Mike Tyler

Loverboy formed in Toronto in 1980 and immediately signed with CBS records.  The band was one of the most successful mainstream rock groups of the early ’80s.  Their debut album featured the slick singles like “Turn Me Loose” and “The Kid Is Hot Tonite,” and the album went platinum in both Canada and America.  The group’s follow-up “Get Lucky” was released in 1981 and driven by the anthemic “Working for the Weekend,” the record was a major success in the U.S. and Canada, yet it failed to gain an audience anywhere in Europe. Nevertheless, the band was a staple on AOR stations across North America, as well as a popular concert attraction.  What record producer did Loverboy enjoy most of their success with?

A)  Bob Rock

B)  Mutt Lange

C)  Bruce Fairburn

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Working for the weekend indeed!  Have a good one.

Mike

Fall Out Boy formed in 2001 in the suburbs of Chicago.  The quartet used the unbridled intensity of hardcore as a foundation for melody-drenched pop-punk with a heavy debt to the emo scene.  The band garnered positive reviews for their gigs at South by Southwest and numerous tour appearances. Their breakout album, the ambitious From Under The Cork Tree, was released in the spring of 2005 and quickly reached the Top Ten of Billboard’s album chart and spawned two Top Ten hits with “Sugar We’re Going Down” and the furiously upbeat “Dance, Dance.” The album went double platinum, and earned the guys a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist.  What is the name of the Chicago suburb where Fall Out Boy formed?

A)  Wilmette

B)  Lincoln

C)  Winterhaven

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 Mike

Blondie formed in New York City in 1974.  The group was the most commercially successful band to emerge from the much-vaunted punk/new wave movement of the late ’70s.  Blondie broke commercially in the U.K. in March 1978, when their cover of Randy and The Raiinbows’1963 hit “Denise,” renamed “Denis,” became a Top Ten hit, as did Plastic Letters, followed by a second U.K. Top Ten, “(I’m Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear.” Blondie turned to U.K. producer/songwriter Mike Chapman for their third album, Parallel Lines, which was released in September 1978 and eventually broke them worldwide. “Picture This” became a U.K. Top 40 hit, and “Hanging on the Telephone” made the U.K. Top Ten, but it was the album’s third single, the disco-influenced “Heart of Glass,” that took Blondie to number one in both the U.K. and the U.S.  Where was Blondie singer Deborah Harry born?

A)  New York

B)  Miami

C)  Los Angeles

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Mike

One of my favourite groups of all time, AC/DC formed in Sydney, Australia in 1973.  The group was formed by Malcolm Young after his previous band folded and with younger brother Angus as lead guitarist, the band started playing some gigs around Sydney.  Angus was only 15 years old at the time and his sister suggested that he should wear his school uniform on-stage - the look became the band’s visual trademark.  AC/DC’s rock was minimalist — no matter how huge and bludgeoning the guitar chords were, there was a clear sense of space and restraint. Combined with Bon Scott’s larynx-shredding vocals, the band spawned countless imitators over the next two decades.  What was Bon’s job for the band before he landed the singer’s gig?

A)  Roadie

B) Technician

C)  Chauffeur

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Mike

Motorhead formed in London, England in 1975.  Motörhead’s overwhelmingly loud and fast style of heavy metal was one of the most groundbreaking styles the genre had to offer in the late ’70s.  Motorhead wasn’t punk rock, but they were the first metal band to harness that energy and, in the process, they created speed metal and thrash metal. Unlike many of their contemporaries, Motörhead continued performing into the next century. Although the band changed its lineup many, many times — Lemmy Kilmister was its only consistent member — they never changed their raging sound.  What is Lemmy’s real first name?

A)  Brian

B)  Ian

C)  Eddie

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Mike