Sixteen Bowie Songs In Virgin All Time Top 500

Commencing countdown…

The annual Virgin Radio All Time Top 500 Songs is here again with sixteen David Bowie songs voted in by 7,000 Virgin Radio listeners. Fourteen of the songs are actual Bowie recordings, including one with Queen, and the remaining two were recorded by Mott The Hoople and Iggy Pop. Here’s the breakdown:

#40 – “Heroes”
#57 – Space Oddity
#80 – Under Pressure (With Queen)
#92 – Life On Mars?
#100 – All The Young Dudes (Mott The Hoople)
#115 – Starman
#128 – The Jean Genie
#212 – Young Americans
#165 – Changes
#273 – Sound And Vision
#291 – Rebel Rebel
#364 – Let’s Dance
#398 – Sorrow
#432 – China Girl
#447 – Golden Years
#455 – Lust For Life (Iggy Pop)

As you can see, the highest position for Bowie was #40. But, for what it’s worth, the Top 10 goes like this: :

01 Imagine ? John Lennon
02 Hey Jude ? Beatles
03 Let It Be ? Beatles
04 One ? U2
05 Angels ? Robbie Williams
06 Bohemian Rhapsody ? Queen
07 Stairway to Heaven ? Led Zeppelin
08 Every Breath You Take ? The Police
09 Hotel California ? The Eagles
10 You?re Beautiful ? James Blunt

The inclusion of newcomer James Blunt in the Top 10 is a very frightening development and further evidence that Virgin listeners are generally not to be trusted…apart from all the Bowie songs they voted in.

NB: Due to a technicality, there were no winners of the brief contest we ran on this. By technicality I mean word blindness and poor observation on my part…a bit!