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Musical Acts by Letter - D

Guess the musical acts that performed these songs. All the answers start with D.
Going by first names and ignoring "the"
Years active starts with their first major commercial release
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Last updated: February 19, 2020
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First submittedFebruary 2, 2013
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Years Active
Country
Song
Band or Artist
2017–
New Rules | Don't Start Now
Dua Lipa
2009–
The Motto | God's Plan
Drake
1997–2021
Get Lucky | Around the World
Daft Punk
1998–2006
Bills, Bills, Bills | Bootylicious
Destiny's Child
1992–
Nuthin' but a "G" Thang | Keep Their Heads Ringin'
Dr. Dre
1982–
The Boys of Summer | Dirty Laundry
Don Henley
1981–
Personal Jesus | People are People
Depeche Mode
1981–
Rio | Save a Prayer
Duran Duran
1980–
Pour Some Sugar on Me | Hysteria
Def Leppard
1978–1995
Sultans of Swing | Money For Nothing
Dire Straits
1974–2012
MacArthur Park | Hot Stuff
Donna Summer
1970–
American Pie | Vincent
Don McLean
1970–
Endless Love | Upside Down
Diana Ross
1968–
Smoke on the Water | Highway Star
Deep Purple
1967–1973
Light My Fire | Riders on the Storm
The Doors
1967–2016
Ziggy Stardust | Space Oddity
David Bowie
1964–1999
Son of a Preacher Man | Spooky
Dusty Springfield
1967–
I Will Always Love You | Jolene
Dolly Parton
1948–1995
That's Amore | Aint' That a Kick in the Head
Dean Martin
44 Comments
+7
Level 60
May 19, 2013
drake sucks
+12
Level 62
Jul 16, 2016
I came here 3 years later to agree with you.
+5
Level 67
Mar 2, 2020
I came here 4 years later to neither agree nor disagree
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Level 69
May 28, 2020
I used to think that but then I decided to give him a chance and he has SOME good music but is still overrated
+1
Level 31
May 14, 2022
9 years later, i agree
+2
Level 47
Sep 19, 2024
I'm here 11 years later to confidently agree with you
+1
Level 75
May 19, 2013
Only got 11 but still enjoyed it :)
+1
Level 84
Jun 22, 2014
11/12 pre-1994. 0/6 after that. Time to call the sunset squad robots.
+1
Level 85
Apr 3, 2017
Almost identical to mine. I guess I should go pack now.
+2
Level 57
Sep 30, 2015
American Pie has the most meaningful, thoughtful and brilliant lyrics ever written. No question. Tops any garbage modern day rap or pop song where they just autotune a repeated line to a computerized beat over, and over and over...
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Level 58
Nov 6, 2015
Really? The lyrics are good, yes, but as almost stream of consciousness imagery held together by the singular event of "the day the music died" I think Dylan songs like "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and "Like a Rolling Stone" are far more "thoughtful". As for "meaningful", massively subjective but many would argue a song like "Imagine" among many others might pip it.
+4
Level 83
Apr 4, 2019
Can't tell if this is sarcasm?? IMHO, American Pie is a ridiculous and overrated song and it goes on FOREVER.
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Level 43
Jun 11, 2020
You have no soul
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Level 67
May 28, 2020
Lots of modern rap has brilliant lyrics. Not the stuff topping the charts, but if you actually engage with the genre, you'll find some really good and clever stuff. Also, I love American Pie, and the lyrics are interesting and original, but they're far from the best.
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Level 68
Nov 6, 2015
I'm definitely old---I don't remember Donna Summer doing MacArthur Park. I had the RIchard Harris 45. God knows why.
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Level 75
Nov 6, 2015
Same here. I saw 1978 and thought it was a typo - it should have been 1968, but then I couldn't get a D out of Richard Harris's name, so I just went with whatever "D" names I could think of from '78. I liked both Harris' version and Waylon Jennings' country remake, but then I'm a Jimmy Webb fan. (I thought Webb's Galveston was brilliant for its era, even though Glen Campbell watered down the lyrics in his version of the anti-war song.)
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Level 28
Nov 6, 2015
Donna's version was hard to avoid. It was all over the place and made people forget about Richard Who?
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Level 75
Nov 7, 2015
I missed most of the music of the '80s. It was Barney and Sesame Street songs at our house during those years.
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Level 85
Apr 3, 2017
Both were great, IMO, but I definitely prefer Richard Harris' version.
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Level 32
May 28, 2020
She did a really good version even though it was disco. Both versions are great. Who's old? :)
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Level 70
Nov 6, 2015
What? You didn't include the band's I like which are brilliant but you did include bands I don't like which are garbage! How could you?
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Level 67
Jul 31, 2018
Add Don Henley. Had a decent solo career after the Eagles.
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Level ∞
Feb 19, 2020
Okay
+1
Level 87
Oct 11, 2018
I got 100% up through 1972 and then only one after that. And no, I was not alive in 1972.
+3
Level 83
Jan 30, 2019
Doris Day? And Depeche Mode
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Level 80
Jun 19, 2019
Let's not forget Desmond Dekker, Dave Brubeck, and Del Amitri.
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Level 86
Feb 20, 2020
Donna Summer is hard to find with those songs. Maybe I should have known No more tears, but I would never have missed her if you had put Love to love you baby, I feel love or Hot Stuff. I really don't see the point in putting lesser-known songs in such quizzes, those are meant to be clues, aren't they?
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Level ∞
Feb 20, 2020
I'm not really much of a disco fan. Changed one of the songs to Hot Stuff, which does seem to be her most popular song on Spotify.
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Level 86
Feb 20, 2020
It's precisely because I'm not a disco fan either that I asked that. Thanks anyway.
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Level 67
May 28, 2020
Hot Stuff is a big one. She Works Hard for the Money is also huge. Heaven Knows is her best one though.
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Level 72
Apr 9, 2020
I am a little bummed there's no Doobie Brothers on here. Where is the yacht rock love?
+1
Level 75
May 28, 2020
The curse of being young and not listening to popular music. I got 6.
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Level 85
May 28, 2020
I'm shocked, just shocked I tell you, that Dickie Goodman didn't make this list. His "Mr. Jaws" in the mid-70s was the "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" of pop-satirization-of-summer-blockbuster-movies.
+2
Level 51
May 28, 2020
What about Demi Lovato and Daddy Yankee?
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Level 86
May 28, 2020
I heard Johnny Cash when I read Personal Jesus. I knew it was a cover but after Johnny Cash does a song, its his.
+2
Level 67
May 28, 2020
Nope.
+1
Level 65
Oct 24, 2022
I prefer the Depeche Mode version, although it's nowhere near their best song.
+1
Level 75
May 28, 2020
Dave Clark Five? They were my best friend's favorite group and I have their songs imprinted in my brain forever - in stereo!
+1
Level 67
May 28, 2020
The forgotten British Invasion group. They had some good tunes though.
+1
Level 69
May 28, 2020
Nobody cares about dua lipa 😐
+1
Level 60
Nov 1, 2020
What? No Disturbed?
+2
Level 66
Feb 28, 2021
Daft Punk 1997 - 2021, they just broke up.
+2
Level 89
Nov 30, 2022
No DIO? Man was the definition of cool.
+1
Level 68
Jan 7, 2024
Holy Diver is great