GeoTracks Music
GeoTracks Music · October 6, 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 roundMotown's first headquarters and studio, 'Hitsville U.S.A.', stands here.
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📍 Hitsville U.S.A., 2648 W Grand Blvd, Detroit · map
Berry Gordy bought the house in 1959 and lived upstairs. It's now the Motown Museum.
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U2 filmed the concert film 'Under a Blood Red Sky' at this natural amphitheatre in 1983.
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📍 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colorado · map
Torrential rain nearly cancelled the 5 June 1983 show. Only about 4,400 fans came, and the eerie mist made the footage iconic.
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Brothers Malcolm and Angus Young formed AC/DC in this city in 1973.
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📍 Sydney, Australia · map
The name came from 'AC/DC' printed on their sister Margaret's sewing machine.
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The 'Macarena' duo Los del Río come from this town near Seville.
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📍 Dos Hermanas, Spain · map
The Bayside Boys remix of 'Macarena' spent 14 weeks at No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1996.
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On this day in 1600, Euridice, the oldest opera whose music still survives, was first performed in this palace.
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📍 Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy · map
The composer, Jacopo Peri, sang the role of Orfeo himself at the premiere.
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On this day in 1927, The Jazz Singer, the first big film with synchronized talking and singing, premiered in this city.
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📍 Warners' Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA · map
When Al Jolson started talking on screen, the audience at the premiere 'became hysterical', according to accounts of the night.
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