Answer: Status Quo's psychedelically engineered "Pictures of Matchstick Men" hit the American Top 20. You'd immediately recognize the overly simplistic, phase-shifted guitar lick that opens the tune. Later reinventing itself as a 12-bar boogie band (think Foghat with higher-pitched vocals), Status Quo had a string of hit singles and albums in the U.K., but we paid no more attention to the group over here. They apparently had sufficient star power as late as '85 to launch Live Aid.

Foghat ... hearing that puts you right smack in the middle of the '70s, doesn't it? I saw the band headlining a double bill with the similarly of-that-era Sweet. What I remember, besides waiting around to hear Foghat do "Slow Ride," was an extremely long solo by guitarist Rod Price, during which the other players left the stage. Hey, that was part of rock shows back then. But Rod acquitted himself very well, under the circumstances.

That solo immediately came to mind when I heard of Rod's death earlier this year. Foghat's lead singer, Dave Peverett, also is deceased. As are Sweet's Brian Connolly and Mick Tucker.

RIP, guys.

Question: This isn't quite music trivia, but I like her ... in the "Wayne's World" movie, what actress belted out (lip-synched) a version of Sweet's "Ballroom Blitz"? (And has she been in anything of note lately?)