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Answer: The King of Rock 'n Roll

"The King of Rock 'n Roll" was released in 1988 by Prefab Sprout from their album "From Langley Park to Memphis". It reached seventh place on the UK Singles charts. The album reached fifth place on the UK Albums chart. As a British band, they have always fared better on UK album charts, with only one album out of eleven recorded between 1984 and 2013 actually charting on the US Billboard charts.

Their 1985 album "Steve McQueen" reached position 180.

Answer: Rome

The Beautiful South recorded "Rotterdam (Or Anywhere)" for their 1990 album "Blue is the Colour". The song reached fifth place on the UK Singles chart and the album featured three other singles which placed on the charts as well. The band released ten studio albums. Notably, they featured three separate female vocalists. Briana Corrigan sang on albums one through three, Jacqui Abbott did albums four to seven and Alison Wheeler the final three.

Answer: The Clash

The Clash released the album "London Calling" in 1979, their third studio album. The lead single "London Calling" reached eleventh place on the UK charts, but was not released as single in the US. The song would drop off the charts and re-enter twice. Rolling Stone magazine's 2004 "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list has "London Calling" at position fifteen.

Answer: Vienna

Midge Ure and Ultravox released "Vienna" in 1981, recorded for the album of the same name. The song reached second place on the UK singles chart, but did reach top spot on the Belgian, Irish and Netherlands charts. The 1981 Brit Awards saw "Vienna" win "Single of the Year" and it was certified gold in the UK.

Answer: Smoke on the Water

"Smoke on the Water" was released on Deep Purple's 1972 album "Machine Head". Its best chart position was on the US Billboard chart, where it reached a solid fourth place. The best chart position was a second place on the Canadian charts. The song features at 434th on Rolling Stone's 2004 "500 greatest songs of all time" list and features in the top ten of various publication's top guitar riff lists.

Answer: Sympathy For the Devil

"Sympathy for the Devil" is from The Rolling Stones album "Beggars Banquet"(1968). The song reached thirty-second position on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and is notable for having songstress Marianne Faithful on backing vocals. Guns'n Roses covered the song in 1994 for the soundtrack to the film "Interview With The Vampire".

It managed to reach fifty-fifth position on the US charts.

Answer: Sister

Urge Overkill are possible more noted for their cover version of "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" which featured on the soundtrack too the 1994 film "Pulp Fiction", but have recorded six studio albums between 1989 and 2011. "Sister Havana" was recorded for the 1993 album "Saturation".

This song managed to chart fairly well on the US Modern Rock and US Mainstream Rock charts, reaching a top ten position on both charts.

Answer: Budapest

"Budapest" is from Jethro Tull's sixteenth studio album "Crest of a Knave" which was released in 1987. The album won the Grammy Award for "Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental" in 1989 and also managed a thirty-second place on the US charts and nineteenth on the UK charts.

Answer: The Four Lads

THe Four Lads were a Canadian band. They wrote "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" on the 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans and the song reached tenth place on the US Billboard charts in 1953 and was the band's first gold record.

The band They Might Be Giants recorded a cover version of the song in 1990, but it only managed a sixty-first position on the UK charts.

Answer: Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury, best known as the frontman for the British band Queen, recorded a collaborative album with Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballé in 1987 called "Barcelona". The song of the same name one of Mercury's greatest solo hits and reached eighth place on the UK Singles charts.

After his death in 1991, the song was featured at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games and the song re-entered the charts, peaking at second place.