Classic Rock quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   Why did Alice Cooper bring snakes and fake gallows onto rock stages?

   Answer: To create a horror persona

   Why: Magician James Randi built Cooper's stage guillotine and played the executioner on the 1973 Billion Dollar Babies tour.

2. 2 Medium

   Which guitarist played his Fender Stratocaster upside down?

   Answer: Jimi Hendrix

   Why: Flipping the guitar reversed its angled bridge pickup, giving his low strings more bite and his high strings a warmer tone.

3. 3 Hard

   Why did Pink Floyd use guest Roy Harper on 'Have a Cigar'?

   Answer: Roger Waters' voice was blown

   Why: Folk singer Roy Harper was recording his own album HQ in the same Abbey Road building and stepped in, repaying a favour to the band's guitarist.

4. 4 Easy

   What inspired John Lennon's song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?

   Answer: A drawing by his son

   Why: Julian was three. He named the nursery school drawing of classmate Lucy O'Donnell himself, and Lennon said he wrote the song immediately.

5. 5 Medium

   How did the band AC/DC find their name?

   Answer: A sewing machine

   Why: The letters stand for alternating current and direct current; sister Margaret Young spotted them and also created Angus's schoolboy uniform.

6. 6 Hard

   Which Led Zeppelin song was allegedly inspired by the band Spirit?

   Answer: Stairway to Heaven

   Why: A 2014 lawsuit claimed the song copied Spirit's instrumental Taurus, but a jury disagreed and an appeals court upheld that verdict in 2020.