Ivor the engineered

Radio 2 listeners forget to vote any Beatles into their Ivor Novello songs of the decades type thing poll. Surely, rather than You Really Got Me "not just on a par with Lennon and McCartney, but out in front in their contribution to and influence on British music", which is surely baseless as without the Beatles' influence on the way songs are written not to order but for themselves Ray and Dave Davies might not have so much as been allowed to put their own song out as a single, it's surely more likely the Beatles fans were split between the two qualifying songs. As for the rest, I'm inured against Angels appearing in these things by now - speaking of which, Guy Chambers seems to think Brian McFadden and Jamie Cullum are the only artists in Britain with full artistic control - but nice to see West End Girls - the first proper Londoner rap, Neil Tennant maintains - in there.