Seventies Music Quiz 1 - Answers

Published: Saturday 9th January 2010
  1. Which Canadian singer/songwriter had a "Heart of Gold" in 1972? Neil Young
  2. Who had a UK number 1 with "Three Times a Lady"? The Commodores.
  3. Who had hit albums in the 1970s with the following titles (i)"A Trick of the Tail", (ii)"Fragile",(iii)"Every Picture Tells a Story", (iv)"Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player" and (v)"Venus and Mars" The albums were released by (i)Genesis, (ii) Yes, (iii) Rod Stewart, (iv) Elton John and (v)Paul MacCartney and Wings.
  4. Eve Graham and Lyn Paul were singers with which 70s' group? They were both in The New Seekers.
  5. Who wanted to sleep in a "s-s-s-single bed" in 1976? Fox.
  6. Which Welshman charted with "Daughter of Darkness" in 1970? Tom Jones
  7. "Peaches" and "Duchess" were hit singles for which punk band? The Stranglers.
  8. Which former Moody Blue was a member of Wings? Denny Laine was in both The Moody Blues and Wings.
  9. What were the full names of these Seventies bands,(i)"KC and ....", (ii)"Kool and.....", (iii)"The Boomtown.....", (iv)"Siouxsie and....." and (v) "Fleetwood....." The groups were (i)KC and the Sunshine Band, (ii)Kool and the Gang, (iii)The Boomtown Rats, (iv)Siouxsie and the Banshees and (v)Fleetwood Mac.
  10. Who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974? It was won by ABBA with "Waterloo".
  11. Whose first top ten single was "The Eton Rifles" in 1979? The Jam.
  12. Which 70s hits contained the following lyrics,(i)"February made me shiver", (ii)"You don't have to be coy,Roy", (iii)"You sheltered me from harm", (iv)"Strumming my pain with his fingers" and (v)"You don't wanna call nobody else" The lines come from the following (i)American Pie Don McClean,(ii)Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover Paul Simon, (iii)Everything I Own Bread, (iv)Killing Me Softly Roberta Flack and (v)Ricki,Don't Lose That Number Steely Dan.
  13. Who took their "Tiger Feet" to number one in 1974? Mud
  14. Which prog rocker had a concept album entitled "The Six Wives of Henry VIII"? Rick Wakeman.
  15. Of which seventies bands were the following members of,(i)Don Henley, (ii)Jeff Lynne, (iii)Robert Smith, (iv)Phil Lynott and (v)Deborah Harry They were members of (i)The Eagles, (ii)Electric Light Orchestra,(iii)The Cure, (iv)Thin Lizzy and (v)Blondie.
  16. Which Seventies number one had only two letters in its title? The record was "If" by Telly Savalas.
  17. Which song from a musical became the 400th UK number 1 single in 1977? The single was "Don't Cry For Me,Argentina" by Julie Covington from the musical "Evita".
  18. In which month of 1975 did Pilot's "January" reach the top spot in the UK charts? It actually hit the top spot on February 1st.
  19. Which movies featured the following 70s hits, (i)"Staying alive" - The Bee Gees, (ii)"Bright Eyes" - Art Garfunkel, (iii)"The Entertainer" - Marvin Hamlisch, (iv)"Sandy" - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John, and (v)"Nobody Does It Better" - Carly Simon The films were (i)Saturday Night Fever, (ii)Watership Down, (iii)The Sting, (iv)Grease and (v) The James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me.
  20. Who reached number one in 1975 insisting that they were "Not in Love"? It was 10CC.

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