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A return to five questions today.
One
Clocks by Coldplay features a type of fruit and a creature in the lyrics of the first verse. What fruit and what creature?
Two
In song lyrics from 2007 what business does the singer admit visiting despite declaring themselves not to be any of the following: ‘clean, pristine, queen or machine’? Secondly, what is the song?
Three
Complete this lyric from John Newton’s hymn:
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound
That saved . . .”?
Additionally, what trade (now abhorred) had Newton been involved with?
Four
What Paul Simon song includes a reference to ‘Joltin Joe’? On what two albums, both released in 1968, was this song included?
Five
A 1975 song includes the following characters (not in any specific order): one who is a clown character of the 16th-century commedia dell’arte; an Italian polymath; the barber of Seville; and the Devil? What song, and who wrote it?
Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.
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