1 – “Eleanor Rigby”
2 – “Strawberry Fields Forever”
3 – “Hey Jude”
4 – “Yesterday”
5 – “Come Together”
6 – “Helter Skelter”
7 – “In My Life”
8 – “Yellow Submarine”
9 – “All You Need is Love”
10 – “Let It Be”
According to Blast Magazine
Led ZeppelinAccording to The Daily Dust…
1. John Paul Jones – Led Zeppelin
2. Geezer Butler – Black Sabbath
3. Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel – The Band
4. John Entwistle – The Who
5. George Harrison - The Beatles
6. Ray Manzarek – The Doors
7. Michael Anthony - Van Halen
8. Tina Weymouth - Talking Heads
9. Vinnie Paul – Pantera
10. Jason Newsted – Metallica
1 The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
2 The Beatles
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
3 Kraftwerk
Trans-Europe Express (1977)
4 NWA
Straight Outta Compton (1989)
5 Robert Johnson
King of the Delta Blues Singers (1961)
6 Marvin Gaye
What’s Going On (1971)
7 Patti Smith
Horses (1975)
8 Bob Dylan
Bringing it All Back Home (1965)
9 Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley (1956)
10 The Beach Boys
Pet Sounds (1966)
1. Richie Valens – airplane crash
2. John Lennon – murdered
3. Jimi Hendrix – drug overdose, combined with alcohol
4. Kurt Cobain – suicide
5. Janis Joplin – drug overdose
6. Tupac Shakur – murdered
7. Selena - murdered
8. Karen Carpenter - anorexia
9. Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers – motorcycle accident and one year later, Berry Oakley of the same band suffers the same cause of death
10. Bon Scott of AC/DC – alcohol overdose
According to Purna Bhattacharya, TenMojo.com
11. Cliff Burton of Metallica – car accident
12. Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys – drowned
13. Christa Paffgen of Velvet Underground – cerebral hemorrhage
14. Freddy Mercury of Queen – AIDS
15. Keith Godchaux of the Grateful Dead – car accident
16. Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones – drowned
17. John Bonham of Led Zepplin – alcohol overdose
18. Aaliyah – airplane crash
19. Michael Hutchence of INXS – suicide
20. “Left Eye” of TLC – car accident
According to Purna Bhattacharya, TenMojo.com
According to the British music magazine Mojo and a panel of 20 songwriting legends, including Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson, Jerry Leiber and Hal David, these are the Top 10 Songs of All Time.
1. In My Life — The Beatles
2. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction — Rolling Stones
3. Over The Rainbow — Judy Garland
4. Here, There And Everywhere — The Beatles
5. Tracks of My Tears — The Miracles
6. The Times, They Are A-Changing — Bob Dylan
7. Strange Fruit — Billie Holliday
8. I Can’t Make You Love Me — Bonnie Raitt
9. People Get Ready — The Impressions
10. You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ — The Righteous Brothers
According to Time Magazine, these were the Top 10 Best Top 10 Lists of 2002.
1. Chicago Tribune: Top 10 Trent Lott Apologies. Pulling in at No. 3: “I don’t accept those policies of the past at all… I’m the son of a sharecropper myself”
2. Fineman P.R.: Top 10 P.R. Blunders. Martha Stewart’s mess got nosed out by Abercrombie & Fitch, for its marketing of thong underwear to preteen girls, which prompted boycotts by profamily groups
3. NASCAR: Top 10 Best Paint Schemes. Proof that even motorheads try to color-coordinate. Robby Gordon’s black-and-orange Chevy was praised for “ingenious use of his sponsor’s logo”
4. New York Times: Top 10 Movies. With no fewer than four lists, one each from four critics, 28 films can say they made the Top 10. Only quadruple winner: Talk to Her
5. Tatler: Britain’s 10 Most Eligible Bachelors. The London society magazine tapped Prince Harry. His older brother William didn’t make the list because he no longer lives in the city
6. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Top 10 Celebrity Excuses. “Crack is cheap. I make too much money to use crack.” Whitney Houston, on why crack is not among the drugs she has admitted using, snagged No. 3
7. Booklist: Top 10 Science Reference Sources. The compilers pleaded there were so many contenders they had to limit the list to the 500s of the Dewey decimal system
8. Investor’s Business Daily: Top 10 News Events of 2002. Corporate scandals, at a surprisingly low No. 7, were outranked by the D.C. snipers
9. Las Vegas Review-Journal: Top 10 Shows on the Strip. Gladys Knight, at the Flamingo, edged out Blue Man Group: Live at Luxor
10. AskMen.com Top 10 Ring Tones for Your Cellular Phone. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, at No. 10, won praise because, unlike many of the standard high-pitched cell tunes, it “won’t scare the bejeezus out of you when your phone rings”
