80s and 90s pop quiz - answer one, ask one...

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City of origin of the band ‘they might be giants’... and go...

Guessing: Two tribes

No - it's Welcome to the Pleasuredome.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a Pleasuredome erect.

What was the first CD to sell a million copies? I have the album on vinyl, Luddite that I am.

What’s vinyl, grandma? 😉

I have a vague idea it was the dire Straits one brothers in arms.

I agree, LoveMySituation. Either that or Stars by Simply Red.

What was the title of Neil Diamond's E.T. themed song ?

It was Heartlight.

Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits was the first million selling CD.

How many Neighbours actors had hit records? Extra points for naming them.

Stefan Dennis, Kylie, Jason, Gayle and Gillian whatsit, Natalie Imbruglia, Craig Mclaughlin, think that's all obsessed with eighties neighbours

Play the game @LoveMySituation - your turn to ask a question!

OK fudge, I've thought of one. What was the original name of the band that became Tears for Fears?

History of Headaches.

What band was Limahl in?

Kajagoogoo. Maybe I should have been clearer. I meant the band that the main two were in before leaving and striking out on their own

Graduate.

What band's member became an MEP?

You're not thinking if Dollar's David Van Day who is a councillor in Essex are you?

I thought he ran a burger van on the coast somewhere.

Nope.

Definitely an MEP.

British band.

Sorry everybody. Seems I was taken in by an urban myth. He left the band to "persue a career in politics".

However, the band member I'm thinking of was the Rector of the University of Edinburgh 1991–1994.

Dave Rowntree of Blur perchance?

I'll answer my own question as nobody else can be bothered :o. Jello Biafra's real name is Eric Boucher. The UK branch was run by Bill Gilliam.

Not Blur.

May I restart ? Thank you.

Whose only UK hit was 'Heartache Avenue' ?

Was it the masonettes? What were the 3 members if the Thompson twins called?

Alannah, Tom and the other fella, who I think left the group.

Who had a hit in 1981 with a cover of It's My Party?

Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin
Joe was the other Thompson twin

The teenager in me still giggles at 'Nobody knows where my Johnny has been'