THE GREATEST OF THE GREATEST HITS
THE BEATLES: 1967-1970
If you own only one album, make it this: song for song, the greatest of all time. (Just ahead of its twin, 1962-66.)
THE ROLLING STONES: ROLLED GOLD
Satisfaction guaranteed.
CHUCK BERRY: THE GREAT TWENTY-EIGHT
The founding father whose offspring include The Beatles, the Stones and the Beach Boys.
ELVIS PRESLEY: 40 GREATEST
Definitive rock’n’roll, and some radiant ballads.
BILLIE HOLIDAY: GREATEST HITS
‘She sang,’ someone said, ‘and singing was never the same again.’
ROY ORBISON: THE VERY BEST OF
Three octaves and the truth.
EAGLES: THEIR GREATEST HITS (1971-1975)
Soft rock + hard-edged lyrics = America’s best-selling album.
MARC BOLAN AND T REX: THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION
Say what you like about the early Seventies, the teenyboppers had taste.
MADONNA: THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION
Pinpoint dance-pop from the godmother of empowerment.
PET SHOP BOYS: POPART
A dance to the music of elegiac observation.