The Music Quiz: Where are the brackets placed in this U2 song title?
Gerard Crosbie is better known by which stage name?
Gerard Way
James Arthur
Gerry Cinnamon
Gerry Rafferty
Written in the key of A♭ major, which Queen song features 'dramatic intervalic contrasts, ranging from F2 in the harmonies to A♭2 to a C5 in full voice up to an A♭5 in falsetto in the lead vocals'?
Somebody to Love
Bohemian Rhapsody
Killer Queen
Brighton Rock
On Christy Moore's 2009 album, Listen, which Pink Floyd song does he cover?
See Emily Play
Comfortably Numb
Money
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Which UK hip-hop act has composed the soundtrack to the forthcoming horror film, 28 Years Later?
Plan B
Loyle Carner
Little Simz
Young Fathers
Brad Mehldau's forthcoming album, Ride Into the Sun, is a tribute to which US singer-songwriter?
Warren Zevon
Elliott Smith
Janis Joplin
Frank Zappa
Where are the brackets placed in this U2 song?
Pride (In the Name of Love)
(Pride) In the Name of Love
Pride In the Name (of Love)
Pride (In the Name) of Love
Made in Sheffield, Tony Christie's 2008 album of songs by Sheffield-based songwriters, features the MOR crooner covering which Human League track?
Human
Louise
Open Your Heart
One Man In My Heart
Which is a Warpaint song named after a famous blues/jazz singer?
Sarah Vaughan
Ella Fitzgerald
Billie Holiday
Peggy Lee
Anar, the title of the 2011 debut solo album by Czech-Icelandic songwriter/musician Markéta Irglová, is the Persian word for which fruit?
Pomegranate
Pineapple
Peach
Pear
How many tears did ? and the Mysterians sing about in 1966?
93
94
95
96
From which song on Lou Reed's 1973 album, Berlin, did Mike Scott choose the name of his band The Waterboys?
Men of Good Fortune
How Do You Think It Feels
The Kids
Caroline Says II
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