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\"\"<\/a>Rolling Stone magazine has for the first time rated the greatest 100 Beatles’ songs, with the 1967 track A Day in the Life written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney topping the list that was released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Coming in second was top-selling 1963 single I Want to Hold Your Hand followed by Strawberry Fields Forever, which recalled Lennon’s nostalgia for his childhood growing up in Liverpool in Britain.<\/p>\n

The list was released as part of a special collector’s edition issue titled The Beatles: 100 Greatest Songs to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Fab Four’s 12th and final studio album, Let It Be, released in 1970.<\/p>\n

“Lennon, McCartney and Harrison had stunningly high standards as writers,” musician Elvis Costello said in the introduction to the Rolling Stone list.<\/p>\n

“Then they started to really grow up: simple love lyrics to adult stories… and on to bigger ideas than you would expect to find in catchy pop lyrics.”<\/p>\n

Yesterday, McCartney’s 1965 track that once had a work title of Scrambled Eggs while the lyrics were written, came in fourth and In My Life, released on the album Rubber Soul, placed fifth.<\/p>\n

Rolling Stone’s Top 10 list of Greatest Beatles songs are:<\/p>\n

1. A Day in the Life<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2. I Want to Hold Your Hand<\/strong><\/p>\n

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3. Strawberry Fields Forever<\/strong><\/p>\n

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4. Yesterday<\/strong><\/p>\n

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5. In My Life<\/strong><\/p>\n

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6. Something<\/strong><\/p>\n

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7. Hey Jude<\/strong><\/p>\n

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8. Let It Be<\/strong><\/p>\n

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9. Come Together<\/strong><\/p>\n

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10. While My Guitar Gently Weeps<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rolling Stone magazine has for the first time rated the greatest 100 Beatles’ songs, with the 1967 track A Day in the Life written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney topping the list that was released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Coming in second was top-selling 1963 single I Want to Hold Your Hand followed by Strawberry Fields <\/p>\n

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