Semi-Cool Facts

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The only group to have their first 4 albums all make it to #1 on the Billboard charts?
The Monkees. (The Beatles first album “Introducing the Beatles” was only released in England and never topped the US charts).

After Keith Moon passed out at the Who’s 1973 tour opener who was the 19 year-old  that answered as Pete Townshend’s asked the crowd “can anybody play the drums”?
Scot Halpin

What Soul legend does John Mellencamp tell us not to forget in R.O.C.K in the USA?
James Brown

Who filled in at the last minute after the Beach Boys decided not to play at the 1967  Monterey pop Festival?
Otis Redding

Levon Helm’s daughter Amy has another musician as her stepfather.  Who is he?
Donald Fagen of Steely Dan.  Her mother is writer Libby Titus.

Who is the only songwriter to have had a song recorded by the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan?
Answer: Arthur Alexander
Beatles- “Anna” , Rolling Stones- “You Better Move On”, Bob Dylan- “Sally Sue Brown”

What title track from a 1971 Rod Stewart album ends with the same phrase repeated 24 times in a row?
Every Picture Tells a Story
Don’t It?

What two British Bands had drummers named Roger Taylor in 1985?
Queen and Duran Duran

What rock guy admitted that he  “lifted every lick”  Chuck Berry ever played?
Keith Richards

What Police man’s Dad was chief CIA agent in Egypt and Lebanon?
Stewart Copeland’s