Procol Harum's 1967 hit A Whiter Shade of Palehas topped a BBC chart as "the most played song in public places of the last 75 years".

A BBC spokesman said the list was compiled based on songs that had "outplayed all others . . . in public, from cafes to clubs and from the high street to hospital radio". Queen's Bohemian Rhapsodyand The Everly Brothers' All I Have to Do Is Dreamtook second and third place.