GeoTracks Music
GeoTracks Music · October 9, 2026
The daily music geography game: five clues about where music history happened. Try them yourself first, then reveal the answers.
▶ Play this round Play today's roundOn this day in 1940, John Lennon was born at a maternity hospital in this city.
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📍 Liverpool Maternity Hospital, Liverpool, England · map
Lennon was born during the Second World War. His middle name, Winston, was chosen in honour of Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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The first Big Day Out was on Australia Day 1992, and Nirvana played. Which venue hosted it?
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📍 Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, Australia · map
Violent Femmes were the headliners and Nirvana was a support act. The festival later toured Australia and ended in 2014.
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Bob Marley's home and Tuff Gong studio, now his museum, is at 56 Hope Road in this city.
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📍 Bob Marley Museum, 56 Hope Road, Kingston, Jamaica · map
Marley survived an assassination attempt at this house in 1976. Rita Marley opened it as a museum in 1986.
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Birthplace of Rema, whose Calm Down was the first African artist-led song to hit 1 billion Spotify streams.
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📍 Benin City, Nigeria · map
The remix with Selena Gomez reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. That is the highest chart place ever for an Afrobeats lead artist.
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Aretha Franklin cut 'I Never Loved a Man' at FAME Studios in this small Alabama town.
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📍 FAME Studios, Muscle Shoals, Alabama · map
It was her only FAME session. After a studio fight, the album moved to New York, where 'Respect' was cut.
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On this day in 1986, The Phantom of the Opera officially opened at this West End theatre.
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📍 Her Majesty's Theatre, London, England · map
Previews began on 27 September 1986. The show ran at this theatre for more than 35 years.
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