Классическая композиция LED ZEPPELIN "Stairway To Heaven" и песня Джона Леннона "Imagine" внесены в Национальный Реестр Библиотеки Конгресса США как “культурно, исторически и эстетически значимые произведения”.
Пополнение этого списка 25-ю новыми именами происходит ежегодно. Все произведения номинируются как “сокровища, достойные сохранения на все времена”. Полный перечень 2023 года выглядит так:
"The Very First Mariachi Recordings" - Cuarteto Coculense (1908-1909)
"St. Louis Blues" - Handy's Memphis Blues Band (1922)
"Sugar Foot Stomp" - Fletcher Henderson (1926)
Dorothy Thompson: Commentary and Analysis of the European Situation for NBC Radio (Aug. 23-Sept. 6, 1939)
"Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around" - The Fairfield Four (1947)
"Sherry" - The Four Seasons (1962)
"What the World Needs Now is Love" - Jackie DeShannon (1965)
"Wang Dang Doodle" - Koko Taylor (1966)
"Ode to Billie Joe" - Bobbie Gentry (1967)
"Déjà Vu" - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (1970)
"Imagine" - John Lennon (1971)
"Stairway to Heaven" - Led Zeppelin (1971)
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" - John Denver (1971)
"Margaritaville" - Jimmy Buffett (1977)
"Flashdance…What a Feeling" - Irene Cara (1983)
"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" - Eurythmics (1983)
"Synchronicity" - The Police (1983)
"Like a Virgin" - Madonna (1984)
"Black Codes (From the Underground)" - Wynton Marsalis (1985)
Super Mario Bros. theme - Koji Kondo, composer (1985)
"All Hail the Queen" - Queen Latifah (1989)
"All I Want for Christmas is You" - Mariah Carey (1994)
"Pale Blue Dot" - Carl Sagan (1994)
"Gasolina" - Daddy Yankee (2004)
"Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra" - Northwest Chamber Orchestra, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, composer (2012)
