Some of my favourite top of the pops hit single (guilty?) pleasures that deal with "idealization" and "dreaming".
FIFTIES (3)
1954 Jo Stafford   Make Love To Me Ideal? voice recording in my year of birth
1958 Everly Brothers   All I Have To Do Is Dream Live
SIXTIES (58)
1960 The Brothers Four   Greenfields Searching the ideal voice recording within the Vereeniging van Arbeiders Radio Amateurs
1960 Billy Fury   Wondrous Place Searching the ideal but the voice is too wet
1965 The Mamas & The Papas   California Dreaming .
1965 Red Hot Chili Peppers   Californication .
1965 The Motions   Wasted Words NL Den Haag, written by Robbie van Leeuwen who was a fan of Martin Luther King
1967 The Small Faces   Itchycoo Park First? use of a tape flanger Its all too beautifull
1967 The Tremeloes   Even The Bad Times Are Good Inversion leads to TRUTH
1968 The Small Faces   Lazy Sunday Afternoon Listen to the sea side sound scape including seagulls, church bells and more birds
1969 Zager And Evans   In The Year 2525
SEVENTIES (42)
1970 Van Morrison   Moondance Idealism in love ecstasy
1972 Roxy Music   Re-Make / Re-Model Perfect sync between musicians
1973 Dizzy Man's Band   The Show NL Zaandam, Guilty pleasure hitsingle about Guilty pleasure hitsingles
1973 Pink Floyd   Money Money is a drivinf force, Their engineer, Alan Parsons, played an important role (see 1980)
1974 10 CC   The Wall Street Shuffle
1977 Mistral   Starship 109 NL Den Haag, Guilty pleasure written by Robbie van Leeuwen
EIGHTIES (26)
1982 Imagination   Just An Illusion We love illusions
1985 Talking Heads   Road to Nowhere
1986 Genesis   Land Of Confusion There's too many men, too many people, decimating the world population is the ultimate solution
1987 Nits   In the Dutch mountains NL Amsterdam
NINETIES (7)
1990 Depeche Mode   Enjoy The Silence .
1991 R.E.M.   Losing My Religion .
1994 Youssou N'Dour   7 Seconds ft. Neneh Cherry Battle's not over, Even when it's won
1995 Pulp   Common People For me the reverse is more true
1996 Spice Girls   Wannabe What you really want can be a very guilty pleasure
1999 Fatboy Slim   Praise You Listen to the frame repeats e.g. 0:36-0:56
1999 Santana ft. Rob Thomas   Smooth .
ZERO'S (1)
2004 Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams .
TENS (0)
TWENTIES (but not roaring) (8)
2021 Ava Max - Who's Laughing Now .