GeoTracks Music
GeoTracks Music · October 7, 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 roundOn the cover of Drake's album 'Views' (13 weeks at No. 1 in the US), he sits on top of this tower.
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📍 CN Tower, Toronto, Ontario, Canada · map
The cover image was edited: Drake looks much bigger than a real person would next to the tower.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Paul Simon recorded the drum group Olodum live in this historic old-town square for 'The Obvious Child'.
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📍 Largo do Pelourinho, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil · map
Simon brought an eight-track machine from Rio, and microphones were hung from windows and telephone poles.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The 'Big Dome' arena hosted a famous 1975 boxing match and is a top venue for Filipino pop concerts.
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📍 Araneta Coliseum, Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines · map
Regine Velasquez's R2K concert in 2000 had more than 37,000 people, the most ever for a concert here.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
On this day in 1955, cellist Yo-Yo Ma was born to Chinese parents in this city.
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📍 Paris, France · map
Yo-Yo Ma was a child prodigy. He started learning the cello from his father at age four.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Desert oasis in the Sahara where Robert Plant played the Festival in the Desert in 2003.
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📍 Essakane, Mali · map
The Tuareg music festival took place at Essakane, about 65 km from Timbuktu, from 2003 to 2009. It stopped in 2012 because of security problems.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
On this day in 1968, Radiohead singer Thom Yorke was born in this English town.
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📍 Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England · map
Radiohead later formed in Abingdon, near Oxford, where Yorke met his bandmates at school.
Source: en.wikipedia.org