitting the sack

Beating the flack

Getting back on the track

Waxing the crack

Anthony H Wilson, famed for his work with Factory Records, died on 10 August 2007. Which of the following items was never given a Factory catalogue number?

Wilson’s favourite “World’s Greatest Boss” mug

A poster for a cancelled Durutti Column gig

An unused sleeve for a single by Crawling Chaos

A legal case involving Martin Hannett

Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard blew out 40 candles on his birthday cake this week. Which of the following is not a Death Cab for Cutie lyric?

I put on my overcoat and walked into winter

I matched my socks and ironed my T-shirts

I rearrange the furniture as you sleep

I drank from a faucet and I kept my receipts

Led Zeppelin rehearsed together for the first time on 12 September 1968, in a building on a London street now most famous for what?

Chinese restaurants

Theatres

Gay bars

Being the most polluted street in Britain

Four years ago on Friday, the London Olympics closing ceremony was held. Which of the following top stars did not play live during the show?

Taio Cruz

Richard Jones out of the Feeling

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds

Jessie J

Fleetwood Mac played their first gig this week in 1967. How many official members have they had during that time?

Nine

On 14 August, 2003, the One True Voice – the boyband created alongside Girls Aloud on the TV show Popstars: The Rivals, One True Voice – split up. Their mentor, Pete Waterman, refused to call them a boyband. What term did he use instead?