Ryan’s Red Rock Trivia 5-7-21
Question: It was this day in Rock History in 1978, 90,000 tickets were sold in eight hours for this guys forthcoming London dates at Earls Court. Who was it?Answer: It was Bob Dylan!
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Question: It was this day in Rock History in 1978, 90,000 tickets were sold in eight hours for this guys forthcoming London dates at Earls Court. Who was it?Answer: It was Bob Dylan!
Question: It was this day in Rock History in 2002, this song was voted the UK’s favorite single of all time in a poll by the Guinness Hit Singles book. What was it? Answer: It was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen! ‘Imagine’ by John Lennon was voted in at No.2 and ‘Hey Jude’, The Beatles No.3, ‘Dancing…
Question: It was this day in Rock History in 1973, this guy scored his first UK No.1 album and started a five-week run at the top. Who was it and what was the album?Answer: It was David Bowie with the album ‘Aladdin sane’ a pun for ‘A Lad Insane’. A follow-up to his breakthrough The Rise…
Question: It was this day in Rock History in 1973, these guys opened their 1973 North American tour, which was billed as the ‘biggest and most profitable rock & roll tour in the history of the United States’. Who was it? Answer: It was Led Zeppelin! The guys would gross over $4 million from the…
Question: It was this day in Rock History in 1980, this guy started a six week run at No.1 on the US album chart. Who was it and what was the album?Answer: It was Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band with ‘Against The Wind’.
Question: It was this day in Rock History in 1976, this guy paid nine cab drivers to block-off both ends of a New York street so he could throw the contents of his hotel room out of the window. Who was it?Answer: It was Keith Moon of The Who!
Question: It was this day in Rock History in 1973, this record setting album went to #1 in the US and would stay there for over 14 years! What was it?Answer: It was Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. After spending 741 discontinuous weeks on the Billboard chart it would move to the Billboard…
Question: It was this day in Rock History in 2009, these guys held a free concert in Hawaii to placate angry fans who brought a legal case against them. Who was it?Answer: It was Aerosmith! Fans filed a class action case, which claimed the band had cancelled a sold-out show in Maui two years ago,…