“The Long and Winding Road” is not on the following list. As a pop-rock song from the 1970s (released in 1970, around the same time the Beatles officially broke up), it qualifies to be on the list.

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Dave Ball, the instrumentalist in the synth-pop duo Soft Cell, who enjoyed a massive worldwide hit with their 1981 cover of ...