Excellent point! I concur.
I definitely agree that only the first place song really “counts” - it’s a bit like how in the World Cup, the final game might not be that competitive because the two best teams played each other ages ago in one of the less publicized rounds. But the objective is only to find the number one song (plus, this way has the advantage of getting a great song from each stylistic period in the final collection). Another way to do it that would get more than one song would be to make a poll with every Beatles song ever recorded, but I’m way too lazy to make a poll with 200 options. 
I nearly voted for “In My Life,” but “Strawberry Fields Forever” was my choice. There’s nothing else quite like it.
I disagree somewhat. “Something” is just as good a song, and his Concert for Bangladesh represented another (non-Beatles) peak.
But after 1971, yeah, it was largely off the peak with George.
I went with “A Day in the Life”, although it’s actually only my third or fourth favorite Beatles tune.
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Yeah, I do not have a very high opinion of “Something”, and although “Here Comes the Sun” is good, it certainly did not get my vote (or even my second place, maybe not even third) as the best of Abbey Road. All Things Must Pass was pretty good though (especially if you discount the Apple Jam disc), and I really do think that, at least while the band was together, George was fairly consistently doing what John and Paul had been doing about two albums before (and often doing pretty well).
Hard decision between In My Life and Strawberry Fields. I went with In My Lift, but I could easily pick Strawberry Fields tomorrow.
…later Americanized by Aerosmith as “Love in an Elevator”
“There are buttons I remember…In my lift, I’ve punched them all…”
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