Answer: Clement XIV At 14 years of age, Mozart was able to transcribe, completely from memory, a liturgical composition after hearing it just once. For this amazing musical feat, he was knighted and awarded the Order of the Golden Spur by Pope Clement XIV himself.
Answer: Kesha The lawsuit of Kesha v. Dr. Luke began in 2014 with Luke filing charges of defamation and breach of contract against Kesha, and Kesha and her mother countersuing for sexual harassment, emotional distress, etc. As of the beginning of 2019 the case is yet to be resolved.
Answer: Kid Rock Though Kid Rock is not from Detroit itself but nearby Romeo, Michigan, he cared enough for classical musical to help save the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from extinction when he and his Twisted Brown Trucker band performed alongside the orchestra on 12 May 2012 and helped raise a lot of money on their behalf.
Answer: Black Sabbath Ozzy Osbourne was a founding member of Black Sabbath but after 11 years of service was sacked from the group in 1979 due to drug-abuse issues.
Answer: The Catholic Church Musical notation has been around for a long time, but most ancient works utilizing such are incomprehensible. It was the Catholic Church in medieval Europe that standardized musical notation so that it can be read uniformly in different venues.
Answer: Adele With over 1.1 million copies sold during its debut week, Adele's "Hello" reigns well above the second track on the list - Flo Rida's "Right Round" - for the song to sell the most downloads in a single week.
Answer: Jamaica Don Shirley (1927-2013), who was born in Pensacola, Florida was actually the son of Jamaican immigrants to the United States. Sadly enough, despite being a musical prodigy, Shirley had to deal with racial barriers on his way to success.
Answer: George Frideric Handel The inspiration for George Frideric Handel's "Messiah" (1742) came from the King James Bible as well as the Anglican "Book of Common Prayer".
Answer: Nine Inch Nails Although he didn't think much of it when renting the place, later Nine Inch Nails' frontman Trent Reznor felt regret for renting the home where Charles Manson and his followers committed the Tate murders in 1969. The Nine Inch Nails recorded most of their 1994 album The Downward Spiral there.
