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The "Brum Beat" Trivia Quiz

The "Brum Beat" was a vibrant music scene in Birmingham UK in the '60s. How many of its major players can you identify from my condensed biographies?

A multiple-choice quiz by Mutchisman. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Mutchisman

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
238,822

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
8 / 10

Plays
1278

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

Last 3 plays: harveysh (6/10), Guest 90 (8/10), Guest 67 (10/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. After a brief spell in prison, this singer helped to found Black Sabbath. His outrageous antics both on and off stage led to a split with the band. In recent years he has become a cult TV personality. Hint

Bill Ward

Terence "Geezer" Butler

John "Ozzy" Osbourne

Tony Iommi

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Question 2 of 10

2. This singer and multi-instrumentalist found success in three different bands: The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and Blind Faith before embarking on a successful solo career. Hint

Chris Ward

Jim Capaldi

Steve Winwood

Dave Mason

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Question 3 of 10

3. This singer and guitarist was in cult Birmingham band The Idle Race, before joining The Move and then co-founding ELO, with whom he had huge international success. Hint

Bob Lamb

Dave Carroll

Jeff Lynne

Greg Masters

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Question 4 of 10

4. This singer and multi-instrumentalist was in legendary Birmingham band Mike Sheridan and the Nightriders before co-founding both The Move and ELO. He left ELO before they became really successful, but found further success with his glam-rock band, Wizzard. Hint

Ace Kefford

Carl Wayne

Roy Wood

Rick Price

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Question 5 of 10

5. This one's a little more difficult. This founder member of The Move left the band shortly after a now famous on-stage altercation with the band's drummer! Hint

Dave Pritchard

Johnny Mann

Roger Spencer

Trevor Burton

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Question 6 of 10

6. Guitarist and singer with The Moody Blues, this man left the band soon after their early successes. He was part of several largely unsuccessful projects until linking up with Paul McCartney in Wings, who had massive single and album successes worldwide. Hint

Viv Prince

Denny Laine

John Lodge

Mike Pinder

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Question 7 of 10

7. Guitarist who lost the tips of two fingers in a factory accident. Despite this setback, his driving riffs helped to define his band's sound, and also helped give birth to "Heavy Metal". Hint

Neil Cressin

Tony Iommi

Alan Meredith

Pat Pegg

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Question 8 of 10

8. Drummer with several local bands but more famously with both The Move and ELO. He was also briefly the sticksman for Black Sabbath. Hint

Gerald Freeman

Al Jackson

Phil Cash

Bev Bevan

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Question 9 of 10

9. Remarkably the "Brum beat" group The Band of Joy contained two members destined for worldwide stardom: the vocalist and the drummer both were to join a band initially called The New Yardbirds. They soon changed this name and went on to become one of the biggest rock groups of all time. The singer was? Hint

Robert Plant

Ian Gillan

Noddy Holder

David Cowley

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Question 10 of 10

10. And the drummer with The Band of Joy was? Hint

John Handcox

John Bonham

Alan Madden

Steve Brett

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: John "Ozzy" Osbourne

From snorting ants to decapitating bats, the stories about "Ozzy" are legion. Amazingly most of them appear to be true!

2. This singer and multi-instrumentalist found success in three different bands: The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and Blind Faith before embarking on a successful solo career.

Answer: Steve Winwood

The highly acclaimed Steve Winwood has played with some of the biggest names in rock including Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix.
The other three names listed co-founded Traffic with Stevie.

3. This singer and guitarist was in cult Birmingham band The Idle Race, before joining The Move and then co-founding ELO, with whom he had huge international success.

Answer: Jeff Lynne

Jeff later became a hugely successful record producer, and also joined The Travelling Wilburys with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Roy Orbison and others.
If you listen carefully to ELO's "All Over the World", you can hear a mention of Shard End, the area of Birmingham Jeff grew up in!

Answer: Roy Wood

The Wizzard hit, "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day", charmingly gives a credit to "The Stockland Green Bilateral School First Year Choir": Roy has always been proud of his Birmingham roots.

5. This one's a little more difficult. This founder member of The Move left the band shortly after a now famous on-stage altercation with the band's drummer!

Answer: Trevor Burton

Trevor was a blues man through and through and didn't like the "poppy" direction The Move was taking. He hated "Blackberry Way" and one night in Sweden launched an attack on the drummer when he insisted they play that number.
Trevor still plays the blues with a passion in local Birmingham pubs
and clubs, so if you're ever in town with an evening to kill, you could do worse than seeing him.

Answer: Denny Laine

The Moody Blues tried hard to get sponsorship from local brewery M&Bs, hence the band's initials. Denny sang lead vocals on one of their biggest hits, "Go Now".

7. Guitarist who lost the tips of two fingers in a factory accident. Despite this setback, his driving riffs helped to define his band's sound, and also helped give birth to "Heavy Metal".

Answer: Tony Iommi

Tony had this potentially disastrous accident on the day he was giving up work to tour with Black Sabbath. At first it was feared he would not be able to play, but encouraged by the story of Django Rheinhardt he managed to devise a way of playing, aided by two sewing thimbles!

8. Drummer with several local bands but more famously with both The Move and ELO. He was also briefly the sticksman for Black Sabbath.

Answer: Bev Bevan

Bev was the target of Trevor Burton's on stage assault.
He can now be found playing records on a local radio station.

Answer: Robert Plant

Yes, The New Yardbirds became Led Zeppelin.
Robert was born in West Bromwich,just a few miles up the road from Birmingham. He still has roots in the midlands and occasionally plays unannounced gigs in the Kidderminster area.

10. And the drummer with The Band of Joy was?

Answer: John Bonham

John Bonham hailed from Redditch, some twenty miles South of Birmingham.
Of the thirty names given as "wrong" answers all bar one had some part to play in "Brum beat". My thanks to them and to the many others not mentioned for their part in a dynamic piece of local history.

Source: Author Mutchisman

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