GeoTracks Music
GeoTracks Music · October 10, 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 roundStadium where Queen played a 21-minute set at Live Aid on 13 July 1985.
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📍 Wembley Stadium, London, England · map
About 72,000 people were at the stadium. In a 2005 industry poll, Queen's set was voted the greatest live performance in rock history.
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Festival held in Roman temple ruins where Fairuz gave her first big concert in 1957.
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📍 Baalbek (Roman temples), Lebanon · map
Fairuz was paid one Lebanese pound for the 1957 show. The president gave her a medal for artistic achievement.
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In 1968, George Harrison recorded the backing track for 'The Inner Light' here with Indian musicians.
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📍 HMV (EMI) studio, Bombay (Mumbai), India · map
It is the only Beatles studio recording made outside Europe. It was the B-side of 'Lady Madonna'.
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Macklemore's 'Thrift Shop' reached No. 1 with no major label. Its video was filmed in thrift stores in his home city.
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📍 Seattle, Washington, USA · map
It was only the second independent song to reach No. 1 on the Hot 100, almost 20 years after Lisa Loeb's 'Stay'.
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On this day in 1917, jazz pianist Thelonious Monk was born in this town.
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📍 Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA · map
Monk left as a small child: in 1922 his family moved to the San Juan Hill area of Manhattan, where he learned to play.
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On this day in 1971, the famous concert pianist Evgeny Kissin was born in this city.
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📍 Moscow, Russia · map
Kissin was a child prodigy. At age 12 he played both Chopin piano concertos in one concert in his home city.
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