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| Why did Syd Barrett only make one albumm with Pink Floyd? |
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| Mental illness, accelerated by LSD use, seriously affected him |
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| What British group became successful on the basis of a record that was a result of their being hired to make a Stereo demonstration record, and went to the top of the charts with single NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN? |
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| What record label gave Aretha Franklin the freedom to make pop R&B records in a heavy gospel style, gaining a huge national audience by the late 1960s and early 1970s? |
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| What type of music did Aretha Franklin sing and recorded before being discovered by John Hammond at Columbia records? |
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| Who is the undisputed creator of funk? |
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| When did the funk style come together under James Brown with Cold Sweat? |
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| What San Francisco radio DJ and musician formed a superb funk band that featured both white and black, male and female band members, and was influenced by the "psychedelic" clothing and lifestyles of the late 1960s? |
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| What bass player was the first to bring out "slap bass", now an essential ingredient of funk? |
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| Sly stone had studied composition and trumpet in college, became a successful radio DJ, and produced records for bands before he started his famous "Sly & the Family Stone" |
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| Which production team popularized bubble-gum music by producing the songs and hiring out the musicians? |
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| Jerry Kasanetz and Jedd Katz |
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| Who did the Rolling Stones arrange to keep security at their free 1969 Altamont Speedway concert? |
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| How many people made it to the Woodstock Festival of 1969? |
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| What former head of Columbia records began Arista in the early 1970s? |
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| What is the name of Led Zeppelin's manager, who successfully challenged live venue contracts, moving more money towards the musicians who performed? |
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| When did the Singer Songwriter style become popular? |
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| What folk rock artists began his career with the country-rock band Buffalo Springfield, and has recently been hailed as a godfather of grunge and alternative music? |
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| What singer/songwriter of the late 1960s and early 1970s spent time in mental institutions and became known for his confesional, honest yrics in songs like Carolina In My Mind and Fire and Rain? |
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| Joni Mitchell collaborated with what famous jazz composer/bassist to set songs inspired by T.S. Elliot in the late 1970s? |
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| What artist was known as the working man's hero, renowned for his four-hour marathon concerts? |
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| A&R man John Hammond did NOT first sign the which on the following artists? |
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| What band's song lyrics reveled in black magic, fantasy, drugs and mental illness and rarely songs about relationships and redefined HEAVY with giant, primitive, scary riffs? |
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| What rock artist first devised shocking displays of grandiose violence as a part of the entertainment? |
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| Which British glam rock artist hired Broadway designers to fabricate rock's first full concert stage sets? |
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| What quartet from New York took glam to its extreme, outselling all other glam bands, with heavy m ake up, character role playing and props? |
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| What band is touted as "The Greatest Rock & Roll Band" from the 1970s through today? |
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| Progressive Rock has strong influence from what kind of music? |
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| What is the longest lasting and most successful progressive rock group? |
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| What LP has the record number of weeks on the Billboard Album Chart? |
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| Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon |
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| Who originally led the English art rock band Genesis? |
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| After Peter Gabriel left Genesis, which drummer, who had been mostly back up singin and then took over as lead singer? |
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