Who is uk no 1

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The junglist breakbeats keep the energy high, while the big piano chords and yearning vocals are like a head massage from some bloke you just met but nevertheless now feel a deeper kinship with than your immediate family. Channelling Bach and the Beats, the trippy imagery of this 10m seller made it a fave of those turning on and tuning in during the Summer of Love. The heaviest, sweariest No 1 in UK history — with one of the best riffs, too — only reached No 25 when it was first released in , but reached the top in after a grassroots campaign from people angry at a run of X Factor contestants dominating the Christmas No 1 race.

Dance music No 1s almost always bang, but this one pumps: a deep-house anthem of huge subtlety and power. The confusing rush of ecstasy, in every sense, has never been so beautifully evoked. With its gospel vocals and cathedral-ready chords, it makes raving feel like a serious spiritual quest rather than something to do on a Friday. Pop holds few greater pleasures than seeing a pop song about the power of pop songs take on that kind of lure itself.

Come on Eileen became that song: a romp through wistfulness, bonhomie and knees-up antics that distils the riotous emotional arc of a night in an Irish pub into three-and-a-half perfect minutes. This is a Terminator of a song, unstoppably delivering a payload of pure euphoria as Chicago house is spliced with Italo disco to create perfect pop.

Coming full circle, Stan is worthy of it. The original German version is still the best, however. A fabulously bitchy kiss-off to the three members of Cockney Rebel who left the band after their album The Psychomodo, the genius of Make Me Smile Come Up and See Me is to couch its screw-you message in the sunniest, most charming, irresistibly hook-laden music imaginable.

Jailhouse Rock was intended as a joke by writers Leiber and Stoller, complete with a nudging reference to gay sex.

Elvis, however, ignored the comic undercurrent, and sang it with such blazing intensity that the performance almost collapses at If you want a No 1 that captures his early, feral power, this is it. Most mids indie nostalgia is tinged with shame: the polka dots, bad fringes and herky-jerky dancing have not dated well. After all that Ariana Grande had been through — the Manchester Arena bombing, the death of a beloved ex, a broken engagement — she could have released 10 minutes of primal screaming and still left critics saying: yeah, fair enough.

The way the choir, timpani, strings, horns, guitars and more all stay meringue-fluffy is arranger Ivor Raymonde just showing off, really. After a labour-intensive recording process featuring endless harmonising and dozens of feet of tape loops, 10cc came away with this work of stubborn beauty: a sublime, shimmering evocation of the ineffable bond between two lovers.

It endures in every sense: Stewart and Gloria have been married for more than 50 years. A posthumous chart-topper after her death in a plane crash when she was 22, More Than a Woman is one of the trio of masterpiece singles she made with Timbaland, along with We Need a Resolution and Try Again. It never gets less wrenching to think what else she might have done. Ah, the song of the summer.

On one hand, All the Things She Said is the ne plus ultra of queerbaiting: two straight Russian teenagers cajoled into lesbian cosplay by some dodgy-sounding svengalis. The boy band — well, Gary Barlow — had already shown they could do serious and affecting balladry with A Million Love Songs , and then they perfectly honed that skill for this classic breakup song. Other early house hits had at least come with a song or a hook attached, but this had neither: it may be the most minimal No 1 of all time.

A new high-water mark of commercial success for British rap was set by this incandescently brilliant wave of London MCs, each given 21 seconds of time on the mic.

Everyone with even a glancing interest in pop knows Bohemian Rhapsody, which means its sheer audacity is easy to overlook. And, hey, if it was good enough for Larry Levan … LS. He was six months early, but Numan was always ahead of his time: oft-mocked, his alienated-suburbanite-in-a-world-of-technology schtick now seems remarkably prescient.

One of the greatest Christmas No 1s of all time is a triumph of emotional candour. It resembles a breakup song with its talk of final kisses, but was written by Tony Mortimer after his brother killed himself. It remains an astonishingly intense way to spend three minutes. There are plenty of arguments for Heart of Glass not really qualifying as the only UK No 1 punk single.