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1 Which duo topped the UK charts in 1973 with “Welcome Home” following their success in the talent show Opportunity Knocks?
A Peters and Lee – Lennie Peters was blinded in one eye during a car accident when he was five years old. A thrown brick blinded his other eye when he was sixteen.
2 Which electronic music band from Basildon, Essex, took its name from a French Fashion Magazine?
A Depeche Mode – translates roughly to “fashion dispatch” or “hurried fashion”
3 Which group recorded “A View to a Kill”, the theme tune to the James Bond film of that name?
A Duran Duran. The band released the song in May 1985, and it quickly became a significant hit for them. It remains the only James Bond theme song to reach number one on the US Billboard Hot 100.
4 What was the best-selling UK single of 1982, a hit for “Dexys Midnight Runners”?
A Come on Eileen. It spent four weeks at number one and sold an estimated 1.21 million copies in the UK.
5 Which pop group released number one albums “Blue Is the Colour” and “Quench”, as well as their best of album “Carry On Up the Charts”?
A The Beautiful South
6 By what name is Chopin’s waltz in D Flat for piano Opus 64 No.1 more popularly known?
A Minute Waltz – sometimes known as “Valse du petit chien” (French for “Waltz of the puppy”)
7 Which 1985 album by rock band Dire Straits features the song “Money for Nothing”?
A Brothers in Arms
8 What kind of soup was a number one selling album on both sides of the Atlantic by the Rolling Stones in 1973?
A Goats Head Soup
9 Which American singer-songwriter’s 2003 debut studio album was “Dangerously in Love”?
A Beyoncé
10 Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke were the members of which eighties synth-pop duo?
A Yazoo (known as Yaz in the United States)