'Picture This' - Band Names in Pictures 1 Quiz

Answer: Quiet Riot

Quiet Riot was founded in 1973 by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bass player Kelly Garni. Their greatest success came in 1983 with the release of a cover version of the 1973 hit single 'Cum on Feel the Noize' by British glam rock band Slade which achieved a highest placing at number five on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Proving much less successful, Quiet Riot followed this in 1984 with a cover of another Slade song, 'Mama Weer All Crazee Now' which attained a chart position at number fifty-one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Since his tragic death in 1982, Rhoads has become regarded as one of the finest guitar players of the rock genre; his Jackson signature 'V' style guitar remains one of that company's most popular models. Sadly, the band also lost their singer Kevin DuBrow to a cocaine overdose in November 2007 forcing a three year hiatus upon the band until their revival in 2010.

Answer: Aerosmith

Aerosmith was formed in 1970 by guitarist Joe Perry and bass player Tom Hamilton in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. Initial success came with their eponymous debut album which was certified double platinum with a second album 'Get Your Wings' achieving triple platinum status in the United States; both albums were also certified platinum in Canada. Rapid success came with its own set of problems, both Perry and singer Steven Tyler descending into a world of substance abuse, the pair becoming known as the Toxic Twins due to the copious quantities of drugs and alcohol that they were consuming. Aerosmith's popularity began to fade during the early 1980s until, in 1986, Tyler and Perry appeared in the music video for the Run-DMC cover version of the 1975 Aerosmith song 'Walk This Way' thereby propelling the band back into the limelight and introducing them to a new and younger audience.

Despite other issues and dynamics within the band over recent decades, Aerosmith still have the capacity to fill stadiums across the globe.

Answer: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

OMD, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, was formed in Liverpool, England in 1978 by Andrew McCluskey and Paul Humphries and today are considered by some to be one of the most important bands to come out of Great Britain in recent decades. Orchestral Manoeuvres enjoyed their greatest period of success with the 1980 album 'Organisation' and the 1981 recording 'Architecture and Morality' which achieved their highest placing at numbers six and three respectively on the UK Album Chart.

The follow-up album to 'Architecture' was 1983's 'Dazzle Ships' which signalled a departure from their usual pop orientated style but which also lost the band a significant number of its fans.

Interestingly, OMD's management threatened to resign if the band released the song 'Enola Gay' as a single, stating that the pop tune's subject matter was inappropriate.

The song went on to become a multi-million selling success and the band used 'Enola Gay' as the closer at their concerts for many years.

Answer: Lou Reed

Born in Brooklyn on the 2nd of March 1942, Lou Reed experienced a troubled childhood which resulted in periods in hospital undergoing treatment for anxiety and depression, including sessions of electric shock therapy, a brutal form of treatment and something for which he never forgave his parents for putting him through. Between 1964 and 1970 and before embarking on a solo career, Reed was a member of the band the Velvet Underground with John Cale.

Although the Velvet Underground enjoyed little commercial success, Reed's solo breakthrough album, 'Transformer' released in 1972 and co-produced by Bowie and Mick Ronson, features those timeless songs for which he has become known for; 'Walk on the Wild Side', 'Satellite of Love' and 'Perfect Day'.

The music world lost a unique talent on the 27th of October 2013 when Reed died from liver disease after receiving a liver transplant earlier in May of the same year.

Answer: Canned Heat

Canned Heat were founded in 1966 by blues music historians Alan 'Owl' Wilson and Bob 'The Bear' Hite, adopting their name from a 1928 recording of a song of the same name by Tommy Johnson. The band's greatest recording successes have been the three worldwide hit songs 'On The Road Again' in 1968, 'Going Up the Country' in 1969 and 'Let's Work Together' in 1970; of these, undoubtedly the most well known is 'Going up the Country' which has become a rock anthem and which has been adopted as the unofficial anthem for those who have since become known as the Woodstock Generation. Canned Heat's position in the annals of rock history was secured with their famous performances at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and as the headline act at the original Woodstock Festival during August 1968.

Answer: Stiff Little Fingers

Stiff Little Fingers were founded in Belfast, Northern Ireland by Jake Burns, Henry Cluney, Brian Falcon and Ali McMordie during 1977. The band came to the forefront of the British punk movement with their singles 'Suspect Device' and 'Wasted Years', two songs that the fledgling band recorded on their own Rigid Digits label and sent to BBC Radio One DJ John Peel in November 1977. Mistakenly pigeon-holed by some as a republican band, nothing could be further from the truth as three of the four members of Stiff Little Fingers were Protestants! After enjoying considerable success SLF split in 1983 but, since reuniting in 1988, they have continued to record and perform solidly around the world and have been cited as influences by the likes of bands such as Rancid, Therapy and Bad Religion. How about one interesting fact about Stiff Little Fingers? They were the first band ever to reach the top twenty in the album charts with an album, 'Inflammable Material', recorded and released purely through an independent label.

Answer: Lightning Seeds

Alternative rock band The Lightning Seeds were founded in Liverpool by Ian Broudie in 1989. Originally conceived as a studio band, it became a living, breathing, touring entity after the success of the 1994 recording 'Jollification'. Prior to founding the Lightning Seeds, Broudie performed with the band Big in Japan along with Bill Drummond, Holly Johnson and Budgie all of whom were to enjoy recording success with the KLF, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Siouxsie and the Banshees respectively. In 1996 the Lightning Seeds were approached by the English Football Association to write and record the official song for the England football squad taking part in the UEFA European Championships which Broudie undertook with help from the popular comedians Frank Skinner and David Baddiel. To accompany and promote the song, which has achieved the number one spot in the UK Singles Chart in both 1996 and again in 1998 with revised lyrics, a controversial video which played on the name of one of the members of the German squad at that time, was recorded; it was censored by television broadcasters and rarely seen at the time for being offensively xenophobic. I'll not go into any further detail regarding this; if you're interested I'll leave you to research it! It is testament to the song's popularity that it was sung by German football fans at celebrations held to welcome home their victorious team at the end of the tournament. Prior to his tenure with British musical institution The Who, drummer Zak Starkey the son of former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, was a regular member of the Lightning Seeds rhythm section.

Answer: Genesis

Founded at the public Charterhouse School located in the town of Godalming, Surrey by Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel, Anthony Phillips and Chris Stewart during 1967, Genesis' first album released in October 1970 was 'Trespass'. The album failed to chart in the UK and the US but was responsible for the band's music being brought to a European audience after reaching the number one position in the Belgian album chart. During the 1970s the band released, among others, the albums 'Selling England by the Pound', 'Wind and Wuthering', 'Foxtrot' and their first album as a three-piece '...And Then There Were Three'.

This 1978 album started Genesis' transition from epic prog-rock compositions to a far more accessible rock style; the band's first truly successful single, 'Follow You, Follow Me' being the first single lifted from this album and which achieved a number seven position on the UK Singles Chart and the number twenty-three spot on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Here's an interesting fact...

The property, a dairy and associated buildings in Chiddingfold, Surrey which was purchased by the band in 1980 and converted into the recording studio known as The Farm, was built by my grandfather!

Answer: Judas Priest

Founded in Birmingham by vocalist Allan Atkins and bass player Bruno Stapenhill during 1969, Judas Priest's first album was 'Rocka Rolla' which was released in 1974. The band were relatively successful but their breakthrough came with the 1980 album 'British Steel' which featured an altogether raw, stripped back sound and a departure from their earlier style. Outside of their fan base, Judas Priest are probably best known for the songs 'Living After Midnight' and 'Breaking the Law', both released as singles during 1980 and 'Hell Bent for Leather' which was released as a 'B'-side to 'Rock Forever' in 1979 . Famously, in 1991, Judas Priest found themselves in court in the United States after the mothers of two young men who had attempted suicide brought charges against the band which accused them of compelling their sons to do so through subliminal messages hidden in their 1978 recording of the 1969 song 'Better by You, Better than Me' which was originally recorded by the band Spooky Tooth.

Answer: Spin Doctors

Superman could never tolerate 'A Pocketful of Kryptonite', the title of the Spin Doctors first studio album, in his record collection (if he had one). Founded in New York City during the late 1980s from the remnants of a band named Trucking Company by Eric Schenkman and John Popper, musicians Chris Barron, Aaron Comess and Mark White completed the line-up during the second quarter of 1989.

The Spin Doctors greatest singles success to date are the songs 'Two Princes' and 'Little Miss Can't be Wrong' both released in 1991 and achieved their highest placing at positions number seven and seventeen respectively on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

These chart positions belie the fact that during the early 1990s the Spin Doctors were one of the biggest bands in the United States, in fact it was said that 'A Pocketful of Kryptonite' was that decade's equivalent of the iconic 1970s album 'Frampton Comes Alive'... I can't see that personally. Today the band, whose celebrity status has dwindled, appears regularly on the nostalgia circuit.