Only the smartest music fans can get all these BBC Radio 2 Popmaster questions right – how many do you know?
ARE you a fan of Radio 2’s PopMaster quiz?
If so, you’ll have to tune in to a new station as DJ Ken Bruce is moving to Greatest Hits Radio – and taking his famous quiz with him – after 46 years with the BBC.
See how you’d get on by tackling EMILY FAIRBAIRN’s pick of Ken’s past questions.
1. SIMPLE MINDS had their biggest US hit when they had a 1985 No1 song from the film The Breakfast Club – what was it called?
2. SAIL On Sailor was the opening track on the 1973 album Holland, recorded by which successful American group?
3. THE band Fun spent six weeks at No1 in America in 2012 with We Are Young, but which female singer also features on the song?
read more on music
4. WHAT is the name of the guitarist with Genesis who formed the band Mike And The Mechanics?
5. IN which year were the following songs new entries in the pop charts: Unchained Melody by Gareth Gates, Home And Dry by Pet Shop Boys, and Insatiable by Darren Hayes?
6. DIANA ROSS had two hit duets in 1974 with Marvin Gaye – name either of them.
7. COMPLETE the title of this 1997 hit from Boyzone: Picture Of . . .
Most read in Music
8. WHICH early 1980s song by The Gap Band was often danced by a line of people rowing on the floor?
9. WHICH group of television comedians had a Top Ten hit in 1975 with the extremely daft song Black Pudding Bertha (The Queen Of Northern Soul)?
10. WHO had a Top Ten hit in 1997 with the James Bond theme, as featured in Tomorrow Never Dies?
11. NAME the Canadian group who had hits in the Noughties with the songs How You Remind Me and Rockstar.
12. OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN and Elo reached No1 in 1980 with which song?
13. WHAT A Girl Wants was a hit in 2000 from which singer?
14. WHAT kind of Love was Lady Gaga singing about on her 2020 single?
15. NAME any two members of the 1980s supergroup The Traveling Wilburys.
16. WHICH No1 for All Saints in 2000 featured in the film The Beach, starring Leonardo DiCaprio?
17. NAME the girl group who topped the charts in 2021 with Sweet Melody.
18. WHICH Take That member sang lead vocal on their 1995 No1 Never Forget – Jason Orange, Gary Barlow or Howard Donald?
READ MORE SUN STORIES
19. WHO were Smokie living next door to in 1976?
20. IN 1993, which Ace Of Base track spent three weeks at No1 in the UK – Don’t Turn Around, The Sign or All That She Wants?
Answers...
1. Don’t You (Forget About Me)
2. The Beach Boys
3. Janelle Monae
4. Mike Rutherford
5. 2002
6. You Are Everything or Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)
7. You
8. Oops Upside Your Head
9. The Goodies
10. Sheryl Crow
11. Nickelback
12. Xanadu
13. Christina Aguilera
14. Stupid
15. George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne
16. Pure Shores
17. Little Mix
18. Howard Donald
19. Alice
20. All That She Wants.