I was playing at a local club last Saturday for a 40th birthday and as usual the conversation soon moved from the music I was playing to the "best of" category. We were trying to come up with the best bands/performers of all times. Obviously we never all agreed on the same names and some suggestions were rather surprising to say the least.

On my return home I searched the internet for lists of the top bands of all time, as opined by Cashbox, Rolling Stone and a few other "experts" in the fiel...
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What do you think? if you were asked to compile a list of the 100 top songs of all time, what would you include?

Here is such a list "The Solid Gold Top 100 Songs HALL OF FAME".  It was released by Radio 702 and based on sales, requests and studio airplay.

I'm not sure that I agree with everything on the list, but its certainly closer than all the others I have seen.

There are a few I'd include and definitely a few I'd exclude, but not too bad! What do you think?
 
     
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Who do you think the top selling artist is? Which albums do you think are the top sellers? Well, how about the top selling songs? If you were to make a list of the top sellers of all time, what would they be?

I was thinking about that this last weekend and I made lists of who I thought would be on top. Then I did some research on the Internet to verify the true facts. Boy, was I surprised!

It is difficult these days, to find the true facts as so many media reporters, including record labels are...
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