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What 70’s rockband played their first gigs as the New Yardbirds?

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Led Zepplin

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Jimmy Page played what instrument with Led Zepplin?

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Guitar

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What genre of music originated in Jamaica?

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Reggae

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Ozzie Osborne was lead singer for what heavy metal band?

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Black Sabbath

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What major funk rock band was the first to integrate both race and gender into its band?

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Sly and the family Stone

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What jazz artist is considered to have the first jazz/rock fusion album?

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Miles Davis

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What glam artist created the character Ziggy Stardust for an album?

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David Bowie

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The glam artist who finished his shows with gruesome antics

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Alice Cooper

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The band that features singer Freddie Mercury

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Queen

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What Southern rock band was named after a high school teacher they didn’t like

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Lynyrd Skynyrd

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What black pop band was made up of a group of brothers from Gary, Indiana

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The Jackson Five

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The 1977 film that signaled the breakthrough of disco into mainstream popularity

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Saturday Night Fever

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What genre of rock music featured dancing called “pogo” and “moshing”

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Punk Rock

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What punk rocker is considered the “Godfather of Punk”?

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Iggy Pop

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The punk band who’s members adopted the same stage name despite none of them being related

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Ramones

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The rock group led by two sisters named Nancy & Anne Wilson

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Heart

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What does AOR stand for?

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Album Oriented Rock

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The rock band who features a virtuoso guitar player with the same last name

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Van Halen

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The music video cable show that premiered on August 1st, 1981?

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Music Television (MTV)

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The Artist known as the “King of Pop”

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Michael Jackson

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The album “The Dark Side of the Moon” is considered this group’s defining work

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Pink Floyd

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The origins of rap began in what city?

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Los Angeles

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The sub-genre of rock music performed by singers/musicians wearing outrageous clothes, makeup, hair-styles, & platform-soled shoes

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Glam Rock

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Artists who died at the age of 27

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Jimmi Hendrix, Janice Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones

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Who was the creator, producer, and founder of the dance program called Soul Train

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Don Cornelius

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