This is closer than I thought it would be :o

 

Which isn't saying much as I expected Queen to win with about 95%

I voted for Queen to win because obviously but I do really like the Chesney song too so pleased that it's made the final 2 and been fairly competitive.

This is too close for my liking. :drama:

I'm not closing this yet... it's on a wire :o

 

Well it was a more closely run battle than I had expected but I think it's time to declare Queen our winner for 1991 with 52.94% of the vote. :cheer:

 

But who would have guessed that Chesney would put up such a strong fight! :o

 

Yeah pretty much every round was very conclusive apart from the final which I thought would have been the biggest landslide! Literally one vote in it.

I do like the Chesney song it just so sounds like a mid-80s Nik Kershaw track with the way its produced and structured.

 

But Queen win for me because both sides of the record are perfection.

Oops, do we need a final blurb?

 

"Second is Nik Kershaw, I mean Young Chesney Hawkes following in his dad Chip's footsteps (who last topped the charts in 1967 with Silence Is Golden), and the very commercial and fondly-remembered The One And Only, still guaranteed to give folk of a certain vintage a smile. It's a catchy, very decent pop song with no pretensions, just feel-good. In a very weak year for top-selling singles it stood out as engaging. Me, I rather liked the minor-hit follow-up too, but nobody remembers that one... Hey ho!

 

 

So, Queen win. Was there any doubt? Bo Rap alone usually wins Greatest Record Ever votes in the UK, because, y'know, it sounded like nothing else, is a classic and has passed down the generations as an anthem. I'm still sick of hearing it, though, even though it also features high (spoiler alert!) in my all-time list of top Popchartfreak chart "sales", and I'd much rather hear their other UK number one from 1991, Innuendo, hugely under-rated, or the final goodbye from Freddie Mercury, the hugely sad These Are The Days Of Our Lives. What a trooper, doing some of his best work right up to the end! Queen had the last laugh on their many Rock Muso detractors, as did Abba, cos the public don't give a flying monkey about being cool, they just know timeless class when they hear it. "