Duran Duran's 1995 covers album 'Thank You' has apparently topped a Q Magazine poll to decide the worst albums of all time, despite the fact that the band gained a lifetime achievement gong at the Q Awards back in 2003. Other albums picked out for ignominy in the poll include Mick Jagger's 1987 solo outing 'Primitive Cool', Naomi Campell's 'Baby Woman' and Billy Idol's 'Cyberpunk'.
'Thank You', a set of Duran Duran's recordings of tracks by artists who inspired the band, features versions of Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day' and Elvis Costello's 'Watching the Detectives' and was later described by the band themselves as "commercial suicide". Q's deputy editor Gareth Grundy, called the LP "abysmal on every level", adding "Sometimes these things are redeemed by some sort of kitsch value, but it didn't even have that."
Elsewhere in polls news, the readers of Total Guitar magazine have voted Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven' the ultimate guitar solo of all time. Other tracks making the top ten included Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody', Jimi Hendrix's 'Voodoo Child' and The Eagles' 'Hotel California'.