The best songs ever?
Writing for the Telegraph, Neil McCormick picked his best 100 songs of all time last week. Here’s his top ten - heavily weighted towards recordings before 1980:
1 Life On Mars David
Bowie (1971)
2 Let It Be The Beatles (1970)
3 Tangled Up In Blue Bob Dylan (1975)
4 Unchained Melody
Alex North & Hy Zaret (1955)/The Righteous Brothers (1965)
5 Lola The Kinks (1970)
6 Redemption Song Bob Marley (1979)
7 Saint James
Infirmary Louis Armstrong (1928)
8 Somewhere Over The Rainbow Judy
Garland (1939)
9 I’ve Got You Under My Skin Cole Porter (1956)
10 Everybody Hurts REM (1993)