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The live album Beauty and the Beat featured pianist George
Shearring and which singer?
Whose band was the Tijuana Brass?
Who were Cliff Richard's backing group through the 60s?
Who were the famous backing singers on most of Elvis
Presley's early hits?
The Stratocaster is a model of which guitar maker?
Which piano-playing singer's first hit was The Fat Man?
Which American rock'n'roll star caused controversy when he
married a young teenager?
Who made the highly rated 1959 jazz album Kind of
Blue?
Which iconic British female singer made the highly regarded
album titled '(her first name) in Memphis' ?
Whose band was the All Stars?
Larry Adler played what instrument?
Whose childhood hit was Fingertips?
Which guitar innovator and player has a range of Gibson
Guitars named after him?
The founding brother members of the Kinks were Ray and Dave
what?
What was Smokey Robinson's most famous band called?
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen's 1962 hit was called March of
the ... what?
Who sang the hit theme song Rawhide?
John Mayall's band which helped launch Eric Clapton's
career was called what?
Rock Around the Clock was a hit for Bill Haley and his ...
what?
Which comedy actor had a novelty hit with My Boomerang
Won't Come Back?
Who sang with Serge Gainsbourg on the hit Je t'aime?
Colin Blunstone fronted which 1960s group?
What Eastenders star sang on the novelty hit Come Outside?
Jiles Perry (JP) Richardson Jr, who died in the same plane
crash as Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly was better known by what name?
Which later-to-be-famous solo singer and guitarist toured
as a member of the Beach Boys in the mid 60s?
Who had sang the hit song Little Old Wine Drinker Me?
What famous 'two-fingered' jazz guitarist died in 1953?
What song, released to promote the film The Millionairess,
featured its stars Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren?
Who managed the Beatles' prior to his early death in 1967?
Whose nickname was a derived from the term satchel-mouth?
What's the name of the motorbiker who dies in the
Shangri-Las' hit The Leader of the Pack?
Which singing-songwriting founder of the Flying Burrito
Brothers died age 26, after which his body was 'stolen' by a friend and burnt
in the Joshua Tree National Park?
Which American singer and entertainer was nicknamed
Schnozzola, because of his large nose?
Who wrote and had a hit with the instrumental Classical
Gas?
Who wrote Patsy Cline's hit Crazy?
What city hosted the Beatles as the resident band at the
Kaiserkeller and Top Ten Club?
The Isley Brothers' hit was called Behind a ... what?
1950-60s record turntables commonly offered four speeds:
33, 45, 78, and what other?
American DJ Robert Weston Smith was better known by what
stage name?
What ridiculously titled song was a hit in 1954 for Max
Bygraves in the UK and the Four Lads in the USA?
Who had the 1965 instrumental hit Spanish Flea?
What was Emile Ford and the Checkmates' 1959 hit,
supposedly the longest ever question in a UK No1 song title?
Who singer-guitarist's backing band was The Bruvvers?
Which Rolling Stones guitarist died in a swimming pool in
1969?
Who founded the Tamla Motown record label?
What folksy British singer-songwriting guitarist was famous
also for his whistling?
What was Hugo Montenegro's instrumental hit, composed by
Ennio Morricone for the film of the same name?
Tom Parker managed which huge star?
Who won (barefoot) the British Eurovision Song Contest in
1967 with Puppet on String?
The 1956 inaugural Eurovision Song Contest featured
Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy and which other
country?
Who originally fronted Herman's Hermits?
Which jazz singer, whose career actually spanned the
1930s-90s, was known as the First Lady of Song?
Which singer played Alfie's girlfriend Siddie in the 1966
film?
What name was given to the 1950-60s mainstream country
music style of artists including Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, Jim Reeves, and
Charlie Rich?
What Canadian-born teen idol of the 1950s-60s wrote the
lyrics to Sinatra's song My Way?
Which harmonica-paying frontman of Manfred Man sang on
their early hits and later became a successful radio presenter?
Which motor city was the original the base of Tamla
Motown?
What group became famous in the 1960s for their parody
impressions of other hit songs?
Peter Potter in the USA and David Jacobs in the UK
presented which pop music TV show?
What was the 1962 space-age instrumental hit by the
Tornados?
Who wrote and sang the novelty hit Hello Muddah, Hello
Fadduh, about Camp Granada?
Who was the famous rock guitarist in the group Love
Sculpture, notably featuring on their breakneck hit version of Khachaturian's
classical piece Sabre Dance?
Rolf Harris endorsed what new musical instrument, which
supposedly features on David Bowie's hit Space Oddity?
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Junior were
among several entertainers given what collective nickname?
Who originated the 'Wall of Sound' record production
technique?
The Rolling Stones first record label was what?
Simon and Garfunkel's song Mrs Robinson featured in what
1967 film?
What American DJ was nicknamed Moondog?
What was Stephane Grappelli's instrument?
Which gravel-voiced English singer was previously a
gas-fitter from Sheffield?
Who made the 1962 hit Monster Mash?
Who sang the title song of the film The Girl Can't Help It?
What was Gary Glitter's earlier stage name in the 1960s?
Lulu sang the theme song to which 1967 film about an
inner-city school, starring Sidney Poitier?
What Eddie Cochran song, covered by the Who, told of
frustrations with his boss and his congressman?
Who was the main singing star in the musical Half a
Sixpence?
Which comedian's recordings featured hilarious telephone
routines about King Kong and the introduction of Tobacco?
What long-running BBC Radio chart show began on the Light
Programme in 1955, and later becoming hugely popular when presented by Alan
Freeman?
The Crickets backed which famous singer-songwriter?
Dizzy Gillespie played what instrument?
Who made the novelty song Jake the Peg?
Which 1960s British rock'n'roll star founded the Official
Monster Raving Loony Party?
Who was nicknamed 'The Big O'?
Which member of the Hollies went on to join the hugely
successful American band commonly known by their initials CSNY?
What record label did the Beatles establish?
Who had a 1960s hit with Step Inside Love?
The record label and music company name HMV stood for
what?
Who sang the theme song to the film Born Free?
Congratulations was Cliff Richard's Eurovision Song Contest
entry in what year?
Which singer's Eurovision Song Contest entry was Knock
Knock (Who's There?)?
Whose big hit was I love You Because?
Who wrote the instrumental A Swingin' Safari and led the
orchestra which played the original hit version?
The Copacabana nightclub was in which city?
Which British comedian had the massive-selling 1965 hit
Tears?
Who sang the 1964 hit My Boy Lollipop?
Cher's partner was Sonny ... who?
Who made the hit comedy version of the Banana Boat Song,
and other similar spoofs including versions of Presley's Heartbreak Hotel and
Johnnie Ray's Cry?
Which 1960s easy-listening Irish crooner was famed for his
rocking chair and knitted jumpers?
What was Chuck Berry's first hit record?
What number gives its name to the cultish 'club'
celebrating rock stars who died at that age?
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