GeoTracks Music
GeoTracks Music · October 14, 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 roundPrince filmed the concert scenes of 'Purple Rain' (1984) inside this nightclub.
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📍 First Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA · map
More than 400 stars are painted on the club's outside wall. Prince's star was painted gold after he died in 2016.
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Festival founded in 1876 that stages only Richard Wagner's operas, in a theatre he designed.
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📍 Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany · map
About 500,000 people want tickets each year, but only about 58,000 are available. The wait for tickets can be 5 to 10 years.
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City where Paul Simon spent two weeks in February 1985 recording with local musicians for Graceland.
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📍 Johannesburg, South Africa · map
The sessions were at Ovation Studios. At that time a UN cultural boycott was in place against apartheid South Africa.
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The Guess Who, formed in this city in 1958, became the first Canadian band to top the US Hot 100, with 'American Woman'.
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📍 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada · map
The song began as an improvised jam at a concert. A fan's bootleg tape helped the band remember the words.
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On this day in 1940, British rock and roll star Cliff Richard was born in this city.
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📍 Lucknow, India · map
He was born Harry Rodger Webb at King George's Hospital, when the city was part of British India.
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On this day in 1989, experimental producer Arca, who has worked with Björk and Kanye West, was born in this city.
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📍 Caracas, Venezuela · map
Her family moved to Connecticut, USA, when she was three, then returned to this city when she was nine.
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