Questions Eighties Music Quiz

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An eighties round for people who know their bands as well as their singles. Midge Ure's solo chart-topper, the lead singer of the Pet Shop Boys, and which band Mark King fronts.

Toto, Wham, Dire Straits and one of 1985's biggest sellers all get a mention.

  1. Who topped the UK Charts with 'If I Was' in 1985?
  2. Which popular 80s song begins with the lyrics, 'I hear the drums echoing tonight'?
  3. Who is the lead singer of the Pet Shop Boys?
  4. What is the opening line to 'Club Tropicana' by Wham?
  5. Which rock band released an album called 'Brothers In Arms'?
  6. Which female artist had one of the best-selling UK singles of 1985 with 'The Power of Love'?
  7. Mark King is the lead singer of which English band?
  8. Which song by The Human League includes the lyrics 'You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar?'
  9. What is the opening line to 'Our House' by Madness?
  10. Which country does the famous singer 'Billy Ocean' come from?
  11. Which rock band released an album called Saints and Sinners in 1982 which included a hit song called 'Here I Go Again'?
  12. What is the title of the song that earned Whitney Houston the best-selling US single of 1987?
  13. Which male artist sang the lyrics, 'How can you leave me standing? Alone in a world that's so cold'?
  14. Who sang 'Islands In The Stream' with Kenny Rogers?
  15. What was the title of Bon Jovi's best-selling US album of 1987?
  16. Which Irish rock band sang the lyrics, 'And when I go there, I go there with you, it's all I can do'?
  17. Which British boy band released a song in 1988 called 'The Harder I Try'?
  18. Which American pop group abbreviated their name to NKOTB?
  19. Who is the lead singer of the rock band Def Leppard?
  20. Complete the missing line from the well-known lyrics by Bon Jovi, 'Tommy used to work on the docks, ...'