Classic Pop - UK (2019-11)

1

Name The Brand New

Heavies album that

features collaborations with

a host of hip-hop artists

2

OMD’s Andy McCluskey

wrote songs for which

chart-topping girlband?

3

Who duets with Peter

Gabriel on So bonus track

This Is The Picture?

4

What does D.M.S.R. on

Prin c e’s 1999 album

stand for?

5

George Michael

collaborated with Nick

Heyward as part of which

dance music project?

6

Belinda Carlisle appears

on which track by rockers

Then Jerico?

7

Mick Hucknall stood in as

lead vocalist for which

reunited 70s rockers?

8

Name the Bruce Hornsby

homage song that features

on Bon Iver’s eponymous

second album

9

Midge Ure turned down

an offer to be part of

which band?

10

Which iconic 80s

bassist is known as being

the chief exponent of the

Chapman Stick?

11

Name the band that

evolved from Johnny

& The Self-Abusers

12

Which musician links

The Specials and

The Libertines?

13

Who was the synth icon

behind The Normal’s

Warm Leatherette?

14

Eric B & Rakim’s

I Know You Got Soul

inspired the title of which

house music No.1?

15

Who recently released

the single Breaking

Back Together?

HOW DID YOU DO?

13-15 Walking On Sunshine

10-12 Beautiful Day

6-9 Cruel Summer

0-5 Purple Rain

1 Heavy Rhyme Experience Vol.1;

2 Atomic Kitten;

3 Laurie Anderson;

4 Dance. Music. Sex. Romance;

5

Boogie Box High;

6

What Does It Take?;

7

Faces;

8 Beth/Rest;

9 Sex Pistols;

10

Nick Beggs;

11

Simple Minds;

12

Gary Powell;

13

Daniel Miller;

14

Pump Up The Volume;

15

Louise

18

POLITICS

AND

PERSONAL

TRAUMA

BEHIND

BEN

WATT’S

RETURN

Tragedy and politics inspired the new

Ben Watt album, Storm Damage,

which arrives on 31 January. “My

closest half-brother died unexpectedly

in 2016, only four years after my

half-sister,” explains Watt. “I got stuck

for a year, angry inside and angry at

the political world casually detonating

around me. I felt half powerless, half

driven. When the songs fi nally came,

some were dark, yes, but there is

always room for light. Always. I just

tried to put that across.”

The music is a departure for the

former Everything But The Girl star –

a hybrid of acoustic and electronic

instruments. “I wanted a timeless-meets-

modern live jam – the directness of an

unadorned trio capturing the spirit; and

the samples, synthetics and electronic

boom capturing the psychological

mood. I searched for one-off drones,

spoken voices, feedback, urban

recordings; not unlike the way I worked

in the mid-90s.”

Watt embarks on a major UK tour in

support of the new material kicking off

on 27 February at Belgrave Music

Hall in Leeds.

Magne

Furuholmen’s

solo album

Xmas LiesWhite

reviewed on is

page 80

UP

A-HA GET THEIR OWN BACK

AT TRUMP’S MIMICRY

When US President Donald Trump borrowed

imagery from Norwegian pop legends A-ha to

help get re-elected, they hit back in the most

brilliant fashion. The band’s Magne Furuholmen

was not impressed when Trump tweeted a

video portraying the President in pencil-drawn

animation, similar to the Take On Me video,

dancing and hugging the US fl ag. Furuholmen

responded with his own video for a song titled

This Is Now America in which he sings, “This is

Now America, this is now America/ Oh how

little we have learnt/ This is now America, this

is now America/ Is there no way to turn.”

Magne captioned the video for the song,

shot by his son with, “The video for our song

Take On Me seems to have

inspired @realDonaldTrump to make his

tie-advert, but then he in turn inspired me to

write this.”

This Is Now America features on Magne’s

latest solo album White Xmas Lies.