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80s Day: Pop Brain Teaser Answers

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Alan BraidwoodAlan Braidwood|18:00 UK time, Friday, 23 July 2010

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.)

80s Pop Brain Teaser



  • 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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