Penny Smith's Missing Link
Can you work out the missing link from these clues?
Every weekday morning from 11:00 Penny Smith plays 3 pieces that each have something in common, can you figure out the connection?
This morning’s clues were:
Katy Perry – Firework (Performed by the Lab Collective)
Beethoven – Egmont Overture (Performed by London Chamber Orchestra)****
Elvis Presley – Can’t Help Falling in Love (Performed by The Piano Guys)
Scroll down to reveal the answer.
Composers who didn’t do well in their academic life, but went on to have successful careers
Ludwig van Beethoven
The young prodigy attended a Latin grade school where most considered him to be a below average student. There were not any signs of his musical creativity. In fact, he struggled mightily with his spelling and reading. His math skills were so poor, he lamented later in life that he was a business failure because he could not master his numbers. At the age of ten, he left school and started only studying music.
Katy Perry
Katy Perry never finished her high school education, but has admitted in recent years that she could do with that extra knowledge to help survive the music industry.
"I'm kind of bummed at this stage that I didn't have a great education," she told Yahoo in 2014. "I could really use that these days."
Elvis Presley
His high school music teacher informed him, unkindly, that he just did not have any talent for singing. “I wasn’t popular in school … I failed music—only thing I ever failed.”