Beatles fail to get listeners’ vote in top songs of last 50 years

THE top five songs of the past five decades were named yesterday after listeners to British station Radio 2 were asked to vote for the best song from each decade since the 1950s.

They chose Angels by Robbie Williams, West End Girls by the Pet Shop Boys, Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, Space Oddity by David Bowie and You Really Got Me by the Kinks.

There was no place for the Beatles or John Lennon.