GeoTracks Music
GeoTracks Music · October 26, 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 roundCity where Liam Gallagher's band Oasis formed in 1991, before his brother Noel joined.
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📍 Manchester, England · map
The band name came from a tour poster that listed the Oasis Leisure Centre in Swindon. Their first gig was at the Boardwalk club in August 1991.
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At this 1967 pop festival in California, Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire on stage.
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📍 Monterey County Fairgrounds, Monterey, California, USA · map
Held on 16–18 June 1967, the festival also gave Janis Joplin and Otis Redding their big breakthroughs.
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A teenage Ella Fitzgerald won Amateur Night here in 1934.
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📍 Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City · map
Ella, then 17, planned to dance, but a rival dance duo scared her off. She sang 'Judy' instead and won.
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On this day in 1911, the gospel singer Mahalia Jackson was born in this city.
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📍 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA · map
She was born 'Mahala' Jackson and spent her early childhood in the city's Sixteenth Ward.
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City pop singer Mariya Takeuchi ('Plastic Love', 1985) was born in a shrine town, now part of this city.
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📍 Taisha, Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, Japan · map
Her family has run the Takenoya ryokan (a traditional inn) since 1877. She has managed it since 2018.
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On this day in 1685, the harpsichord composer Domenico Scarlatti was born in this city.
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📍 Naples, Italy · map
Scarlatti was born in 1685, the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel.
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