Ranking the five best number ones from 1971
Music’s greatest year?
Rod Stewart
The 1962 song Rod Stewart couldn’t compete with: “I could never have sung it better”
No match for the crooner.
The only song Rod Stewart doesn’t want to listen to ever again: “There’s some right bum notes in there”
Finding all of the bum notes.
The song Rod Stewart got tired of singing but sang for the fans: “It was so put down”
The iconic laughingstock.
“I was really a big fan”: The singer David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar both called the best
The absolute peak of performance.