The Music Quiz: Which Queen song recently broke one billion streams on Spotify?
American bourbon whiskey brand Virginia Black is a business collaboration with which high-rolling pop star?
The Weeknd
Snoop Dogg
Drake
Kid Rock
On Sharon Corr's 2010 debut solo album, Dream of You, which rock guitarist is featured on her version of Seán Ó Riada's Mná na hÉireann?
Jimmy Page
Mark Knopfler
Brian May
Jeff Beck
Which Queen song recently joined Spotify's 'Billions Club', streamed over one billion times?
Radio Ga Ga
We Are the Champions
Somebody to Love
Killer Queen
Find El Dorado, the forthcoming covers album by Paul Weller, sees the Modfather cover Christy Moore's...?
Ride On
The Wicklow Boy
The Voyage
One Last Cold Kiss
The title of David Bowie's Thursday's Child (1999) was inspired by the same title of which singer's first autobiography?
Eartha Kitt
Shirley Bassey
Nina Simone
Peggy Lee
In 1980, at the height of their commercial success, The Specials released a live EP called Too Much Too Young, the B-side of which featured the reggae-ska medley Skinhead Symphony. The medley's three songs are Long Shot Kick de Bucket, Skinhead Moonstomp and...?
Prince Buster
The Liquidator
007 (Shanty Town)
You Can Get It If You Really Want
Who is the second-wave 'Oi' punk band heard in the opening scene of Made in Britain, the 1983 BBC drama famously starring young Tim Roth as a 16-year-old racist skinhead?
Angelic Upstarts
The Exploited
UK Subs
Cockney Rejects
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye is better known as...?
Adamski
A$AP Rocky
The Weeknd
Bad Bunny
In Bon Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer (1986), where did Tommy (one of the song's two characters) once work?
Bar
Docks
Cafe
Casino
Three slices of which fruit feature on the cover of The Stone Roses' 1989 self-titled debut album?
Lemon
Lime
Orange
Banana
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