Pop Trivia - Birthday Related (Answers)
They say it's your birthday...
- Elvis Presley (1935) and David Bowie (1947).
- Stevie Wonder and Altered Images. Perhaps surprisingly, Altered Images' song remained in the charts for longer.
- "It's My Party", originally recorded by Lesley Gore in 1963 and taken to No.1 by Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin in 1981. (What was it about 1981 and birthdays?)
- It appeared on Reggatta de Blanc. Unusually, Stewart Copeland (the drummer) sang lead vocals.
- Freddie Mercury.
Ice-cream and jelly
- Margate.
- "Who's That Girl?" by The Eurythmics.
- Johnny Kidd and the Pirates.
- Milli Vanilli. (OK, so I stretched a point a little.)
- Freddie Mercury.
Party fun
- 1910 Fruitgum Co.
- "99 Red Balloons" by Nena.
- Derek Dick. He got the name "Fish" because of the amount of time he spent in the bath, to his landlord's chagrin.
- Sulk.
- Freddie Mercury.
Send in the clowns
- Judy Collins.
- "American Pie", by Don McLean, in 1972. It peaked at No.2.
- The Beat.
- Leo Sayer. The song was "The Show Must Go On".
- Freddie Mercury.
Time to go home
- 1966: "Homeward Bound" by Paul Simon (and some backing vocalist or other).
- 1981: "Bed Sitter" by Soft Cell.
- 1982: "Our House" by Madness.
- 1989: "Homely Girl" by UB40.
- 1993: "Living On My Own" by Freddie Mercury. (This was the remix – the original (and far better) version was released in 1985 but only made it to No.50.)
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