80s Day: Pop Brain Teaser Answers
A few days back I posted questions written by Richard in the music team at BBC Radio Scotland for 80s Day. I promised to publish the results at 6pm today so here we go. (Oh dear - it's looking like I've got my Aneka's mixed up with my Kelly Marie's - sigh.)

- Status Quo kicked off Live Aid but who was the second act on the bill? - Style Council
- What was the first number 1 single of the 80s? - Pink Floyd 'Another Brick In The Wall'
- Name track one on the first ever Now That's What I Call Music album? - Phil Collins 'You Can't Hurry Love'
- What was the first number one single to be produced by Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes? - Kajaoogoo 'Too Shy'
- What's the best selling 80's soundtrack in the UK? Dirty Dancing ost
- Which 80's pop star's music videos featured cameo appearances from Neil Kinnock, Paul McCartney and Adrian Edmondson? Tracey Ullman
- Who duetted with Tina Turner at Live Aid? Mick Jagger
- Who is Helen Folasade Adu better known as? Sade
- What links Fine Young Cannibals, Tears For Fears and the cast of Grange Hill? They all have singers named Roland
- Who was the first Scottish act to have a number 1 single in the 1980's? Kelly Marie
- Which album was the first in history to be manufactured onto compact disc? ABBA's 'The Visitors'
- Name the first Stock Aitken & Waterman production to reach number 1? Dead Or Alive 'You Spin Me Round (like a record)'
- Tony Visconti was scheduled to produce David Bowie's album Let's Dance. Whose second release did he end up producing instead? Modern Romance
- Name the UK's best selling album of the 1980's. Dire Straits 'Brothers In Arms'
- Who originally dueted with Michael Jackson on the track State Of Shock, but was later replacd by Mick Jagger? Freddie Mercury
- What was the only million-selling single of the 1980s not to make number 1? Wham! 'Last Christmas/ Everything She Wants'
- Which famous sporting legend sang backing vocals on Tina Turner's We Don't Need Another Hero as part of the Kings House School choir? Lawrence Dallaglio
- The intro of which 80's number 1 was inspired by the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice? Blondie 'Atomic'
- Name the 80's pop star who had Julia Fordham and an Eastender's actress as part of her backing band. Mari Wilson
- What was the last number 1 of the 80s? Band Aid II 'Do They Know It's Christmas'


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At 18:47 23rd Jul 2010, norriemaclean wrote:Good quiz....I think all the answers were solved?
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