Ah well, perhaps Ringo could take heart in the fact his band have topped yet another totally pointless music survey. Yep, the 1967 Beatles' track 'A Day In The Life' has been hailed the best British song of all time by a panel of "music experts" interviewed by Q. The Beatles track was followed by The Kinks song 'Waterloo Sunset' and Oasis' 'Wonderwall'.
The Beatles song, of course, comes from the 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' album, and it's finale was described by Lennon at the time as "a sound building up from nothing to the end of the world". In their summary of their latest summary, Q say the track is "the ultimate sonic rendition of what it means to be British".
The full top ten in the Q survey runs thus:
1. The Beatles - A Day In The Life
2. The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
3. Oasis - Wonderwall
4. Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
5. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
6. The Who - My Generation
7. Robbie Williams - Angel
8. David Bowie - Life on Mars?
9. Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
10. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy