Within a few years will make a half-century, but continues to move as if it had just been published. Like a Rolling Stone, the famous song by Bob Dylan in the album Highway 61 Revisited, 1965, was elected the best song ever by the U.S. magazine Rolling Stone, the bible of rock and pop. The new ranking of 500 most important songs in musical history was compiled by 200 experts and music appear in an upcoming issue of monthly. As the site tells of the Figaro, is not the first time that Rolling Stone draws up a chart like this: in 2003 the experts of the magazine had published a similar list and now have done nothing to upgrade. However, like 7 years ago, at the top of the list are confirmed for the most songs of the sixties and seventies, who continue to hold the golden age of rock.
Like a Rolling Stone is not only an era but as a turning point in Dylan’s career. According to experts, the song continues to deserve the record because “no other song has ever challenged and transformed the commercial codes and artistic conventions of his time so deeply.” Second place went to the square Satisfaction The Rolling Stones, written in 1965 by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and pubblicatoanello same year as a single. The song, which remains one of the most famous songs of the British band was initially broadcast in Europe only by pirate broadcasters in the text, because there were explicit references to sex. In third place are the timeless Imagine by John Lennon. Published in this album of 1971, over the years, the song has become a universal symbol of peace and brotherhood.
Behind the top team, other famous songs. In fourth place What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye, this homonymous album released by soul singer in 1971 for Motown. Reinterpreted by many other artists over the years, combining different musical genres such as jazz, soul and classical. Amcor fifth black music with the interpretation of Respect by Aretha Franklin. The song was recorded in 1965 by Otis Redding, but became a hit in 1967 in the version of Aretha, a symbol of feminist movements and also the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. The top ten of all time following Good Vibrations Beach Boys, Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry, Hey Jude by the Beatles and Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit. The choices of Rolling Stone confirmed that the sixties were the golden decade of pop music: good 195 songs in the top 500 belong to that. This seems to be the annus mirabilis 1965 (first two songs in the charts were published in that year.) Finally, the artists in the top 500 are the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. The first 23 tracks are well in the overall standings, the Stones 14. Followed by Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley with 13 pieces with 11.