Ask your partner about any of the following artist and band names (or just the underlined part if there is one) that you don’t know the English meaning of. Can either of you guess?
The Rolling Stones Lady Gaga
Blur Oasis
The Beatles Black Sabbath
Eminem Garbage
Genesis Led Zeppelin (= lead zeppelin)
Nirvana R.E.M
Talking Heads Arctic Monkeys
Backstreet Boys Klaxons
Muse Pixies
Slash Sting
White Stripes AC/DC
Chubby Checker Boomtown Rats
Dire Straits Fallout Boy
Interpol Manic Street Preachers
Meat Loaf The Prodigy
Pulp Supertramp
Wham! Black Eyed Peas
Usher Snoop Dogg
Ludacris (= ludicrous) Scouting for Girls
All Saints Posh Spice
Limp Bizkit (= limp biscuit) Shaggy
Hear’Say (= hearsay) Atomic Kitten
Busted Stereophonics
Take That Dizzee Rascal (= dizzy rascal)
New Kids on the Block Vanilla Ice
The Clash Enigma
Puff Daddy Cornershop (= corner shop)
B*Witched (= bewitched) Flying Pickets
Fairground Attraction
Ask your teacher about any meaning you didn’t know.
Discuss your opinions of the music above and describe any music which your partner doesn’t know.
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