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41 year old riff still rocks
More than 5000 readers of the website Music Radar were quizzed as to their favourites, and the Hendrix track came out on top, followed by Guns n Roses Sweet Child o Mine, Led Zep's Whole Lotta Love and Deep Purple's Smoke on The Water, with Eric Clapton's sterling efforts on the Derek and the Dominoes track Layla rounding out the top five.
Only two riffs from the last decade - from The White Stripes and Muse - made it into the top 20.
1. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
2. Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
3. Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
4. Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
5. Derek and the Dominos - Layla
6. AC/DC - Back In Black
7. Metallica - Enter Sandman
8. The Beatles - Day Tripper
9. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
10. The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
11. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
12. Muse - Plug In Baby
13. Eddie Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
14. The Kinks - You Really Got Me
15. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
16. AC/DC - Highway to Hell
17. Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
18. Black Sabbath - Iron Man
19. Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
20. Michael Jackson - Beat It
Source: BBC News 
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Is it not "Voodoo Chile" ... which was a deliberate mispelling by Jimi?
Apparently both spellings were listed on various releases...
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