Q 01/05

Which Welsh singer fronted Art of Noise's 1988 cover of Prince's 'Kiss' after adding the song to his Las Vegas show?

A) Shakin' Stevens

B) Tom Jones

C) Cliff Richard

D) Rod Stewart

Answer · why

B) Tom Jones

Tom Jones gave the group its biggest hit, reaching number 5 in the UK, higher than Prince's original had climbed there. The group contacted him after ...

Q 02/05

Which pioneer of 'twangy' 1950s guitar played on Art of Noise's Grammy-winning 1986 version of 'Peter Gunn'?

A) Duane Eddy

B) Link Wray

C) Hank Marvin

D) Dick Dale

Answer · why

A) Duane Eddy

Duane Eddy had taken the same tune into the charts back in 1959, so the collaboration revisited a riff he had made his own 27 years earlier.

Q 03/05

Which composer of the Pink Panther theme wrote 'Peter Gunn', the TV detective tune Art of Noise turned into a 1986 hit?

A) Lalo Schifrin

B) Burt Bacharach

C) Henry Mancini

D) John Barry

Answer · why

C) Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini wrote it for the television series Peter Gunn, and the pianist pounding out the riff on his original recording was a young John Williams...

Q 04/05

Which 1980s TV character supplied the vocals on Art of Noise's 1986 single 'Paranoimia'?

A) Metal Mickey

B) Roland Rat

C) Kryten

D) Max Headroom

Answer · why

D) Max Headroom

Max Headroom was really actor Matt Frewer in prosthetic make-up, not computer graphics. He recorded different monologues for the 7-inch and 12-inch ve...

Q 05/05

Art of Noise's Trevor Horn found fame in which band, whose 1979 chart-topper was the first video shown on MTV?

A) The Buggles

B) Ultravox

C) Blancmange

D) The Human League

Answer · why

A) The Buggles

The Buggles' 'Video Killed the Radio Star' topped the UK chart in 1979, then opened MTV's very first broadcast in August 1981.