The Beatles
“As we live a life of ease (a life of ease)
Every one of us (every one of us)
Has all we need (has all we need)
Sky of blue (sky of blue)
And sea of green (sea of green)” comes from this Beatles hit.
What is Yellow Submarine?
U2’s most popular song is “With Or Without You” off of this 1987 hit album.
What is The Joshua Tree?
It’s obvious to see why Led Zeppelin IV from 1971 is their most popular album with hits like Rock And Roll, Black Dog, When The Levee Breaks, and this hit, their most popular song, that was never released as a single and never hit number one.
What is Stairway To Heaven?
What’s everybody’s favorite Pink Floyd album? Obviously, this one, from 1973, which sold over 50 million copies, with hits from “Money” and “Breathe (In The Air)”.
What is Dark Side Of The Moon?
“Never got a flash out of cocktails
When I got some flesh off the bone
Never got a lift out of Lear jets
When I can fly way back home” comes from this Rolling Stones album.
What is Exile On Main Street?
Let It Be was written by Paul as he was experiencing problems with his band, he dreamt of his mother, her, telling him to just let it be.
Who is Mary?
U2’s Achtung Baby from 1991 became their magnum opus, with hits like “One”, “Even Better Than The Real Thing”, and this song with lyrics like “It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright, she moves in…”
What is Mysterious Ways?
Physical Graffiti from this year is their second best album with hits like Kashmir, Trampled Under Foot, Custard Pie, and Houses Of The Holy.
What is 1975?
The Final Cut from 1983 was the last album to feature this bassist and singer-songwriter.
Who is Roger Waters?
Queen has always been one of the greatest bands ever with hits like Bohemian Rhapsody and Killer Queen and Crazy Little Thing Called Home but my favorite is this song off of the 1975 album, A Night At The Opera, it is the second single from the album. It was written by John Deacon for his wife.
What is You’re My Best Friend?
Sgt. Pepper is the most important album of all time, known for its pioneering sound in rock with its closer, this song, with a near minute piano fade out, built from classical instrumentation.
What is “A Day In The Life”?
U2’s 2000’s peak was in the year 2000 with All That You Can’t Leave Behind featuring hits like Beautiful Day, Walk On, Kite, Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of and this song about a mole digging in a hole featuring a music video of the band members flying in the sky.
What is Elevation?
Who is Robert Plant?
Pink Floyd’s 60s stuff is vastly underrated with great albums like Piper At The Gates Of Dawn and A Saucerful Of Secrets with this original lead singer.
Who is Syd Barrett?
Eagles’s 1976 album Hotel California, features some of their best songs like the title track, New Kid In Town and this one, with lyrics like “He was a hard-headed man, he was brutally handsome
And she was terminally pretty
She held him up and he held her for ransom
In the heart of the cold, cold city”.
What is Life In The Fast Lane?
The Beatles got their name from combining “beat” and “beetles” and took inspiration from Buddy Holly’s band, this band.
Who are the Crickets?
What is Songs Of Innocence?
Led Zeppelin I from 1969 had iconic songs but also iconic lawsuits, where the hit song Dazed and Confused was sued by Jake Holmes, Jimmy Page originally took it for his original band, this band that later became Led Zeppelin, and performed it himself.
What are The Yardbirds?
Animals from 1977 features some of David Gilmour’s most virtuosic guitar playing with a song like this 17 minute one. Pretty “ruff”!
What is Dogs?
Chuck Berry popularized rock and roll as we know it, Route 66 and Johnny B. Goode especially with the latter being featured in this movie. Fun Fact: Michael J. Fox did not actually sing in the scene.
What is Back To The Future?
While My Guitar Gently Weeps’s guitar solo was performed by this British guitarist alongside his friend, George Harrison.
Who is Eric Clapton?
New Year’s Day off of my favorite U2 album, War, from 1983, features an opening piano line played by lead guitarist David Evans, or this nickname he goes by.
What is The Edge?
The name was inspired by a comment from The Who's drummer, him, who joked that a proposed supergroup project would "go down like a lead balloon". Jimmy Page loved the phrase, adapted it to "Led Zeppelin," and changed the spelling to "Led" to avoid mispronunciation.
Who is Keith Moon?
Echoes, the 23 minute epic, from this 1971 hit album, with other songs like Fearless and Seamus, is considered one of the best songs ever and Pink Floyd’s masterpiece.
What is Meddle?
AC/DC are absolutely amazing! Highway To Hell, their 1979 album, with this lead singer before Brian Johnson, catapulted them into the stratosphere.
Who is Bon Scott?