One by U2 Voted Britain's Top Lyric

Irish Rock band U2 topped a recent poll of 13,000 participants conducted by VH1 to find Britain's favorite pop music lyric. U2 topped the survey with a line from the song One, off of the band's 1991 album Achtung Baby, "One life, with each other, sisters, brothers."

In second place behind U2, fronted by booming political minded vocalist Bono, was a song by The Smiths, How Soon Is Now, and the lyric, "So you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home, and you cry, and you want to die." Third place went to Nirvana and the hit song Smells Like Teen Spirit and the lyric, "I feel stupid and contagious, here we are now, entertain us."

With the haunting Redemption Song by reggae legend Bob Marley in fourth spot, and Yellow by Coldplay in fifth place, according to the Associated Press, the remainder of the VH1 survey was as colorful and bold as U2, "The top 10 was a mix of the affirmative and the acerbic, ranging from Robbie Williams' uplifting 'Angels' - 'And through it all she offers me protection, a lot of love and affection, whether I'm right or wrong' -- to Radiohead's sour 'Creep.' "

The songs for the VH1 poll were selected by various music industry personalities who gave participants 100 songs to choose from.

Irish rockers Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. originally formed U2 back in 1976 under the name Feedback, and later The Hype. It wasn't until 1979 that the band changed their name to U2 and released their first single U2-3 on the British charts. In 1980, the band signed to Island records and released Boy, but U2 shot to even bigger stardom in 1983 with the release of War, which spawned the classic U2 anthem Sunday Bloody Sunday. After War, and a memorable performance at the 1985 music festival, Live Aid, U2 became legends of their time with subsequent hit albums, The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree, Rattle & Hum, Achtung Baby, Zooropa, Pop, and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.

One and its lyric, "One life, with each other, sisters, brothers," was one of five hit singles that U2 release from Achtung Baby, the other well known songs are, Mysterious Ways, The Fly, Who's Going to Ride Your Wild Horses, and Even Better Than the Real Thing.

- Steve Taylor