To musical bluebloods, or blue-ears, or whatever you might call them, pop music has always been seen as an opiate for the masses. Listeners with taste never go for the most popular. They are more ...

“The Long and Winding Road” is not on the following list. As a pop-rock song from the 1970s (released in 1970, around the same time the Beatles officially broke up), it qualifies to be on the list.