GeoTracks Music
GeoTracks Music · October 13, 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 round'Down Under' reached No. 1 in the US and UK in 1983. The band that recorded it formed in this city.
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📍 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · map
A court later ruled that its flute part copied the children's song 'Kookaburra'. The band had to pay 5% of royalties from 2002.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Studio built by ABBA members where Led Zeppelin recorded In Through the Out Door.
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📍 Polar Studios, Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden · map
It opened in 1978 inside a former cinema. The Ramones, Genesis and Rammstein also recorded there before it closed in 2004.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
In April 1990 Paul McCartney played to about 184,000 people in this stadium, then a world record.
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📍 Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · map
McCartney later said the real crowd was probably bigger, because about 5,000 more people were behind the stage.
Source: beatlesbible.com
On this day in 1941, singer-songwriter Paul Simon was born in this city.
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📍 Newark, New Jersey, USA · map
In 1945 his family moved to Queens, New York, where he met Art Garfunkel at elementary school.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The Mariposa Folk Festival started in 1961 in a lakeside town, which is also Gordon Lightfoot's hometown. Which town?
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📍 Tudhope Park, Orillia, Ontario, Canada · map
The festival moved to several other places, then came back to Orillia in 2000. A 4-metre statue of Lightfoot stands in the town.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
On this day in 1966, the Jimi Hendrix Experience played its very first concert in this town.
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📍 The Novelty, Évreux, France · map
The new trio was the opening act for French rock star Johnny Hallyday on a short tour of France.
Source: en.wikipedia.org