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This month's Q list: Beatles top poll of 'Best British Song'
disnews by DiS News September 12th, 2005
The inspirationally vacant Q Magazine has again come up trumps with a fascinating list of the Best British Songs of All Time, Like FACT and Stuff...

Experts were invited to vote for their favourite British song of the last however many years, and the top ten ended up something like this:

1 The Beatles - A Day In The Life
2 The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
3 Oasis - Wonderwall
4 Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
5 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
6 The Who - My Generation
7 Robbie Williams - Angels
8 David Bowie - Life on Mars?
9 Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
10 Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

The full list of 50 songs appears in the current issue, with Franz Ferdinand on the cover, no less.



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