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Longtime fan John O'Donnell said his campaign was inspired by a similar british push which saw Rage Against The Machine steal the Christmas No.1 spot from TV talent show winner Joe McElderry.
"No one has done something like the Rage Against The Machine campaign in Australia yet and you only get one crack to do it right because after that, it's redundant" O'Donnell said.
On an average week, a release would only need to sell about 2500 copies to scrape into the top 10, so Keyes' single Johnny Ray's Downtown - released on March the 5th - has a pretty good chance.
Source: News.com.au 
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Perry Keyes (born 1966) is an Australian singer-songwriter He is based in Sydney, Australia. Former singer-songwriter with Sydney band the Stolen Holdens. Keyes' output is best described as "rock" but is close to a "folk-rock" style in that the lyrics detail the minutiae of life, love and (often) the seamier side of existence in and around the working class Sydney suburbs of Redfern and Waterloo....
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