OT - The Pub Quiz Thread

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QPR999 said:
Cheers Strolls. Going with the same theme of your previous music question........ Lessons in love by Level 42 was inspired by what unlikely song? It even retains the same chord progression.
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Just listened to it again, but can't place it yet. It's going to be going through my head for a while.
 
QPR999 said:
Lessons in love by Level 42 was inspired by what unlikely song? It even retains the same chord progression.
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[video=youtube;L0CVoFsUhC4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0CVoFsUhC4&feature=youtu.be&a[/video]

[video=youtube;gt7mtdLha-c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt7mtdLha-c&feature=youtu.be&a[/video]
 
I can see where you're coming from Killy, but 'Fantasy' has almost thirty different chords in it. Which is the most I have seen for any song. Here's a clue.

World War 2.

You might be better off 'Googling' it. There's a video out there with Mark King on the 'One Show' explaining how it influenced the song. I can hear the similarity... just. But it's difficult if you don't have a musical ear.
 
QPR999 said:
I can see where you're coming from Killy, but 'Fantasy' has almost thirty different chords in it. Which is the most I have seen for any song. Here's a clue.
World War 2.
You might be better off 'Googling' it. There's a video out there with Mark King on the 'One Show' explaining how it influenced the song. I can hear the similarity... just. But it's difficult if you don't have a musical ear.
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Well Nines, my wife always says that I'm totally tone deaf (I recall in primary school at a young age getting a D in music on my report card, with a note indicating "does not sing in tune"), so when it comes to identifying music I have to rely on my research skills. Given all that, I still know what I like in music!

Your WWII clue pointed me towards Vera Lynn, but it's certainly not "White Cliffs of Dover", so I Googled your other clue, which reveals the inspiration came from "We'll Meet Again".

[video=youtube;p9gvJGBydRY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9gvJGBydRY&feature=youtu.be&a[/video]

[video=youtube;HsM_VmN6ytk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsM_VmN6ytk&feature=youtu.be&a[/video]
 
Well done Killy, I'm still developing my 'Musical Ear' as I've always been a drummer so I would've probably been tone deaf too, had I not picked up the guitar and tinkered with a keyboard.

Take it away my friend....
 
Event witnessed by Thomas Hardy aged sixteen that provided the inspiration to later write "Tess of the d'Urbervilles"?
 
So assuming I am right...
From what macho film do these lines come from....

It's grand to be an Englishman in 1910, King Edward's on the throne, It's the age of men
 
qprbeth said:
Augusta Way an 18 year old milkmaid, who the middle aged Hardy walked passed each morning. He thought her so beautiful (although he never spoke to her) that he modelled Tess on her. He also cast her daughter in the role of Tess in a later play of Tess of the D'Urbervilles..... methinks he was infatuated.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...red-Thomas-Hardy-write-Tess-Durbervilles.html
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That is correct too, but this is actually the angle I was coming at this from:-

On August 9 1856, Dorchester was particularly packed.

But this was not a time for trading or haggling or errands.

It was time for morbid entertainment – the execution of woman scorned, Elizabeth Martha Brown.

This Friday marks the anniversary of when between 3,000 and 4,000 people packed into North Square to witness her death; the last public hanging of a woman in Dorset.

But not only has Martha Brown gone down in history, she is also immortalised in fiction.

For one of the faces making up the crowd would become a famous writer and get the inspiration for his novel, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, from this event.

Author and researcher Rosemary Ellerbeck, pictured right, said: “The main reason for the fascination with Martha Brown is that Thomas Hardy, aged 16, witnessed her execution.

“He kept her memory going."

“It did really affect Hardy’s life. It haunted him all his life.”

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/localnews/dorchester/10596383.The_hanging_of_Martha_Brown/

Dorchester - The Execution of Elizabeth Martha BROWN

From Broadwinsor at Dorchester gaol on 09 August 1856
She was the last woman to be publicly hanged in Dorset, as witnessed by Thomas Hardy then a young boy of 16.
The experience however stayed with him the rest of his life and he was 86 when he wrote:-

"I remember what a fine figure she showed against the sky as she hung in the misty rain and how the tight, black silk gown set off her shape as she wheeled half round and back".

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb...iles2/ExecutionElizabethMarthaClarke1856.html
 
qprbeth said:
From what macho film do these lines come from....
It's grand to be an Englishman in 1910, King Edward's on the throne, It's the age of men
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[video=youtube;LZXITCwBdJQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZXITCwBdJQ&feature=youtu.be&a[/video]
 
Boy we have found a plethora of alternative answers...Tess of D'urberville and that Smith's question...but no contention or confusion over my question...yes it is Mary Poppins. Take it away Kilburn....
 
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