For me, it's a joint four-way tie between Ultravox's Vienna, Duran Duran's A View to a Kill, A-ha's…

e Dolce. Go f…, both the song and video, filmed in London’s Covent Garden made to look like the Austrian capital. This is Ultravox’s signature song and the UK’s most infuriating I-can’t-believe-that-wasn’t-number-one number two single. The song that beat it? Shaddap Your Face by Joe Dolce. Go figure.
8 Songs That Are Tributes To The Movies
388
10
Carol Saint Martin
Simon Dillon
·Follow
Dec 27, 2023
--
For me, it's a joint four-way tie between Ultravox's Vienna, Duran Duran's A View to a Kill, A-ha's Take on Me, and Pet Shop Boys/Dusty Springfield's What Have I Done to Deserve This? All reached number two in the UK, and all should have been number one. Grrr...
--
--
Written by Simon Dillon
49.95K Followers
·101 Following
Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com
Responses (1)
Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams