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How well do you know 1980s music? Youtube/Rick Astley
Let's Get Quizzical

Quiz: Can you finish these 80's song lyrics?

Never gonna give (you) up.
9.46pm, 29 Mar 2020
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JOHNNY LOGAN, KATE Bush and Boy George – who’d want more than that?

The 1980s – was there ever a better time for music? (Maybe don’t answer that). 

Either way, there were tunes aplenty during that decade – how well do you remember them?

Can you finish off these lyrics?

Good luck.

Starting the decade and starting the quiz: What's another year to someone who's lost everything that he owns? What's another year....
Eurovision/Youtube
To someone who has bought a new home
To someone who's getting used to being alone

To me
To a king without a throne
Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you....
Rick Astley/Youtube
Cook
Tell a lie

Say goodbye
Down
Karma karma karma karma
Culture Club/Youtube
Karma chameleon
Karma karma chameleon

Chameleon
Karma karma karma karma karma
Papa don't preach, I'm in trouble, deep, papa don't preach....
Madonna/Youtube
I've been missing sleep
I've been losing sleep

I just want to sleep
Because you're not a priest
Clock strikes upon the hour, and the sun begins to fade, still enough time to figure out....
Whitney Houston/Youtube
How to dance the night away
How to push my blues away

How to chase my blues away
How to chase the light of day
So I broke into the palace, with a sponge and a rusty....
TheSmiths
Corkscrew
Sword

Hammer
Spanner
The lady in red is dancing with me...
Chris De Burgh/Youtube
Cheek to cheek
There's nobody here

It's just you and me
It's where I want to be
Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town?
The Specials/Youtube
We danced and sang and the music played in a de boomtown
All the clubs have been closed down

This place, is becoming like a ghost town
We sang and danced and the music played in a de boomtown
Take my shoes off and throw them in the lake and I'll be
Kate Bush/Youtube
Three steps in the water
Shoeless

Two steps off the water
Two steps on the water
Banana Republic...
Boomtown Rats/Youtube
Septic isle
Sceptred isle

Septic Ireland
Stupid isle
Answer all the questions to see your result!
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Top dog
You nailed it
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Clever cat
Almost purrfect.
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You scored out of !
Fintastic
Fintastic
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What are ewe doing?
Baaaaaaaad
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Turtely awful
A shell of a bad effort
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