GeoTracks Music
GeoTracks Music · October 11, 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 roundSince 2005 this seaside park has hosted Primavera Sound, a festival that began in 2001.
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📍 Parc del Fòrum, Barcelona, Spain · map
The first Primavera Sound in 2001 sold only 7,700 tickets. In 2019 it became the first major festival with a gender-equal lineup.
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The Beatles played this martial-arts arena in 1966.
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📍 Nippon Budokan, Tokyo · map
Cheap Trick's 1978 live album 'At Budokan' made the arena famous in the West.
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Port city where Manu Dibango was born. His song Soul Makossa reached the US Hot 100 in 1973.
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📍 Douala, Cameroon · map
Soul Makossa reached No. 35 in the US. Michael Jackson later used its famous chant in Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'.
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On this day in 1919, jazz drummer Art Blakey, leader of the Jazz Messengers, was born in this city.
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📍 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA · map
Blakey led the Jazz Messengers for more than 30 years. The band helped start the careers of many young jazz stars.
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The Rolling Stones recorded much of 'Goats Head Soup' (1973) at the Dynamic Sounds studio in this city.
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📍 Dynamic Sounds, Bell Road, Kingston, Jamaica · map
Keith Richards said they went there because it was one of the few countries that would let the whole band in.
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On this day in 1951, French pop star Jean-Jacques Goldman was born in this city.
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📍 Paris, France · map
Goldman also wrote big hits for other singers, including Céline Dion's French-language album D'eux.
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