Guardian readers fill within the blanks in our countdown of the greatest UK No 1s of all time, with entries from Dusty Springfield to Desmond Dekker, Jimi Hendrix to Joe Dolce
To make up for the surprising scarcity of ballads within the 100, here’s one of the largest, written for Frank Sinatra earlier than the Commodores determined to maintain it for themselves. My associate is cool and ironic and cynical and anti-romantic and teases me about my fondness for smoochy ballads and would never settle for a courtly proposal set to the music of Lionel Richie, however typically I wish she would. Alexito
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