And what kind of person doesn't know who Shakespeare or Newton is, or at least doesn't know enough to know that Shakespeare probably had more of an impact on civilisation than Lady Di?
Still, we can probably be thankful that Robbie Williams isn't at #5 or something.
It's probably all those scandalous stories they have been spreading about her on the Hour of Slack.
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Sun Nov 24 07:21:01 2002
It's due, I think, to the nature of short-term memory and lack of knowledge of history that the lowest common denominator seem to have. How many polls of important and/or great musicians come out with a Beethoven or Bach anywhere close to the top, or, indeed, in the list at all? People tend to only go on what they can personally remember or see.