The Beatles´ split 50 years on: the best songs from the solo careers
(WorldNews Music)

For the total lack of Ringo we make no apologies - the toneless `Savoy Truffle´ that was his 1971 hit `It Don´t Come Easy´ was his only shot at this list, and even that isn´t fit to suck the piles off of `Mull Of Kintyre´. But in compiling a list of the best songs by post-Beatles Beatles, you have to start by nodding to those hardy tunes that nearly made it. So we salute Macca´s `Temporary Secretary´ for trying its damndest to invent electro-pop in 1980. We hold a minute´s silence for `Pipes Of Peace´, whose melodic buzz-bomb landed just outside the list. We get stark bollock naked and wave a placard in the name of John´s slogan songs that seem a little too hippified for the modern day -...