It's about time we had a pop quiz. Answers, please, to the following:

1. Why did Blur have to change the songwriting credits for their song "M.O.R.", which appeared on their self-titled 1997 album?

2. Which of the Beach Boys sings the lead vocal on "God Only Knows"?

3. To which comedian did Radiohead dedicate their album The Bends?

4. In which city was the famous venue McGonagles?

5. About which songwriter is there an unauthorized biography entitled Complicated Shadows?

6. Which song by Free did Tony Blair choose as one of his Desert Island Discs?

7. Who was the female singer in the late '80s band Automatic Dlamini?

8. Why did Mickey Hart leave The Grateful Dead in 1971?

9. Who were Vic Varney and David Gamble?

10. True or false: Simple Minds never recorded a John Peel session.

11. Which punk band's drummer was the brother of producer Steve Lillywhite?

12. Roger Bunn and Dexter Lloyd were early members of which famous group?

13. Whose guitarist called himself Cobalt Stargazer?

14. From which country did Thirteen Moons, who recorded the 1986 LP Little Dreaming Boy, come?

15. Of the three Tims -- Buckley, Hardin and Rose -- who released an album first?

16. "Now those huggy bear biceps bring those beach beauties running." Which famous '60s album has these words (among others) on the sleeve?

17. Which member of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band is NOT pictured anywhere in the artwork of Trout Mask Replica?

18. How was David Barrington better known in Swell Maps?

19. In which city did Siouxsie & The Banshees' guitarist John McKay and drummer Kenny Morris walk out on the band in 1979?

20. What is the correct pronunciation of the surname of Les Nemes, the former Haircut 100 bassist?

21. What was unusual about Terminal Crash Fear, a band that New Musical Express writer Neil Taylor described as the future of rock'n'roll in 1986?

22. What is the connection between The Fall, Japan, the Black Crowes, Split Enz and the Undertones?

23. True or false: Manfred Mann's Earth Band are sampled on Massive Attack's 1998 album Mezzanine.

24. Mott The Hoople's "Saturday Gigs" has the line: "I was ready to quit... but then we went to ------- " Where?

25. Paul Gilbertson was a founder member of which durable '80s and '90s band?

13. Zodiac Mindwarp
14. Sweden (a great band...I love the True Story single)
18. Phones Sportman
24. Croydon - i was only talking to lavendar cat about this great track yesterday

nice quiz

7. PJ Harvey

Nice one, Zoots!

7. PJ Harvey
13. Zodiac Mindwarp
14. Sweden (a great band...I love the True Story single)
18. Phones Sportman
19. Aberdeen. I think. Definitely Scotland.
24. Croydon - i was only talking to lavendar cat about this great track yesterday

Collecting the previous answers and adding the only 1 I'm even vaguely sure of :huh:

great quiz ! no idea what the answers are of course (9. is really torturing me). erm...

4. thought i knew this one but in truth haven't a clue. glasgow ?
5. Cliff Richard ?
10. false. can remember john peel using it as proof that he was as infallible as the rest of us.
18. epic soundtracks ?

i know, i should google more. theres just not enough trivial information in the real world.

11 = The Members (God how I wish I didn't know that)

christ!
4. belfast ??

7. PJ Harvgey

11. the Members

12. Roxy Music

13. Zodiac Mindwarp - did mr Mindwarp himself go out with her from Emmerdale?

19. aberdeen - arguement at a signing session at the other record shop!!!!!

4. dublin

17. I really ought to know this but off the top o my head...John French aka Drumbo?

8. because another band member gave him some bad acid

5. Hank Marvin ???

1. melody swiped from a bowie song...but which one i canna remember :blink:
8. Crap management or something... something dodgy which again i canna quite recall, sorry :blink: :blink:
3. Bill Hicks. (1st lp Pablo Honey being named after a Jerky Boys track btw)

Boys Keep Swingin'.

22. All have featured sets of brothers.

and 5 is Elvis Costello, I think.

Something to do with money.

numbe 5 IS Elvis Costello. Just finished reading it. Standard fare, but the early days sound the most fun (don't they always?.....)

anything about cliff richard in it ? :(

Hart's father defrauded the band--stole money.

Only the bit about him playing the nylon-string-guitar on "Ghost Train".

This is all coming along nicely. :)

I have received correct answers to:

1. "M.O.R." was deemed to have used elements of "Boys Keep Swinging", which is why Bowie and Eno were later added to the songwriting credits.
3. Bill Hicks, yes.
4. It was in Dublin.
5. Elvis Costello.
7. Polly Jean Harvey.
8. Lenny Hart, his father, embezzled money from the band while managing them. Mickey left in disgrace (he had recommended Lenny for the job) but was later forgiven and returned in 1977.
11. Adrian Lillywhite was the Members' drummer.
12. Bunn (guitar) and Lloyd (percussion) played in an embryonic line-up of Roxy Music.
13. Zodiac Mindwarp.
14. Sweden.
17. John (Drumbo) French. The bearded one at the bottom of the picture is The Mascara Snake.
18. Phones Sportsman.
19. Aberdeen.
22. They all had brothers in the band. Paul & Stephen Hanley (The Fall), David & Steven Batt (Japan), Chris and Rich Robinson (Black Crowes), Tim and Neil Finn (Split Enz), John and Damian O'Neill (Undertones)
24. Croydon.

Come on, ten more to get.

Apologies, I've just seen that a la bowie gave the correct answer to question 10.

The answer is FALSE. Simple Minds recorded a Peel session in December 1979 and it was broadcast in January 1980.

Nine more to get.

Carl?

James

It's not, it's John French.

Answers 2. and 25. are correct.

16 is the Who Sell Out.

Zoot, what did you think of Endless Wire?

Are you sure? I always thought it was the Mascara Snake. The story, as I understood it, was that French wanted no part in the photos for TMR, despite all the hard work he'd done on the album. :unsure:

True (Tribute on Black Milk)

Yes, it's from the John Entwistle caption. Well done.

I haven't heard it yet. I got very excited about the idea of it, then never quite got round to buying it, and promptly got interested in hearing a whole load of other things instead. Are you still listening to it all these weeks later?

Yeah, it's definitely John French.

The Mascara Snake is the one on the inside of the cover wearing a psychedelic shower cap.

: clapping smiley :

It's still in the minor rotation, yeah.

I think it might be the best new guitar/rock album I've heard all year. :unsure:

It's very much along the lines of the 70s stuff-sort of 70% Who's Next, 30% Who Are You?

I always forget how much I like the Who.

In that case I'll definitely like it. I only start getting bored with the Who in about 1984. I even like "Don't Let Go The Coat".

9. Vic Varney and David Gamble were members of an 80's band from Athens, Georgia called The Method Actors

: impressed smiley :

Nice quiz, Zoot. The only couple I knew have long since been answered, though.

It is John French in the photo
his name/pseudonym were left off the original credits

6. Alright Now by Free