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the most beautiful and famous pop songs of the 40 years

It seems a lot of respondents are struggling with that clause. I think that's what make the challenge interesting because while pop music of the last 40 years may not be your in wheel house, there likely have been mighty pop song fish that passed over your transom uninvited so big you turned to look and made a lasting impression. Can you remember any of those on cue?
I just don't listen to a lot of pop music but depends how you define it perhaps. Someone who listens to mostly classical I generally feel has no idea about most other music genres for example, and to them all rock/jazz is even pop.
 
This was always a fun one to hear in certain settings:

Divinyls - "Touch Myself"

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Guns N' Roses

Cold November Rain
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Patience
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Pearl Jam

Yellow Ledbetter

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Last Kiss

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Nirvana

Man Who Sold the World

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U2

With or Without You

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Well, this will be the post to rule them all. None of the previous contributions even reach the shoulders of this pop-gem from the mid-80s.

Crowded House - Don’t Dream It’s Over

 

Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper - Shallow​


and a great cover by Tim Akkerman & Floor Jansen:

 
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