Virgin poll reveals Lennon's Imagine as best-ever single

by Mike Diver [Edit this content] ▾ 18 comments 12:39 January 3rd, 2006

Virgin Radio recently polled some 7,000 of its listeners to discover their favourite single of all time. That's, like, ever. The winner: John Lennon's 'Imagine'.

Shoved into second and third places were 'Hey Jude' and 'Let It Be', which of course involved Lennon in some way, too.

The top ten goes like this:

1: John Lennon 'Imagine'
2: The Beatles 'Hey Jude'
3: The Beatles 'Let It Be'
4: U2 'One'
5: Robbie Williams 'Angels'
6: Queen 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
7: Led Zeppelin 'Stairway To Heaven'
8: The Police 'Every Breath You Take'
9: The Eagles 'Hotel California'
10: James fucking cunting Blunt 'You're Beautiful'

Y'see, I was always of the thinking that 'Stairway...' was never released as a single. But, I suppose I'm wrong, just like all the Virgin Radio listeners that somehow voted for Blunt to be way up there. Anyway, overall The Beatles appear 33 times (there's a list of 500 in all), The Rolling Stones 17 times, U2 15 times and Queen 14 times. Bravo.

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I think that James Blunt song is really good

and deserves to be voted the 10th best single of all time.

colonol_k | 3 Jan '06, 12:46 | X | Reply

why?

why not 1st??/

-Raz- @colonol_k | 3 Jan '06, 12:49 | X | Reply

What a

thoroughly predictable list.YAWN.

day-vid @-Raz- | 3 Jan '06, 12:54 | X | Reply

Imagine

is number one? PUKE.

What a crock of shit.

sarkyfox @-Raz- | 3 Jan '06, 12:55 | X | Reply

Some people just deserve to die

Notably, the listeners of Virgin Radio. Why don't they just exhume him and suck his cock? we all know that they're begging for it.

The_Dave @sarkyfox | 3 Jan '06, 12:59 | X | Reply

worst list EVER

i hate virgin radion, but i love the beatles, yet their listeners manage to choose possibly the two worst beatles songs of all time to be there. shocking! the same goes with lennon, so many of his songs were better than imagine. i don't think comment on james blunt is really needed - fuck right off

JFS0197 | 3 Jan '06, 13:06 | X | Reply

fucks right off

(to lunch)

Mike_Diver @JFS0197 | 3 Jan '06, 13:10 | X | Reply

shakes head

this country...

Napoleon | 3 Jan '06, 14:02 | X | Reply

Stairway to Heaven

wasn't released as a single but I think Virgin radio just said it was a top 500, not that it was top 500 singles. Virgin listeners were never going to pick anything too interesting but theres no need for Blunt.

Still, at least the JCB song wasn't there.

lucybaps | 3 Jan '06, 15:44 | X | Reply

i barely

care enough to post this.
really. who gives a shit?

fishplums | 3 Jan '06, 16:21 | X | Reply

where the fuck

is rolf harris?

shucks @fishplums | 3 Jan '06, 20:27 | X | Reply

Too right

I really *hate* Hey Jude and Let it Be.. and Imagine is totally overrated too. There are so so many better Beatles / Lennon songs... sigh. Still.. I guess its the market they were appealing to... if they'd asked the same question to Evening Session listeners, or Xfm listeners, the result would have been very different (although I'm sure Smells Like Teen Spirit would have been in there and there are way too many better Nirvana songs for that to get a place) - it was just predictable.

captainpolaroid @JFS0197 | 4 Jan '06, 01:17 | X | Reply