Classic Rock: Guess the Song
Twenty legendary anthems from the golden age of guitar heroes, from the mid-60s to the end of the 70s. One short clip each: do you know who's playing, and what it's called?
About this quiz
Between the mid-1960s and the end of the 1970s, rock grew from three-minute singles into stadium-sized anthems, and the songs of that era still fill classic rock radio today. This quiz plays a 30-second clip from twenty of them, from bands and singers on both sides of the Atlantic.
Each clip has two boxes under it, one for the artist and one for the song title, and each box is worth a point. Common short forms are accepted, like a band's name without "The". Once the quiz is over every song shows its cover, the year it came out with its album, and a link to it on Apple Music.
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