The Day the Music Died

Question 1: On February 3, 1959, a small plane went down near Clear Lake, Iowa during the Winter Dance Party tour, an event later memorialized as the day the music died. Name all three rock-and-roll musicians who lost their lives in that crash.

Question 2: Broadcast to an estimated 73 million viewers, which 1964 U.S. television appearance by a British band is widely credited with launching the British Invasion and transforming American pop culture?

Question 3: At which festival and in what year did Bob Dylan plug in an electric guitar, stunning folk purists and marking a turning point for rock and singer-songwriter music?

Question 4: When MTV debuted on August 1, 1981, what was the very first music video it aired, a cheeky choice that symbolized the coming era of video-driven pop?

Question 5: Which album toppled Michael Jackson’s Dangerous from No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in January 1992, heralding grunge’s mainstream breakthrough?


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