Musical Family Ties Part 1 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Daughter: Lisa Marie Presley

If you need to know more about Elvis Presley, The King, then you don't really care for music, do ya?
Elvis had 18 number one hits on the Billboard charts and his daughter Lisa Marie followed him into the music business.

Two of her three albums hit the top ten of the Billboard 200.
Offstage she had a dramatic personal life, having been married four times and struggled with an opioid addiction.

She died of natural causes in 2023 at the age of 54 and was buried beside her father, her son and her grandparents in the garden of the Graceland Estate in Tennessee.

Answer: Zak Starkey

Ringo Starr was not the first drummer with The Beatles, but once he joined the band found worldwide fame and acclaim.
After the band broke up he continued his musical career with his All Starr Band, which often featured guest musicians. As a solo artist he had two number one singles in the USA.

His son, Zak, also became a drummer and featured in a number of bands including Oasis and a long tenure with The Who. Zak became regarded as an underrated drummer, while Ringo was often cited by other drummers as one of the best in the business.

Answer: James McCartney

As a member of The Beatles, Paul McCartney had 20 US Number One hits, with 18 chart toppers in the UK. He had nine number one hits as a solo artist and with Wings.

His son, James, followed him into the business and had a UK number 15 album in 2016. Reviewers described him as a confident singer but, in general, reviews were mixed.

Answer: Jakob Dylan

Bob Dylan's life and career has been well dissected and well known but one piece of interesting information you may have missed is that his main home at Malibu, California, has a staircase with 14 steps going up from first floor to second and 13 steps coming down from second to first.

Jakob Dylan followed him into the music business but reviews were generally lukewarm. In one review the 'L A Times' suggested he "might do well to cloak himself in his father's legend, however, since his modest (albeit generally agreeable) talent is unlikely to take him far on its own."
Jakob Dylan had two albums hit the top 30 of the Billboard albums charts

I may have made up that II about Bob Dylan's house.

Answer: Jen Chapin

"Cats In The Cradle" was the sole number one hit by the New York City native Harry Chapin in a career that was well heralded. Still, Chapin was at his best in concert with a faithful audience. He was awarded a posthumous Congregational Medal Of Honour for his humanitarian work.

Chapin's daughter, Jennifer, recorded regularly from 2000. Her music has been described as "jazz tinged urban folk soul ... incorporating the funk, soul and improvisation of the city"." [Source, own website].
She served as a director of WhyHunger, the charitable organisation that her father co-founded.

Answer: Rufus Wainwright

Loudon Wainwright III was a native of North Carolina (a Tar Heel). His biggest chart hit was "Dead Skunk" in 1972.
Wainwright wanted to be an actor before getting into the 1970s folk scene, where, it is fair to say, he struck a very individual figure. His songs were funny, romantic, and caustic.
He often wrote about his children, Rufus and Martha, sometimes to their discomfort.

Rufus Wainwright appealed to the critics more than his father did, perhaps his music was less...strange. His best US chart performance was a Billboard Hot Rock number 16 with his cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah".

Answer: Kirsty MacColl

Ewan MacColl was born in Lancashire, England, in 1915. One of his best-known songs was "Dirty Old Town", which was inspired by the industrial grimness he saw in his native county.
He also wrote "The First Time Ever I Saw Her Face" for his girlfriend (later wife) Peggy Seeger.

It was was to be covered by many artists, notably Roberta Flack, who had a massive hit with it in 1972. It won her two Grammys that year.

Kirsty MacColl was a more conventional pop singer/songwriter. She had a number seven hit in the UK in 1984 with a cover of the Billy Bragg song "A New England". In 1981 "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis" reached Number 14.

In 1987 her collaboration with the London Irish band The Pogues hit Number Two in the UK with "A Fairytale of New York" - that hit went on to become one of the most popular Christmas songs ever.

Answer: Django Walker

Jerry Jeff Walker was born in New York State and had an early career with the band Circus Maximus, fusing folk and blues. He later settled in Austin, Texas, and was at the forefront of creating the 'Outlaw Country' sound.
His best known song was probably "Mister Bojangles" - written about an itinerant street entertainer he shared a cell with in New Orleans. In 1969 the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band took it to number nine on the Billboard Hot 100.

His son, Django, was born in 1981 and released three albums in the early 21st century. He was also noted for writing "Texas On My Mind" for Pat Green and Cory Morrow.

Answer: Father: Tim Buckley

Jeff Buckley had a hit with his cover of "Hallelujah", by Leonard Cohen. The song has had hundreds of covers, but many people rated Buckley's as the best. It reached number two on the Official UK Singles Charts and topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2008.

Buckley's promising career was cut shot by his death by drowning at the age of 30 in 1997.

His father, Tim, dropped out of college in 1965 to become a folk musician. While no one in the business doubted Tim Buckley's talent, he was hugely underrated by the record-buying public. Buckley died of a drugs overdose at the age of 28 in 1975.

Answer: Daughter: Amy Lee Nelson

Willie Nelson was born in April 1933 and was raised by his paternal grandparents, who passed on to him their love of music - teaching him and his brother guitar. Willie wrote his first poem at the age of five in church and began performing just about a year later. In a stellar career he was the man behind many hits as singer or writer. In 2024, 'Rolling Stone' magazine rated him number six in their list of "Top 10 Country Artists Of All Time".
Before he made his breakthrough, though, he wrote a song called "Crazy" that became a mega hit for Patsy Cline.

Amy Lee Nelson was one half of the duo Folk Uke, with Arlo Guthrie's daughter Cathy. They generally played with a ukulele and an acoustic guitar. Many of their songs were humorous, and some a bit twisted. ( I don't think I could get away here with quoting from a song called "... Makes The Garden Grow".)