The Official Radio 6 Music Quiz Book by Nick Holt

Author:Nick Holt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House UK

BONUS TRACKS

16 Which 1988 song from her eponymous debut LP gave Tracy Chapman her only UK Top 10 single? Her performance at which London concert gave the song a huge leg up the charts?

17 Which Oxford indie folk band take their name from a town in the Hebrides? What’s the title of their 2010 debut album, a UK Top 20 hit?

18 Which TV theme tune gave Irish folk band Clannad their British commercial breakthrough when it entered the Top 10 in 1983? Legend gave the band their first British Top 20 album the following year – for which TV series did it serve as the soundtrack?

19 I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight was the first album co-credited to which husband-and-wife folk duo? What’s the title of the final album they recorded together, released in 1982 at a time when their relationship was falling apart?

20 ‘Tell her to make me a cambric shirt’ is a line from which famous traditional song? Who released it as the first single from their 1966 album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme?

21 Where were Christy Moore’s 1994 and 2006 live albums recorded? Which song, the title track of a 1984 album and something of a signature tune, did he play live on stage with Coldplay in 2011?

22 The First of a Million Kisses is the only album recorded by which British folk pop group? The band launched the career of which enduring Scottish singer-songwriter?

23 In 2015, at the age of 66, Richard Thompson entered the UK top 10 for the first time with which album? Which alt.country star, the singer and guitarist with Wilco, produced the record?

24 A memorial to which singer-songwriter, who died in relative obscurity at the age of 26 in 1974, can be found at Tamworth-in-Arden in Warwickshire? What’s the name of his second album, released in 1971, which has seen him posthumously recognised as a major figure in acoustic music?

25 Which Portland, Oregon band are named after an unsuccessful military uprising in Russia in the 1820s? What’s the name of their 2011 album, their first American number one?

26 Maddy Prior has been the singer of which folk band for the majority of their 47-year lifespan? What became their only UK Top 10 hit in 1975?

27 The Rails consist of James Walbourne and his wife Kami, the daughter of which folk-rock legends? Which other modern folk star played fiddle on their 2014 debut album Fair Warning?

28 Who wrote ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ for his wife-to-be, Peggy Seeger? Which pop singer was his daughter?

29 Championed by BBC Radio 2, which singer’s albums Regardless and Ghosts and Graffiti have both made the UK Top 40? Her 2011 album, Don’t Stop Singing, featured the singer setting words by which late folk rock singer to new melodies?

30 Liam Ó Maonlaí and Fiachna Ó Braonáin are the two former buskers who formed which successful folk-rock band? Taken from their 1988 debut album People, which Top 20 single helped popularise the band in

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