Let It Be anniversary quiz: The answers
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1. Local photographer Daniel Corrigan shot the band sitting on the roof of an Uptown home for the album's cover. Who owned the house?
Answer: The Stinsons' mother. Anita Stinson-Kurth is also known within the local scene as a longtime bartender at the recently closed Uptown Bar.
2. Before deciding to call the album Let It Be as a way of taunting Beatles fan Jesperson, which two of the following titles did the band consider?
Answer: Get A Soft On and Kind Of A Sewer, according to Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life.
3. Which two cover songs were featured on the single for "I Will Dare"?
Answer: Hank Williams' "Hey Good Lookin'" and T. Rex's "20th Century Boy"
4. R.E.M.'s Peter Buck was a good friend of the band and even played the guitar solo on "I Will Dare." During one visit to Minneapolis, Buck and Westerberg nearly got into a fight with customers in which Northeast restaurant?
Answer: White Castle. Writer P.D. Larson recounted the story in Jim Walsh's The Replacements: All Over But The Shouting. The argument started after the other customers noticed that the musicians were wearing makeup (applied by female fans at First Avenue that night).
5. The band derided "phony rock 'n' roll" in the anti-MTV "Seen Your Video." The video for which later track further mocked the medium with a single shot of a speaker?
Answer: "Bastards Of Young" (see it here)
6. Before reviewing the album, Rolling Stone contacted Jesperson to confirm what?
Answer: The lyrics to "Unsatisfied." According to Gina Arnold's Route 666: On The Road To Nirvana, the magazine needed to verify the line that follows "everything you dream of is right in front of you," which is "and liberty is a lie."
7. In his review of the album, The Village Voice's Robert Christgau wrote, "Bands like this don't have roots, or principles either, they just have —"
Answer: "stuff they like."
8. The Shit Hits The Fans, a bootleg tape that was subsequently released by Twin/Tone, was recorded in what city during the band's 1984 tour?
Answer: Oklahoma City. While the label maintains that the tape was confiscated from a fan, Ross Shoemaker—who worked at the club, the Bowery—claimed in Walsh's book that he asked the band for permission to record the show and didn't know what happened to the missing tape until Twin/Tone released it.
9. Which indie-rocker wrote about Let It Be for the album-based 33 1/3 book series?
Answer: The Decemberists' Colin Meloy
10. As of 2007, about how many copies of Let It Be had Twin/Tone sold?
Answer: 250,000
