Since Coldfire and JohnLarrigan won’t start a new thread, and since the showdown between myself and Flypsyde in the Three Minute Mystery realm was a dismal failure, I create this thread. Go forth and trivialize.
I’ll start. What is the lead singer and visionary behind Devo (Whip it!) doing in the movie industry?
TMR
If you believed in yourself, and tore enough holes
in your pants, there was always a mist-filled alley
right around the corner.
damn. Now you have to ask a question, Trout Mask.
Hmm.
How’s this:
What character did Debbie Gibson play in The National Touring Company’s production of Grease?
TMR
If you believed in yourself, and tore enough holes
in your pants, there was always a mist-filled alley
right around the corner.
I believe she was going by the name of DEBORAH Gibson at that point, and she played Sandi. She has also played Eponine in Les Mis and Belle in Beauty and the Beast, both on Broadway.
Challenge me.
I believe “Deborah” was Rizzon in the National Touring Company’s version, wasn’t she?
–I am Soren Kierkegaard.–
“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.”
I meant “RizzO” of course… she was Sandy in another version, I think. I’ve been wrong many a time today already, however.
–I am Soren Kierkegaard.–
“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.”
Since SwimmingRiddles led off with a “where are they now” question:
What’s the URL for Thomas Dolby’s internet music venture?
“Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.” –Satchel Paige
you might be right. I know she did the touring company and broadway, I could have gotten them confused.
My source says that Ms. Gibson did indeed play Rizzo in Grease. SwimmingRiddles is right, though, about her going as Deborah nowadays. My bad. 
TMR
If you believed in yourself, and tore enough holes
in your pants, there was always a mist-filled alley
right around the corner.
TMR
If you believed in yourself, and tore enough holes
in your pants, there was always a mist-filled alley
right around the corner.
TMR’s right, though not with the answer I had in mind; as you’ll discover if you click on the link, www.headspace.com now points to the new venture, www.beatnik.com.
This is an easy one, but I can’t think of anything else at the moment:
The group After the Fire had their first and only hit with a cover of the song ‘Der Kommissar’. Name the artist who originally performed it.
TMR
If you believed in yourself, and tore enough holes
in your pants, there was always a mist-filled alley
right around the corner.
Falco. Don’t waste my time. 
I don’t make sense but I’ve got my pride
I need no meaning, I feel no shame
I won’t believe that I’ve got no choice
I’m out of control…and I love it
Falco? (Or should I say, the late Falco?)
You want pop triva? I gotcher damn trivia:
what was the name used by British pop group Madness for their first public gig?
Launcher may train without warning.
Hey, at least I didn’t ask what the first viedo ever played on MTV was. 
(For those of you who don’t know, it was ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ by the Buggles.)
Speaking of the Buggles, Trevor Horn later went on to produce this mid-Eighties one-hit wonder. The lyrics of their one hit allegedly contained references to anal sex. Name the one-hit wonder.
TMR
If you believed in yourself, and tore enough holes
in your pants, there was always a mist-filled alley
right around the corner.
Producer Mitch Easter was responsible for some of the best-known college radio albums of the 80s, including discs by R.E.M., Love Tractor, and of course his own band, Let’s Active.
Name Easter’s studio, in which many of these albums were recorded.
What song was performed by a band whose name was parodied by a thrash-metal group that featured fierce Tuba solos by Opus the penguin, in the comic strip “Bloom County”?
name the band and the show too, if you feel like it.
I don’t make sense but I’ve got my pride
I need no meaning, I feel no shame
I won’t believe that I’ve got no choice
I’m out of control…and I love it
I meant to say the band, and the 80s sitcom that launched the song.
Hmmm… Frankie Goes To Hollywood? That’s my best guess.
My best shot in the dark is… bang Billy and the Boingers?
The Sleeper has AWAKENED!