Women that ROCK - A Timeline Trivia Quiz

Grace was the lead singer for the foundational band of San Francisco's psychedelic rock scene of the late sixties, Jefferson Airplane. Jerry Garcia was listed as the band's 'Spiritual Advisor' in the liner notes.

Before her solo album, she was the lead singer for a band named Big Brother and the Holding Company who released an eponymous album in 1967. "Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!" would be the only solo album released during her lifetime.

Smith was a big fan of the French poet prodigy, Arthur Rimbaud. One story goes that she wanted to release the album on his birthday, October 20. Unfortunately, a vinyl shortage pushed the date back to November 10. That would be the day that Rimbaud passed away.

It was such a significant record that the U.S. Library of Congress put it on the National Recording Registry. They called it "Culturally, Historically, and Aesthetically significant."

The 1975 release of "Dreamboat Annie" was in only Canada. It wasn't released in the US until 1976 after their band, Heart, killed it while opening for Rod Stewart in Montreal that summer. The album would stay on the (US) Billboard Hot 200 for one hundred weeks.

The album's hit single "Heartbreaker" was a cover of a British song from 1978. Benetar rewrote the lyrics and changed out the pronouns to make it a song for her, instead of using the song's originally male perspective.

The album was rejected twenty three times, called 'too punk', until Jett and her manager paid for the pressing themselves. They even sold albums out of the trunk of their car. Her backing band was elite. It featured members of punk legends The Sex Pistols, Blondie, and The Runaways.

After reaching tremendous success with Fleetwood Mac, Nicks surrounded herself with industry legends for her debut solo album "Bela Donna". Tom Petty, Don Henley, E Street Band pianist Roy Bittan and Donald 'Duck' Dunn from the Blues Brothers all contributed to the album. It would top the (US) Billboard Hot 200 and stay on the chart for three years, eventually going quadruple-platinum.

Four of the album's tracks would make the top five of the (US) Billboard
Hot 100; "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," "Time After Time," "She Bop," and "All Through the Night." Lauper would take a page from Pat Benetar and cover songs, but change them to a female perspective. "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" was originally performed from a male perspective by American Rocker Robert Hazzard. "Money Changes Everything" was from The Brains. She even re-worked Prince's "When You Were Mine".

Morrissette's debut album would go on to sell over 30 million copies. "Jagged Little Pill" was nominated for nine Grammys, wining five. This included Album of the Year. At just twenty-one years old she was, at the time, the youngest artist to win Album of the Year.

"Let Go" would be given the highest rating by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It sold over ten million units in the United States and was given Diamond status. The Kelly Clarkson hit "Breakaway' was originally supposed to be on "Let Go". The label, Arista Records, felt it wasn't a fit for Lavigne and gave it to Clarkson.