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Clickbait List: Paul McCartney’s 35 Best Songs, Unless You Disagree

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This weekend Paul McCartney celebrated his 80th birthday. His career stretches back to 1957 when he first wrote songs with George Harrison and John Lennon.

Everyone has a list of their favorite McCartney songs. Which ones are the best? I made a list of 35 songs. That’s 35 out of 500, maybe. So you will disagree, and I don’t blame you.

I had the pleasure of seeing McCartney in concert on Thursday night, and had a lot of time to think about all this. But send in your lists to showbiz411@gmail.com, too.

  1. Let it Be
  2. Hey Jude
  3. Long and Winding Road
  4. Yesterday
  5. I Saw Her Standing There
  6. Can’t Buy Me Love
  7. All My Loving
  8. Maybe I’m Amazed
  9. Here, There, and Everywhere
  10. Penny Lane
  11. Band on the Run
  12. Another Day
  13. I Will
  14. I’ve Just Seen a Face
  15. Eleanor Rigby
  16. My Brave Face
  17. Oh Darling
  18. Every Night
  19. Blackbird
  20. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely/With a Little Help
  21. She’s Leaving Home
  22. Hi Hi Hi
  23. Too Many People
  24. Daytime Nighttime Suffering
  25. I’ve Just Seen a Face
  26. The Fool on the Hill
  27. Lady Madonna
  28. For No One
  29. Martha My Dear
  30. My Love
  31. We Can Work it Out
  32. And I Love Her
  33. Listen to What the Man Said
  34. Same Love (from the Flaming Pie outtakes)
  35. Helter Skelter

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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