Article: TOP POP SONG: 'YESTERDAY'

DAVID BAUDER, Associated Press
The Columbian
11-17-2000
NEW YORK -- "Yesterday," the wistful Beatles ballad that has been recorded more than 3,000 times by other artists, was chosen the greatest pop song since 1963 by MTV and Rolling Stone magazine.
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson and Madonna have two songs each in the top 25 of the 100-song list.
The Rolling Stones' ode to sexual frustration, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," was second. Another music channel, VH1, named it the greatest song in the rock era in a list earlier this year.
Nirvana's 1991 single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit," which launched rock's grunge era and was the career apex for the late Kurt ...

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