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Mamma Mia

The note A or La notated as a symbol on a treble clef staff.
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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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