Eclipsed on scores front but Ring is still Ring

Of the many great crimes that befell the last century, Ultravox’s Vienna being kept off the top of the UK single charts by Joe Dolce’s Shaddaup You Face in 1981 stands most unashamedly among them.

Eclipsed on scores front but Ring is still Ring

More pompous than The Pogues’ Fairytale of New York being pipped to the Christmas No.1 in 1987 by the Pet Shop Boys’ decent cover of Elvis Presley’s You Are Always On My Mind. More ignorant than Oasis’ Wonderwall being deprived of top spot in 1995 by those Geordie cringe-crooners Robson and Jerome’s I Believe/Up On The Roof.

You just can’t legislate for taste and charts are notoriously unreliable barometers of quality.

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