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1960s Music Trivia
Discover mind-blowing 1960s music facts that will stun every classic rock fan! From The Beatles' British Invasion to Woodstock and the psychedelic revolution - prepare to be amazed by the decade that transformed music forever.
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Which rock legend played a left-handed guitar and performed a famous set at Woodstock?
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What Rolling Stones song, released in 1966, was banned by several radio stations for suggestive lyrics?
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Which Janis Joplin song became her signature tune and a symbol of 1960s counterculture?
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Which specific concert venue in San Francisco was run by promoter Bill Graham starting in 1966?
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How many tracks are on The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' album?
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How many people attended the Woodstock festival, far exceeding the expected 50,000?
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Which Motown group sang 'My Girl' in 1964?
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What Jimi Hendrix song, performed at Woodstock in 1969, became an iconic protest statement?
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Which singer was known as the 'Queen of Soul' for hits like 'Respect'?
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What year did The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time?
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Which Pete Seeger song, adapted from the Book of Ecclesiastes, became a No. 1 hit for The Byrds in 1965?
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What was the maximum capacity of the Cavern Club in Liverpool where The Beatles performed 292 times?
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What instrument did Ringo Starr play in The Beatles?
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What Beatles album, released in 1967, is often called the greatest rock album ever made?
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Which legendary guitarist formed the band Cream with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker in 1966?
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Which country hosted the famous 1960s music scene known as 'Swinging London'?
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What was the name of the famous 1960s San Francisco poster art style associated with psychedelic rock concerts?
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Which soul singer recorded 'A Change Is Gonna Come' in 1964 as a civil rights anthem?
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What was the name of The Beatles' first feature film, released in 1964?
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What Aretha Franklin hit, originally written and recorded by Otis Redding, became a feminist anthem in 1967?
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What year did The Beatles officially break up?
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What was the title of the influential 1966 album by The Mothers of Invention that satirized American culture?
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Which Rolling Stones song, released in 1965, became one of the most famous rock riffs of all time?
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What Dusty Springfield hit, released in 1966, is considered one of the greatest pop songs of the decade?
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What 1967 Beatles song features the lyric 'Picture yourself in a boat on a river'?
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Which session drummer played on the original recording of 'Be My Baby' by The Ronettes in 1963?
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What Cream song, released in 1968, featured one of rock's most famous guitar riffs?
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What was the name of the famous Detroit studio where many Motown hits were recorded?
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Which guitarist was a member of both The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin?
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Which 1960s festival, held in Monterey, California in 1967, was one of the first major rock festivals?
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Which Ray Charles hit, released in 1960, blended soul and country music?
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What was the name of the fuzz pedal that Keith Richards used to create the guitar tone on 'Satisfaction'?
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What was the name of Brian Epstein's Liverpool record shop where he first heard of The Beatles?
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How many weeks did The Beatles' 'Hey Jude' stay at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968?
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Which Supremes hit was the group's fifth consecutive No. 1 single in 1965?
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Which specific Moog synthesizer model did The Beatles use on 'Abbey Road' in 1969?
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What Simon & Garfunkel song became their biggest hit after being featured in the 1967 film 'The Graduate'?
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What was the last album The Beatles recorded together, released in 1969?
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What was the name of the concert promoter who organized the Woodstock festival in 1969?
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Which protest singer wrote 'If I Had a Hammer' and marched with Martin Luther King Jr.?
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What was the name of the Motown quality-control process where staff voted on whether a song was good enough to release?
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Which Beatles song, released in 1966, was inspired by a newspaper story about 4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire?
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How many consecutive No. 1 hits did The Supremes achieve between 1964 and 1967?
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Which Bob Dylan album, released in 1965, controversially featured electric instruments for the first time?
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What year was the Monterey Pop Festival held, often considered the start of the Summer of Love?
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What instrument did Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones introduce on the song 'Paint It Black' in 1966?
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Which British band featured Pete Townshend on guitar and was known for smashing instruments on stage?
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Which James Brown hit, released in 1965, is considered a foundational funk song?
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What was the name of the Motown songwriting team behind hits like 'My Girl' and 'Ain't Too Proud to Beg'?
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What year did Bob Dylan release 'Like a Rolling Stone,' which revolutionized popular music?
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What Beatles song holds the record as one of the longest-running No. 1 hits of the 1960s at seven weeks?
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What was the name of the recording studio in London where The Rolling Stones recorded most of their 1960s albums?
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Which member of The Who wrote the rock opera 'Tommy,' released in 1969?
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Which folk duo released the album 'Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme' in 1966?
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What was the name of the band that Sly Stone led, blending rock, soul, and funk in the late 1960s?
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What was the name of the massive 1969 music festival held on a dairy farm in upstate New York?
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Which 1960s band was famous for songs like 'Light My Fire' and featured Jim Morrison as lead singer?
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What was the exact running time of Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone,' which was considered too long for radio?
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Which Beatles song was the first to be released as a single with a different song on each side, both considered A-sides, in 1967?
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Which record label signed The Rolling Stones in 1963 after they were rejected by several major labels?
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Which Beatles member wrote 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' for The White Album?
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What was the name of the instrument John Lennon played on 'Tomorrow Never Knows,' created by feeding guitar through a Leslie speaker?
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What was the name of the recording technique Brian Wilson used on Pet Sounds that involved layering multiple instruments?
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Which Wilson Pickett hit, recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in 1966, became a soul classic?
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What was the original name of The Beatles before they settled on their famous spelling?
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What was the exact date of The Beatles' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show?
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What Motown songwriting trio wrote many of The Supremes' biggest hits including 'Where Did Our Love Go'?
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What was the name of the studio musicians who played on countless hits in 1960s Los Angeles?
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Which Doors song, released in 1967, was edited for radio because of its length of over seven minutes?
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Which specific Bob Dylan song caused controversy at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival when he played it with an electric band?
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What Bob Dylan song became an anthem of the 1960s civil rights and anti-war movements?
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What was the original working title of The Beatles' 'Yesterday' before Paul McCartney wrote the final lyrics?
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What was the name of the Grateful Dead's famous communal house in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district?
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Which engineer was only 19 years old when he began recording The Beatles' 'Revolver' album at Abbey Road?
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Which 1969 event at a California racetrack became known as the dark counterpart to Woodstock after a fatal stabbing?
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What was the name of The Beatles' failed electronics and retail business, launched in 1967?
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Which Otis Redding song, released posthumously in 1968, became his biggest hit?
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What type of music did The Beach Boys become most famous for celebrating in their early 1960s songs?
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What was the name of the London club where The Rolling Stones had a residency in 1963, helping launch their career?
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Which small Alabama town's FAME Studios produced hits for Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, and Percy Sledge?
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Which guitarist replaced Eric Clapton in The Yardbirds in 1965?
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What Sonny & Cher hit became one of the biggest-selling singles of 1965?
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Which 1960s folk singer wrote 'This Land Is Your Land' and inspired Bob Dylan?
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What Motown label, founded by Berry Gordy, became the most successful Black-owned record company of the 1960s?
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What four-letter word describes the style of popular music that dominated AM radio in the 1960s?
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What Beatles song begins with the lyric 'Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away'?
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Which Beatles song features George Harrison playing a clavioline, an early electronic keyboard?
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Which member of The Rolling Stones founded the band and was later fired in 1969?
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What genre of music blended rock with Indian instruments and became popular in the late 1960s?
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Which Stax Records house band backed artists like Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett?
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Which Grateful Dead album, released in 1969, was their first to feature extended live-style jamming in the studio?
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What Stevie Wonder hit, released in 1963, made him the youngest artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 at age 13?
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What Beach Boys album, released in 1966, rivaled Sgt. Pepper's as the greatest album ever made?
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Which Beatles song was the first to use backward tape loops, released on 'Revolver' in 1966?
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Which female Motown group had hits like 'Baby Love' and 'Stop! In the Name of Love'?
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What was the address of the Brill Building in New York City, a hub for 1960s songwriting?
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What was the name of the Swedish instrument company that manufactured the Mellotron used by The Beatles?
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Which Beatles producer was known as 'the Fifth Beatle' for his orchestral arrangements?
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What Nina Simone protest song, written in response to the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, became a civil rights standard?
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Which Velvet Underground album, produced by Andy Warhol and released in 1967, featured a banana on its cover?
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Which songwriter-producer created the 'Wall of Sound' recording technique used on hits like 'Be My Baby'?
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What was the first Beatles single to reach No. 1 in the United States in 1964?
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Which engineer at Abbey Road Studios pioneered the use of ADT (Automatic Double Tracking) for The Beatles?
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What was the real first name of Mama Cass Elliot of The Mamas & the Papas?
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Which Zombies song, released in 1968, is now considered one of the greatest psychedelic pop albums' centerpieces?
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Which Byrds song, a cover of a Bob Dylan tune, became a folk-rock anthem in 1965?
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Which session musician played the iconic guitar riff on The Kinks' 'You Really Got Me' in 1964?
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What was the name of the famed Memphis guitarist who played on Otis Redding's recordings and was known as 'The Colonel'?
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Which Liverpool band led the 'British Invasion' of American music in 1964?
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Which specific date marked the 'Day the Music Died' plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper?
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What was the name of the club in Hamburg, Germany where The Beatles played over 800 hours between 1960 and 1962?
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How many hours of footage were shot during the making of The Beatles' 'Let It Be' documentary?
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What was the name of the Memphis soul singer who recorded 'Hold On, I'm Comin'' with Sam & Dave in 1966?
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What was the stage name of the Motown singer born Stevland Hardaway Judkins?
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Which British rock band released the album 'Led Zeppelin' in 1969?
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What was the name of the talent scout who discovered Otis Redding at a recording session for Johnny Jenkins in 1962?
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Which American singer-songwriter released the album 'Highway 61 Revisited' in 1965?
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Which Beatles song was the first to use a sitar, introducing Indian music to Western pop in 1965?
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What instrument did Paul McCartney primarily play in The Beatles?
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Which San Francisco venue became the epicenter of the psychedelic rock movement in the late 1960s?
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Which Creedence Clearwater Revival song, released in 1969, became an anti-Vietnam War anthem?
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What Johnny Cash album, recorded at a California prison in 1968, became one of his most famous live recordings?
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Which girl group sang 'Be My Baby' in 1963 with producer Phil Spector's famous Wall of Sound?
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Which town in upstate New York actually hosted the Woodstock festival, since it wasn't held in Woodstock itself?
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Which Phil Ochs protest song, released in 1966, satirized American liberalism?
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What famous Ed Sullivan Show appearance in February 1964 introduced The Beatles to 73 million American viewers?
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Which band recorded 'House of the Rising Sun,' a No. 1 hit in 1964?
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What Beach Boys song, released in 1966, is considered one of the greatest albums tracks ever recorded?
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What was the original name of Fleetwood Mac when Peter Green formed the band in 1967?
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What dance craze, popularized by Chubby Checker, became a massive hit in the early 1960s?
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Which city in Tennessee was the home of Stax Records and a hub for 1960s soul music?
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Which Rolling Stones album, released in 1969, is often considered their masterpiece?
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What Ike & Tina Turner hit, released in 1966, showcased Tina's powerful vocals over Phil Spector's production?
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How many instruments did Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones play across the band's 1960s recordings?
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What was the exact admission price for the original three-day Woodstock festival ticket in 1969?
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How many albums did The Beatles release in the UK between 1963 and 1970?
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How many copies did The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' sell in its first three months in the UK?
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Which psychedelic rock band, led by Grace Slick, performed 'White Rabbit' at Woodstock?
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What was the original title of The Rolling Stones' first UK No. 1 single, released in 1964?
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What was the original name of Sly and the Family Stone before Sly Stone reformed the group in 1966?
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What Elvis Presley song, released in 1961, became one of his most beloved ballads?
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What was the name of Brian Epstein's management company that represented The Beatles?
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What was the name of the road manager for The Who who accidentally drove a Lincoln Continental into a Holiday Inn swimming pool in 1967?
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What Marvin Gaye song, released in 1968, became one of Motown's most celebrated love songs?
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Which bass player for The Who was known as 'The Ox' and played on the 'Tommy' album?
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Which Kinks song, released in 1964, featured one of the first uses of distorted guitar in a hit single?
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Which Four Tops hit, released in 1966, was written by the Holland-Dozier-Holland team?
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Which member of Big Brother and the Holding Company played guitar alongside Janis Joplin?
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Which Motown artist's real name was Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.?
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What was the first name of the lead singer of The Jimi Hendrix Experience?
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