DYLAN’S ROLLING STONE BEATS ROLLING STONES’ SATISFACTION IN HITS POLL
BOB DYLAN’s 1965 hit LIKE A ROLLING STONE has topped a new list of the Gr eatest Songs of All Time.
Rolling Stone magazine editors and contributors have spent months pieci ng together the ultimate top 500 list and Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited tr ack has beaten out The Rolling Stones’ (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction to t he number one spot.
John Lennon’s Imagine comes in at three, while What’s Going On by Marvi n Gaye and Aretha Franklin’s 1967 anthem Respect round out the top five.
Also making the top 10 are Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys, Chuck Ber ry’s Johnny B. Goode, The Beatles’ Hey Jude and Smells Like Teen Spirit b y Nirvana.
The 1960s were the best decade for hits, with 195 tunes making the top 500; the 1970s came in second with 131 entries. The best year was 1965.
The Beatles and The Rolling Stones lead the artists of the poll - the F ab Four have 23 entries on the list; the Stones have 14. Bob Dylan comes in third with 13 and Elvis is the only other artist with double figures, with 11.
The extensive panel of voters included Pearl Jam star Jeff Ament, Deven dra Banhart, punk icon Jello Biafra, Mary J. Blige, Jack Bruce, Coldplay star Will Champion, Yoko Ono, Jakob Dylan and My Chemical Romance frontma n Gerard Way.
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