Lloyd Price's 1958 hit 'Stagger Lee' told the story of a real-life killing—but the upbeat rock and roll track still climbed to No. 1 on the charts in 1959.
John Lennon's infamous comment put The Beatles in danger and almost ruined the band, but the controversy led to Sgt Pepper's ...
Coming in at #9 was Jimi Hendrix 's 1968 cover of Bob Dylan 's "All Along the Watchtower" (which even managed to impress Dylan himself, who said in 1995 that Hendrix "probably improved upon" the ...