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Today's trivia focuses on music from the 60s. Answers are posted tonight. First correct post is today's champion. So take off your shirt, blast some Dead, and get your ass on the high town to Trivialand!

1. The Beatles' first American tour in 1964 was a music and cultural phenomenon. Which famous New York City DJ was known as the self-proclaimed "Fifth Beatle"?

2. To which classic comedy act did John Lennon once compare the American sixties TV band, The Monkees?

3. The seventies vocal trio, Crosby, Stills, and Nash were one of rock music's first "super groups." Which three sixties bands did the trio's members originally come from?

4. True or False: Cher can be heard as a session background vocalist on some early sixties recordings produced by the legendary Phil Spector.

5. Which of the following legendary musicians passed away first?

Otis Redding

Janis Joplin

Jimi Hendrix

6. Which sixties pop duo appeared on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" in 1964, playing characters based on themselves?

7. What was the name of the vocal quartet in which the three members of the Supremes first sang together?

8. Linda Ronstadt, famed seventies vocalist, had her only sixties hit with the song "Different Drum" which she recorded with her band, The Stone Ponies. Which sixties actor/singer wrote the song?

9. On which sixties TV show did Keith Moon's drum kit famously explode during an appearance by The Who?

10. Which member of The Mamas And The Papas was briefly fired from the band as punishment for having an affair with another member of the quartet?

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