David Bowie

The Top 25 Songs as voted for by you

One of Britain's greatest ever singer/songwriters, David Bowie, turned 65 in January 2012 and after a glittering career spanning almost five decades, his early hits are proving just as popular today. Bowie's stunning track 'Life on Mars,' topped our poll of Absolute Radio and Absolute Classic Rock listeners.

The song, taken from his fourth album Hunky Dory, peaked at number three in the UK charts when it was released in 1973 and since then it has gone on to beat a huge list of other great tracks to win several polls to find the top 100 songs of all time. It's also been covered on countless occasions and re-entered the charts some thirty years later after it featured on the BBC's smash hit TV show of the same name, starring John Simm.

Absolute Classic Rock presenter Leona Graham says of the song, 'It's a timeless classic and the fact that it's made it to number one on our poll, almost forty years after it was unleashed to the world, proves that.’

The Top 25 in full

Here's the Top 25 Bowie songs, as voted for by you.

1. Life On Mars
2. Heroes
3. Starman
4. Space Oddity
5. Jean Genie
6. Ashes to Ashes
7. Ziggy Stardust
8. Rebel Rebel
9. Let's Dance
10. Suffragette City
11. Changes
12. China Girl
13. Under Pressure
14. Modern Love
15. Oh! You Pretty Things
16. Golden Years
17. Young Americans
18. Rock & Roll Suicide
19. Sound and Vision
20. John I'm Only Dancing
21. Queen Bitch
22. Drive in Saturday
23. Absolute Beginners
24. Moonage Daydream
25. Lady Stardust

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