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Team pop trivia
By GINA VIVINETTO, Times Pop Music Critic
© St. Petersburg Times
published December 26, 2002
This week's winner: Molly Merritt of St. Petersburg knew that the classic piece of American literature the late folk singer Phil Ochs set to music on his first album was The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe. (For those of you who answered The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes, Team Pop specified an American work. Noyes, mates, was British.)
This week's question: Team Pop mourns the loss of Joe Strummer of the Clash, who died this week of a heart attack. Fusing politics with punk rage, the Clash did much to foster racial harmony in merry old England in the late 1970s. The band often incorporated reggae beats and dub production into its music. In 1977, CBS pulled the single Complete Control from the band's debut album because it was controversial. The Clash went on to record it and several other tunes with a famed Jamaican producer. To enter your name in the random drawing for the Weekend T-shirt, tell us the name of the producer.
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Fax entries to Team Pop Trivia, (727) 892-2327, send e-mail to gina@sptimes.com
or send your entry in an envelope as our ancestors used to: Team Pop Trivia, c/o Weekend, St. Petersburg Times, P.O. Box 1121, St. Petersburg, FL 33731. All mailed entries must be postmarked by Friday (the day after we ask the question). Faxes and e-mail can come as late as Monday morning. Please include your full name, address, phone number, and the size T-shirt your body requires.
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