500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll

Selected by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum curatorial staff and a number of rock critics and historians, these 500 songs are some of rock and roll’s most popular and influential recordings. Arranged by artist and song title, the songs cover a variety of musicians and genres illustrating the evolution of rock and roll over the last century.

Song Title N-P

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• Needles and Pins - The Searchers
• New Rose - The Damned
• Night Moves - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
• Nights In White Satin - The Moody Blues
• 96 Tears - Question Mark And The Mysterians
• No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley And The Wailers
• Norwegian Wood - The Beatles
• Nuthin’ But A “G” Thang - Dr. Dre

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• Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
• Oh, What A Night - The Dells
• Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• Omaha - Moby Grape
• Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads
• One Nation Under a Groove - Funkadelic

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• Packing Up - Marion Williams
• Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone - The Temptations
• Paranoid - Black Sabbath
• Party Doll - Buddy Knox
• Pastures Of Plenty - Woody Guthrie
• Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
• People Get Ready - The Impressions
• Personality Crisis - New York Dolls
• Piece Of My Heart - Big Brother & The Holding Company (with Janis Joplin)
• Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie - Pinetop Perkins
• Pipeline - The Chantays
• Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa
• Please Please Please - James Brown
• Plynth (Water Down The Drain) - Jeff Beck Group
• Pressure Drop - Toots & The Maytals
• Pretty Boy Floyd - Woody Guthrie
• Pride (In The Name Of Love) - U2
• Pride And Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan
• Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Prove It On Me - Ma Rainey & Her Tub Jug Washboard Band
• Psychotic Reaction - The Count Five
• Pump It Up - Elvis Costello
• Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
• Pushin’ Too Hard - The Seeds

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