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Bob Dylan
Blowin' In The Wind
The song that begins Dylan's first UK chart album was instrumental to the folk revival. Not bad for a 21 year old.
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A Day In The Life
The Beatles
A New England
Kirsty MacColl
Addicted To Love
Robert Palmer
All Along The Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix
Alone Again (Naturally)
Gilbert O' Sullivan
American Pie
Don McLean
Angels
Robbie Williams
Annie's Song
John Denver
A Whiter Shade Of Pale
Procol Harum
Back To Life
Soul II Soul
Baker Street
Gerry Rafferty
Band On The Run
Paul McCartney & Wings
Barcelona
Freddie Mercury and Monserrat Caballe
Bat Out Of Hell
Meatloaf
Beautiful
Christina Aguilera
Being Boring
Pet Shop Boys
Billie Jean
Michael Jackson
Blowin' In The Wind
Bob Dylan
Blue Monday
New Order
Bohemain Rhapsody
Queen
Born In The USA
Bruce Springsteen
Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
Brown Eyed Girl
Van Morrison
Can't Get You Out Of My Head
Kylie Minogue
Careless Whisper
George Michael
Closer To Fine
The Indigo Girls
Cold Cold Heart
Hank Williams
Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd
Common People
Pulp
Crazy
Patsy Cline
Creep
Radiohead
Cry Me A River
Julie London
Dancing Queen
Abba
Don't Dream It's Over
Crowded House
Don't look Back In Anger
Oasis
Do They Know It's Christmas?
Band Aid 20
Downtown
Petula Clark
The Drugs Don't Work
The Verve
Born in the USA
Bruce Springsteen
"What they missed was the shameful part. The guy in the song was just proud that he lived"
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Eight Miles High
The Byrds
Every Breath You Take
The Police
Everybody Hurts
REM
Everyday
Slade
(Everything I Do) I Do It For You
Bryan Adams
Fairytale Of New York
The Pogues
Feel
Robbie Williams
Fire And Rain
James Taylor
Freebird
Lynyrd Skynyrd
God Only Knows
The Beach Boys
Good Vibrations
The Beach Boys
Halfway To Paradise
Billy Fury
Hero
Mariah Carey
Heroes
David Bowie
Hey Jude
The Beatles
Home Thoughts From Abroad
Clifford T.Ward
Hotel California
The Eagles
Hound Dog
Elvis Presley
Hunting High And Low
A-Ha
I Am The Resurrection
The Stone Roses
I Can't Make You Love Me
Bonnie Raitt
I Heard It Though The Grapevine
Marvin Gaye
I Only Want To Be With You
Dusty Springfield
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
U2
I Would Do Anything For Love
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Imagine
John Lennon
I'm Not In Love
10cc
In My Life
The Beatles
In The Air Tonight
Phil Collins
It Must Be Love
Madness
In The Air Tonight
Phil Collins
"..the drums come in half way through the song, setting the template for all the Eighties drum songs after that."
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Johnny B. Goode
Chuck Berry
The Joker
Steve Miller Band
Last Christmas
Wham!
Layla
Eric Clapton
Let It Be
The Beatles
Let There Be Love
Nat King Cole
Life On Mars
David Bowie
Like A Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan
Live Forever
Oasis
London Calling
The Clash
Losing My Religion
REM
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division
Lullaby of Broadway
Doris Day
Mad About The Boy
DinahWashington
Martha's Harbour
All About Eve
Meet On The Ledge
Fairport Convention
Merry Christmas Everybody
Slade
Midnight Train To Georgia
Gladys Knight and the Pips
Miss You Nights
Cliff Richard
Move It
Cliff Richard
Mr Blue Sky
ELO
My Generation
The Who
My Sweet Lord
George Harrison
Lullaby Of Broadway
Doris Day
"the prize for Harry Warren's stubborness was an Academy Award"
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Night Fever
The Bee Gees
Nights In White Satin
Moody Blues
No Woman No Cry
Bob Marley & The Wailers
One
U2
One Sweet Day
Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey
Over The Rainbow
Eva Cassidy
Paper Plane
Status Quo
Please Please Me
The Beatles
Puppy Love
Donny Osmond
Reason To Believe
Tim Hardin
River Deep Mountain High
Ike and Tina Turner
Romeo And Juliet
Dire Straits
No Woman No Cry
Bob Marley
"First time I heard this track it was in 1975, I had just bought the Natty Dread album..."
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(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Rolling Stones
Save A Prayer
Duran Duran
Scarborough Fair
Martin Carthy
Serenata
Sarah Vaughan
She Loves You
The Beatles
Shipbuilding
Elvis Costello
(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
Otis Redding
Sleigh Ride
The Ronettes
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nirvana
Something
The Beatles
Space Oddity
David Bowie
Stairway to Heaven
Led Zepplin
Stand By Me
Ben E. King
Stardust
Nat "King" Cole
Stormy Weather
Harold Arlen
Strange Fruit
Billie Holiday
Strawberry Fields Forever
The Beatles
Streets Of London
Ralph McTell
Summer Of 69
Bryan Adams
Superstition
Stevie Wonder
Surf's Up
Beach Boys
Suspicious Minds
Elvis Presley
Teenage Kicks
The Undertones
That's Alright
Evlis Presley
That's Entertainment
The Jam
The Same Old Rock
Roy Harper
This Charming Man
The Smiths
Thriller
Michael Jackson
Thunder Road
Bruce Springsteen
Tracks of My Tears
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
True
Spandau Ballet
Unfinished Sympathy
Massive Attack
Space Oddity
David Bowie
"he was under pressure to come up with something commercial"
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Walk On By
Dionne Warwick
Walk On The Wild Side
Lou Reed
Wanted Dead Or Alive
Bon Jovi
Waterloo
Abba
Waterloo Sunset
The Kinks
West End Girls
Pet Shop Boys
When You Say Nothing At All
Ronan Keating
White Christmas
Bing Crosby
Who Knows Where The Time Goes
Fairport Convention
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
Witchita Lineman
Glen Campbell
With Or Without You
U2
Without You
Nilsson
Wonderful Christmastime
Paul McCartney
Wonderwall
Oasis
Wuthering Heights
Kate Bush
Yesterday
The Beatles
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
Dusty Springfield
You Really Got Me
The Kinks
Your Song
Elton John
That's Entertainment
Paul Weller
"it's beautiful and it's intense and it's quite scary"
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