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THE MOST PLAYED SONG IN THE COUNTRY OF ALL TIME: If you do pub quizzes, you might want to make a note of this on the inside of your sleeve - the PPL rights collection agency have done their sums, and calculated that, if you add together radio, club, shop and jukebox plays, Procul Harum's A Whiter Shade of Pale is the most-heard song of the last seventy years. (My stubborn constant repeat playing of Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now on the Butlins', Filey, jukebox one summer doesn't seem to have a had an impact on the figures. Bohemian Rhapsody is at number two - although if you strip out plays to illustrate 'Listener's All-Time Top 100' charts, it'd probably wind up much lower.

That top ten in full:

1. Procul Harum ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’
2. Queen ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
3. Wet Wet Wet ‘Love Is All Around’
4. The Everly Brothers ‘All I Have To Do Is Dream’/’Claudette’
5. Bryan Adams ‘(Everything I Do) I Do It For You’
6. Abba ‘Dancing Queen’
7. Elvis Presley ‘All Shook Up’
8. Rod Stewart ‘Maggie May’
9. The Beatles ‘Hello Goodbye’
10. The Beatles ‘Get Back’

Jesus wept - it's a wonder we don't have more people charging round shooting people at random in the streets. But is it only me who finds the presence of Hello Goodbye and Get back - rather than, say Twist and Shout - slightly odd?