Mean Mr. Mustard - Quiz
  • 1. Which band released the song 'Mean Mr. Mustard'?
A) The Beatles
B) The Who
C) The Rolling Stones
D) Led Zeppelin
  • 2. On which studio album was 'Mean Mr. Mustard' released?
A) White Album
B) Abbey Road
C) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
D) Let It Be
  • 3. In what year was the album Abbey Road released?
A) 1969
B) 1968
C) 1967
D) 1970
  • 4. Who wrote the song 'Mean Mr. Mustard'?
A) George Harrison
B) Paul McCartney
C) Ringo Starr
D) John Lennon
  • 5. What track number is 'Mean Mr. Mustard' on the album's climactic medley?
A) Fourth
B) Second
C) First
D) Third
  • 6. For which album was 'Mean Mr. Mustard' originally supposed to be recorded?
A) Rubber Soul
B) The White Album
C) Abbey Road
D) Revolver
  • 7. In what year was the White Album released?
A) 1968
B) 1967
C) 1966
D) 1969
  • 8. What alternative name was given to the medley on Abbey Road?
A) The Final Piece
B) The Long One
C) The Abbey Symphony
D) The Big Suite
  • 9. How did John Lennon view his contributions to the medley?
A) With frigidness
B) With great pride
C) As his finest work
D) With indifference
  • 10. What phrase did John Lennon use to describe 'Mean Mr. Mustard' and another medley piece?
A) The best songs of my career
B) Pure pop symphonies
C) Bits of crap I wrote in India
D) Unfinished masterpieces of rock
  • 11. When did the band record 'Mean Mr. Mustard'?
A) Late July 1969
B) Early February 1968
C) Mid September 1969
D) Late December 1968
  • 12. Which song comes directly before 'Mean Mr. Mustard' in the Long One?
A) Polythene Pam
B) Sun King
C) Maxwell's Silver Hammer
D) Her Majesty
  • 13. In which town was 'Mean Mr. Mustard' written?
A) Liverpool
B) Rishikesh
C) New Delhi
D) London
  • 14. What is Rishikesh known as for Hindus?
A) A pilgrimage town
B) An industrial hub
C) A coastal resort
D) A capital city
  • 15. Why did the Beatles travel to Rishikesh in February 1968?
A) To shoot a film
B) To go on a vacation
C) To practice Transcendental Meditation
D) To record an album
  • 16. Whose monastery did the Beatles stay at in Rishikesh?
A) The Dalai Lama's
B) Mahatma Gandhi's
C) Maharashi Mahesh Yogi's
D) Swami Vivekananda's
  • 17. What inspired John Lennon to write 'Mean Mr. Mustard'?
A) A newspaper story about a miser
B) A childhood memory in Liverpool
C) A book about a sailor
D) A dream he had in India
  • 18. What was the headline of the newspaper article from the Daily Record on 7 June 1967?
A) The Miser of Enfield
B) The Man with the 10-Shilling Note
C) A Mean Husband Shaved in the Dark
D) Hiding Cash in London
  • 19. What was the name of the man featured in the Daily Record article?
A) William Mustard
B) John Mustard
C) Mean Mr. Mustard
D) Arthur Mustard
  • 20. Where did the man featured in the newspaper article live?
A) Liverpool, England
B) Manchester, England
C) Rishikesh, India
D) Enfield, London
  • 21. In what interview did Lennon discuss hiding £5 notes?
A) 1980 Playboy interview
B) 1969 Rolling Stone interview
C) 1974 NME interview
D) 1971 Melody Maker interview
  • 22. What substance did Lennon clarify the song had nothing to do with?
A) Cocaine
B) Marijuana
C) Heroin
D) LSD
  • 23. What was the companion song to 'Mean Mr. Mustard' mentioned by Lennon?
A) Maxwell's Silver Hammer
B) Sun King
C) Polythene Pam
D) Golden Slumbers
  • 24. How did Lennon introduce 'Mean Mr. Mustard' in the Playboy interview?
A) As a piece of garbage
B) As a brilliant rock song
C) As an unfinished joke
D) As a pop masterpiece
  • 25. What did Paul McCartney want Abbey Road to be?
A) A live concert recording
B) A pop symphony/opera
C) A pure rock and roll album
D) A collection of folk tunes
  • 26. How was the Abbey Road album split?
A) Two ways
B) Three ways
C) Four ways
D) It was not split
  • 27. What did the first side of Abbey Road contain?
A) Individual songs
B) Only acoustic tracks
C) A sixteen-minute medley
D) Live recordings
  • 28. What did most of the second side of Abbey Road contain?
A) A continuous acoustic set
B) Individual pop hits
C) Instrumental jams
D) A sixteen-minute medley
  • 29. Whose idea was the medley on Abbey Road?
A) George Martin's
B) Lennon's
C) McCartney's
D) Harrison's
  • 30. Who claimed a share of credit in the creation of the medley wanting the group to think symphonically?
A) Neil Aspinall
B) Chris Ingham
C) Hunter Davies
D) George Martin
  • 31. What did George Martin advise the group to do musically?
A) Keep it simple
B) Play faster rock
C) Focus on acoustic guitars
D) Think symphonically
  • 32. How are the medley's short songs connected?
A) By being recorded live together
B) By spoken word introductions
C) By random chance
D) By thematic or tonal coherence
  • 33. How does Beatles biographer Hunter Davies coldly describe the medley?
A) As a long string of unfinished scraps
B) As the finest work of the 1960s
C) As a brilliant symphonic masterpiece
D) As a revolutionary rock opera
  • 34. What did Neil Aspinall suggest that prompted Lennon to snap back?
A) A world tour after the album
B) A reprise of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
C) An acoustic version of Mustard
D) A longer medley on Abbey Road
  • 35. What was Lennon's response to Neil Aspinall's suggestion about Sgt. Pepper?
A) Ask Paul instead
B) No one likes a smart-arse, Neil
C) Let us do it tomorrow
D) That is a brilliant idea
  • 36. How did Lennon describe how his three contributions to the medley were arranged?
A) Carefully planned out over months
B) Played in exact chronological order
C) Juggled about until it made vague sense
D) Arranged by George Martin in a studio
  • 37. What did author Chris Ingham say Lennon would have considered his three medley contributions?
A) Garbage
B) Deep poetry
C) Pop classics
D) Masterpieces
  • 38. What do some critics hold about the three Lennon numbers in the medley?
A) They are the best songs on the album
B) They should have been released as singles
C) They ruined the entire record
D) They are the medley's weakest patch
  • 39. Despite some criticisms, what does Chris Ingham think of the Lennon numbers?
A) They are hugely entertaining musically
B) They lack any character
C) They are boring and repetitive
D) They are too experimental
  • 40. Which author praises Polythene Pam's wicked humor?
A) Nicholas Schaffner
B) Hunter Davies
C) Ian Womack
D) Mark Hertsgaard
  • 41. Which publication agrees that Lennon contributed some of the medley's most eccentric parts?
A) Melody Maker
B) Playboy
C) Rolling Stone
D) Daily Record
  • 42. Who is the author that writes about the large cast of whimsical characters on Abbey Road?
A) Mark Hertsgaard
B) Nicholas Schaffner
C) Hunter Davies
D) Chris Ingham
  • 43. According to Nicholas Schaffner, what does Mean Mr. Mustard scream obscenities at?
A) His sister Pam
B) The Maharishi
C) Her Majesty
D) A police officer
  • 44. How is Mean Mr. Mustard described regarding a note in the song's lyrics according to Schaffner?
A) With a magic hammer in his hand
B) With the 10-shilling note up his nose
C) With a newspaper under his arm
D) With a £5 note in his pocket
  • 45. How is Mustard's sister Pam described by Schaffner?
A) As a transvestite resplendent in a polythene bag
B) As a queen living in London
C) As a wealthy miser hiding cash
D) As a monk meditating in India
  • 46. What was Mustard's sister named in a May 1968 demo?
A) Shirley
B) Daisy
C) Mary
D) Pam
  • 47. Why did Lennon change Mustard's sister's name from Shirley to Pam?
A) Because he preferred the name Pam
B) Based on a real person in India
C) To make it sound like it had something to do with Polythene Pam
D) At the request of Paul McCartney
  • 48. How did Lennon want to record his medley songs?
A) Over several months in different studios
B) At one go, without interruption
C) Separately as individual singles
D) Acoustically with a live audience
  • 49. Who writes that recording the medley songs at one go served the purposes of the musical suite and unfolding character studies?
A) Ingham
B) Davies
C) Womack
D) Schaffner
  • 50. Who told sound engineer John Kurlander to scrap 'Her Majesty'?
A) Ringo Starr
B) George Harrison
C) John Lennon
D) Paul McCartney
  • 51. What chord does 'Pam' open with that is also common to 'Mustard'?
A) A D major chord
B) A G major chord
C) A C major chord
D) An E major chord
  • 52. What key is 'Mustard' written in?
A) E major
B) G major
C) A major
D) D major
  • 53. What time signature is 'Mustard' in throughout?
A) 44 time
B) 128 time
C) 68 time
D) 34 time
  • 54. What does 'Pam' rely on to form a cadence?
A) The dominant
B) The tonic
C) A flat seventh chord
D) The subdominant
  • 55. How many days after the UK release was 'Mustard' released in the US?
A) One month later
B) Two weeks later
C) Ten days later
D) Five days later
  • 56. What did The Age review call 'Mustard' a month after its release?
A) A courageous masterpiece
B) An incredible reinvention
C) A derisive ditty
D) A mid-tempo beater
  • 57. Who described 'Mustard' as 'a mid-tempo beater with more in the words than in the music'?
A) Paul McGuinness
B) Alan Smith
C) John Kurlander
D) Booker T. Jones
  • 58. Which band covered 'Mean Mr. Mustard' on their 1970 album McLemore Avenue?
A) Cornershop
B) The Who
C) The Rolling Stones
D) Booker T. & the M.G.'s
  • 59. Who conceived the mostly instrumental reinvention of Abbey Road on McLemore Avenue?
A) John Kurlander
B) Booker T. Jones
C) Paul McGuinness
D) Alan Smith
  • 60. Which indie rock band featured 'Mustard' in a medley with 'Polythene Pam' on Abbey Road Now!?
A) The Kinfauns
B) Cornershop
C) The Beatles
D) Booker T. & the M.G.'s
  • 61. Who chose Cornershop's recording as the best cover of both 'Mustard' and 'Pam'?
A) Paul McGuinness
B) Booker T. Jones
C) Alan Smith
D) John Kurlander
  • 62. Which instruments did Ringo Starr play on the track according to the personnel list?
A) Rhythm guitar and piano
B) Lead guitar and tambourine
C) Drums, tambourine, and maracas
D) Fuzz bass and harmony vocals
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