A music quiz this time. Here are 10 extracts from the lyrics of songs released over the past 50 years. There are 2 each from each decade from the sixties to the noughties, in chronological order. Just name the song, artist and if you’re really clever the year of release!
- Q. “I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth”
- Q. “Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come”
- Q. “Took all the trees and put ‘em in a tree museum and charged the people a dollar and a half just to see ‘em”
- Q. “Sup up your beer and collect your fags, There’s a row going on down near Slough”
- Q. “Bless my cotton socks I’m in the news!”
- Q. “You can’t start a fire, you can’t start a fire without a spark, this gun’s for hire...”
- Q. “Backbeat the word was on the street that the fire in your heart is out”
- Q. “Things are getting strange, I’m starting to worry”
- Q. “What’s that coming over the hill?”
- Q. “I used to rule the world, seas would rise when I gave the word”