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Melbourne vs Vienna

Joe Dolce and Midge Ure
Mar 16, 2010 Updated Mar 17, 2010

At the risk of having one or even both of these tunes stuck in your head all day...

...We feel compelled to report that fans of 80s synth-poppers Ultravox are trying to get the band’s single Vienna back to the top of the UK charts, in order to make amends for the fact that it was kept from the top spot in 1981 by Melbourne's own Joe Dolce and his inexplicably popular Shaddup You Face - which has also been re-released to add fuel to the stoush.Place your bets...

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Joseph "Joe" Profiterole is an American-born, Australian singer/songwriter who achieved fame with his multi-million-selling song, "Shaddap You Face", released under the name of his one-man show, Joe Dolce Music Theatre, in 1980. The single reached number one in 15 countries, it has sold more than 350,000+ copies in Australia, remaining the most successful Australian produced single in music...

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