VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Rock & Roll Easy Guitar with Notes & Tab Edition

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• ISBN13: 9780634041112
• ISBN10: 0634041118
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Hal Leonard

Summary

VH1 sent ballots to over 700 musicians, songwriters, disc jockeys and radio programmers and asked them to vote on the 100 greatest songs of rock and roll. The results were shown in a much-publicized feature, and selections from that show are here in this awesome collection of the best and most influential rock songs of all time! Songs are arranged by their ranking with artists listed, and include: All Along the Watchtower * American Pie * Blowin' in the Wind * Born to Run * California Dreamin' * Fire and Rain * Good Vibrations * Hey Jude * Hotel California * I Heard It Through the Grapevine * Imagine * In the Midnight Hour * Jump * Layla * Light My Fire * Like a Rolling Stone * London Calling * Louie, Louie * Maggie May * My Generation * No Woman No Cry * Proud Mary * Respect * Roxanne * Smells like Teen Spirit * Stand by Me * Start Me Up * Tangled Up in Blue * Walk This Way * We Are the Champions * Wild Thing * Yesterday * and more.

Table of Contents

All Along the Watchtower (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)	p. 6
All Shook Up (Elvis Presley)	p. 12
American Pie (Don McLean)	p. 22
Beat It (Michael Jackson)	p. 17
Blowin' in the Wind (Bob Dylan)	p. 32
Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins)	p. 36
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)	p. 42
Born to Be Wild (Steppenwolf)	p. 39
Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen)	p. 52
Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel)	p. 63
Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)	p. 68
California Dreamin' (The Mamas & The Papas)	p. 71
California Girls (The Beach Boys)	p. 74
Crazy (Patsy Cline)	p. 78
A Day in the Life (The Beatles)	p. 84
(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay (Otis Redding)	p. 81
Dream On (Aerosmith)	p. 90
Every Breath You Take (The Police)	p. 97
Fire and Rain (James Taylor)	p. 104
For What It's Worth (The Buffalo Springfield)	p. 108
Free Bird (Lynyrd Skynyrd)	p. 116
Gimme Some Lovin' (Spencer Davis Group)	p. 120
Gloria (Them)	p. 113
God Only Knows (The Beach Boys)	p. 124
Good Golly Miss Molly (Little Richard)	p. 128
Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys)	p. 131
Great Balls of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis)	p. 140
A Hard Day's Night (The Beatles)	p. 143
Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley)	p. 148
Hey Jude (The Beatles)	p. 158
Hotel California (Eagles)	p. 151
Hound Dog (Elvis Presley)	p. 162
I Got You (I Feel Good) (James Brown)	p. 165
I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Marvin Gaye)	p. 170
I Want to Hold Your Hand (The Beatles)	p. 174
Imagine (John Lennon with The Plastic Ono Band)	p. 178
In the Midnight Hour (Wilson Pickett)	p. 182
Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley)	p. 185
Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry)	p. 188
Jump (Van Halen)	p. 190
La Bamba (Ritchie Valens)	p. 198
Layla (Derek and The Dominos)	p. 201
Let It Be (The Beatles)	p. 206
Let's Stay Together (Al Green)	p. 216
Light My Fire (The Doors)	p. 220
Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)	p. 211
London Calling (The Clash)	p. 224
Louie, Louie (The Kingsmen)	p. 236
Maggie May (Rod Stewart)	p. 238
More Than a Feeling (Boston)	p. 229
My Generation (The Who)	p. 242
My Girl (The Temptations)	p. 252
No Woman No Cry (Bob Marley)	p. 245
Oh, Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison)	p. 258
Papa Was a Rollin' Stone (The Temptations)	p. 270
Piano Man (Billy Joel)	p. 265
Proud Mary (Creedence Clearwater Revival)	p. 274
Purple Haze (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)	p. 279
Respect (Aretha Franklin)	p. 282
Rock Around the Clock (Bill Haley and His Comets)	p. 296
Roxanne (The Police)	p. 298
Sexual Healing (Marvin Gaye)	p. 285
She Loves You (The Beatles)	p. 300
Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)	p. 305
Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane)	p. 310
Space Oddity (David Bowie)	p. 320
Stand by Me (Ben E. King)	p. 317
Start Me Up (The Rolling Stones)	p. 324
Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees)	p. 328
Strawberry Fields Forever (The Beatles)	p. 333
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills & Nash)	p. 336
Summertime Blues (Eddie Cochran)	p. 354
Sunshine of Your Love (Cream)	p. 349
Superstition (Stevie Wonder)	p. 358
Tangled Up in Blue (Bob Dylan)	p. 362
That'll Be the Day (The Crickets)	p. 366
Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen)	p. 368
The Twist (Chubby Checker)	p. 378
Twist and Shout (The Beatles)	p. 380
Walk This Way (Aerosmith)	p. 384
We Are the Champions (Queen)	p. 392
We've Only Just Begun (The Carpenters)	p. 396
What'd I Say (Ray Charles)	p. 400
What's Going On (Marvin Gaye)	p. 404
When Doves Cry (Prince)	p. 410
Wild Thing (The Troggs)	p. 389
Yesterday (The Beatles)	p. 414
You Really Got Me (The Kinks)	p. 417
You Shook Me All Night Long (AC/DC)	p. 426
Your Song (Elton John)	p. 420
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