OK, given the imminent shortlisting (when is that?) I'l l post my guesses for the Top 5 of the seventies:

The Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Carole King - It's Too Late
The Who - Baba O'Reilly

I dropped Stairway to Heaven at the last minute.....hoping everyone will be too embarassed to choose it. But then, I included Bohemian Rhapsody. I'm a mass of contradictions. No new wave (Costello, Cars, Joy Division, Talking Heads), but then, there's always the eighties, and no Hard Rock (other than The Who). We'll see.

The much-anticipated (and frankly, over-hyped) list of my personal favourites from the 40's through 80's will follow later this week.