When Bands Go Bad Match Quiz | Music Mixture

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1. All they had to to was dream about love and success. Onstage they sang in beautiful harmonies: offstage, not so much. Then one of them smashed his guitar in concert and stormed off. Who were they?

Answer: Phil and Don Everly

The career of the Everly Brothers began in 1956 and the first part ended in 1973 after that famous time when Phil smashed his guitar onstage and walked off.
Through the early part of their career the brothers had numerous disagreements, not helped by their substance abuse.
They remained estranged until 1983 when they reunited and performed off and on until Phil died in 2014.
In their early years, The Everly Brothers took 35 songs into the US top 30 and had four number one singles.

2. Which duo seemed to have everything, then got Out Of Touch after one filed a restraining order against the other?

Answer: Daryl Hall and John Oates

The details of the litigation have been sealed so we do not know why Hall obtained a temporary restraining order against Oates in 2013. A year earlier Hall said in an interview: "You think John Oates is my partner?...He's my business partner. He's not my creative partner."
'Variety' reported that the duo broke up when Oates tried to sell his half of their company. Hall called this the "ultimate partnership betrayal." Oates, in turn, said he got fed up with the complex legal issues. They last performed together in 2022.

3. They fell out often but managed to sometimes bridge troubled waters and reconcile: which duo's animosity periodically led to the sound of silence?

Answer: Simon and Garfunkel

The singing together career of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel was a series of fits and starts. Paul Simon went solo in 1970 while Art Garfunkel pursued an acting career. (Some said Simon was jealous.)
Beginning in 1956 they had periods off and on and last performed together in 2010. They did have a personal reunion in 2024, with no talk at that stage of getting together again to sing.
Throughout all the good years and the sad in between years, they had 17 songs in the Billboard Hot 100, three reaching the top.

4. While they didn't like to look back in anger, brotherly love was often missing between two members of a Manchester band. After all the things they said about each other, it was a wonderwall when they definitely maybe announced a reunion tour in 2025. Who were they?

Answer: Liam and Noel Gallagher

Disputes and sibling rivalry were said to be behind the break-up of Oasis, whose two most famous members were the brothers Gallagher, Liam and Noel. Overindulgence in intoxicating liquor may have had something to do with it after a backstage fight in 2009. Noel had accused Liam of having a hangover that led to a cancelled performance.
Fifteen years of insults and bickering followed. Then, in 2025, came news of a 41-date reunion tour. The opening night in Cardiff attracted five-star reviews in some newspapers.

5. They grow up surfin' USA and shared good vibrations for years until one mocked the other's singing, while the other resorted to legal action over songwriting credits. Who were these far-from-kissing cousins?

Answer: Mike Love and Brian Wilson

The Beach Boys were a bit of a dysfunctional family that bickered constantly - even as the hits rolled in. Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson were brothers, and were joined by their cousin Mike Love. The fifth BB, Al Jardine, was not related to any of the others.
Mike Love and Brian Wilson seemed to rub each other up the wrong way and they were the centre of most of the disputes. Substance abuse did not help - where have we heard that before in the music business?
Carl Wilson was the musical director and peacemaker. When he died in 1998 there was no one to hold the feuding in check. The band essentially came to the end of the road after that.
Paul McCartney was a fan. On Brian Wilson's death he said: "The notes he heard in his head and passed to us were simple and brilliant at the same time. How we will continue without Brian Wilson, 'God Only Knows'. Thank you, Brian".
Their recording history shows four number one singles amid 15 songs in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.

6. I wonder where all the good times had gone when one brother called the other "a control freak" and said "he sucks me dry of ideas...". Whose feud lasted longer than a lazy Sunday?

Answer: Ray and Dave Davies

Ray and Dave Davies and Pete Quaife formed The Kinks in London in 1963. They quickly had a number of hit songs in the UK and were part of the 'British Invasion' of the USA - although they were to be banned in the USA for four years from 1965.

Life within the band was chaotic. The brothers disagreed on just about everything. It became one of the most toxic and notorious musical feuds - until the Gallagher brothers came along some two decades later.
Eventually the kinks couldn't be straightened out any longer and the band officially broke up in 1996.

The Kinks had three UK number one records amid the 21 that made the top 40.

7. Don't stop believing that under the surface tensions can run high in apparently successful acts. Who left a top outfit claiming he "never really felt part of the band"?

Answer: Steve Perry, Journey

Perry was replaced by soundalike Steve Auger. Reports suggested that despite the band carrying on, other members frequently quarrelled.
Perry left citing the stress of touring and recording. He also fell out of love with the music. A hip injury did not help.
In time Perry launched a solo career and also adopted a more relaxed lifestyle.

8. I wonder did any of his bandmates mutter I wish you were here after a founder-member left. Who tried to get his former band to stop using their name?

Answer: Roger Waters, Pink Floyd

Waters began to feel that he was carrying the band with his songwriting and the others were just along for the trip.
As tension within the band grew, particularly between Waters and David Gilmour, Waters left after the recording of "The Final Cut".
Waters tried to stop the remaining band members using the name Pink Floyd. Legal action was settled out of court. The years did not seem to mellow the various personalities, indeed in 2023 Polly Samson, wife of David Gilmour, called Waters a "tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic."
Pink Floyd had seven singles in the UK top 40, one at number one. Seven albums hit the top spot among the 20 in the top 10.

9. In a roundabout way some disputes get settled, others persist. Fans of which British band probably felt close to the edge when two entities of their favourites performed in different places?

Answer: Yes

Yes were formed in 1968 by Jon Anderson and Chris Squire and were joined by Peter Banks, Ty Kaye and Bill Bruford.
In 2008, Yes singer Jon Anderson suffered from health issues and the band recruited Benoit David to keep a tour on track. Anderson was seemingly not best pleased - maybe he was at the gates of delirium - (did you see what I did there?) and started a new group with two former Yes bandmates, Trevor Rabna and Rick Wakeman.
At one point two versions of the band were on tour act the same time. A Yes entity announced a new tour in 2025.

10. Sacked once, then reinstated, only to be sacked again, which band's drummer probably vowed he wouldn't be fooled again?

Answer: The Who

Caveat, by the time you read this it is possible that The Who will have been Getting In Tune again.
Zak Starkey was sacked by The Who in April 2025 after a concert in which Roger Daltrey complained about the sound level of the drumming. He was reinstated, then sacked again a month later.
Starkey had joined the band in 1996.

11. He might have felt he was the fortunate son, the one who wrote most of the songs, but the others in the band thought he was domineering. There might have been a bad moon on the rise, so which band came to the end of the road because they felt the lead singer was too demanding?

Answer: Creedence Clearwater Revival

John Fogerty was lead singer and chief writer of CCR. His bandmates, though, felt he was too demanding - he was essentially producer and manager - reportedly he was not very good at that - as well.
The others wanted to have more of a contribution, so Fogerty allowed them to write songs for an album that flopped.
Tom Fogarty, John's brother, got fed up and quit in 1971. The others carried on for a while, but disbanded in 1972.

12. Personal and political differences left them disenchanted with each other but it did not help when one part of an duo lied to the other about having HIV. Of which band might one member have said to the other don't leave me this way?

Answer: The Communards

The Communards were Jimmy Sommerville and Richard Coles who got together in 1985 after Sommerville left The Bronski Beat.
In three years they released two albums and had three UK top ten hits - "Don't Leave Me This Way" was a number one.
Coles later became a Church of England priest. He later said in an interview he did not think he and Sommerville had really understood each other. "We liked each other because we were such opposite people," he said. Coles, who is gay, later admitted to his "shame" over lying that he had HIV.

13. They were the king and queen of the 60s folk era and enjoyed a personal and professional relationship, but love is just a four-letter word and eventually they parted. Whose relationship merged diamonds and rust?

Answer: Joan Baez and Bob Dylan

Dylan and Baez were contemporaries and lovers in the early 1960s, though Baez had been on the folk scene before the boy from the west country and promoted him as a newcomer to the Greenwich Village folkscene in 1961.

They sang and worked together for several years, but gradually their musical journeys diverged. Baez continued to concentrate on political and topical songs, Dylan wanted to go in another direction - indeed Dylan became dismissive of the topical songs genre. (Dylan also frequently denigrated his folk contemporaries in the 1960s, causing one of them to call him "an obnoxious jerk".)

It's thought that Dylan wrote several songs inspired by Baez - "Visions of Johanna" and "Like A Rolling Stone" among them. Baez wrote "Diamonds And Rust" and "To Bobby" abut her lover.
She also recorded his song "Love Is Just A Four Letter Word", which Dylan has never recorded or knowingly sung in concert.

14. Sometimes when you say love is not enough, you get through holding hands and understanding. Which power couple broke up because she felt he was controlling her earnings and career choices?

Answer: Sonny and Cher

In divorce proceeds in 1974, Cher claimed "involuntary servitude" for the break-up of her marriage to Sonny Bono. She also accused him of withholding musical earnings from her.

Their relationship did improve somewhat. Cher said: "One day he came into the kitchen at my house and said, 'Cher, I want to apologise. I realised that I hurt you in so many ways, and I was wrong.' That went a long way for me."

Sonny Bono died in a skiing accident in 1998. Between 1965 and 1973, the duo had 18 songs on the Billboard Hot 100. "I Got You Babe" hit the top spot in 1965

15. When you have two powerful forces in a trio, sometimes the third gets tired being the peacemaker. It was a strange brew, but which band eventually reached a crossroads and the members felt We're Going Wrong?

Answer: Cream

Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce formed Cream in London in 1966. Bruce was lead singer and main writer, Baker was drummer and Clapton played lead guitar. They had four UK top ten albums, while "I Feel Free" hit number eleven on the singles charts, their best result.

Cream are nowadays created as being the first "supergroup". The members had all previously been in successful bands

Baker and Bruce frequently disagreed and had high opinions of themselves. To borrow a line from a Phil Ochs song "their egos shone like lightbulbs".
It did not help that they seemed to be constantly touring and they felt they had gone as far as they could by 1968.

Source: Author darksplash

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When Bands Go Bad Trivia Quiz

First the harmonies bend, then they break: match the 15 musical acts to the clues behind their discordant demise.

Questions		Choices
1. All they had to to was dream about love and success. Onstage they sang in beautiful harmonies: offstage, not so much. Then one of them smashed his guitar in concert and stormed off. Who were they?		Roger Waters, Pink Floyd
2. Which duo seemed to have everything, then got Out Of Touch after one filed a restraining order against the other?		The Communards
3. They fell out often but managed to sometimes bridge troubled waters and reconcile: which duo's animosity periodically led to the sound of silence?		Mike Love and Brian Wilson
4. While they didn't like to look back in anger, brotherly love was often missing between two members of a Manchester band. After all the things they said about each other, it was a wonderwall when they definitely maybe announced a reunion tour in 2025. Who were they?		Steve Perry, Journey
5. They grow up surfin' USA and shared good vibrations for years until one mocked the other's singing, while the other resorted to legal action over songwriting credits. Who were these far-from-kissing cousins?		Simon and Garfunkel
6. I wonder where all the good times had gone when one brother called the other "a control freak" and said "he sucks me dry of ideas...". Whose feud lasted longer than a lazy Sunday?		Phil and Don Everly
7. Don't stop believing that under the surface tensions can run high in apparently successful acts. Who left a top outfit claiming he "never really felt part of the band"?		The Who
8. I wonder did any of his bandmates mutter I wish you were here after a founder-member left. Who tried to get his former band to stop using their name?		Sonny and Cher
9. In a roundabout way some disputes get settled, others persist. Fans of which British band probably felt close to the edge when two entities of their favourites performed in different places?		Liam and Noel Gallagher
10. Sacked once, then reinstated, only to be sacked again, which band's drummer probably vowed he wouldn't be fooled again?		Cream
11. He might have felt he was the fortunate son, the one who wrote most of the songs, but the others in the band thought he was domineering. There might have been a bad moon on the rise, so which band came to the end of the road because they felt the lead singer was too demanding?		Ray and Dave Davies
12. Personal and political differences left them disenchanted with each other but it did not help when one part of an duo lied to the other about having HIV. Of which band might one member have said to the other don't leave me this way?		Yes
13. They were the king and queen of the 60s folk era and enjoyed a personal and professional relationship, but love is just a four-letter word and eventually they parted. Whose relationship merged diamonds and rust?		Daryl Hall and John Oates
14. Sometimes when you say love is not enough, you get through holding hands and understanding. Which power couple broke up because she felt he was controlling her earnings and career choices?		Joan Baez and Bob Dylan
15. When you have two powerful forces in a trio, sometimes the third gets tired being the peacemaker. It was a strange brew, but which band eventually reached a crossroads and the members felt We're Going Wrong?		Creedence Clearwater Revival