We Built This City Is Worst Ever Ditty ; Pundits Identify Songs That Shouldn't Have Made Charts

Evening Standard - London › April 21, 2004

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IT dropped out of the British charts at No 12 in 1985, but the single We Built This City by Starship has been declared the worst song ever to be a hit.

It heads a top 50 chart of bad music released today by rock magazine Blender, which says it "seems to inspire the most virulent feelings of outrage".

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We Built This City Is Worst Ever Ditty ; Pundits Identify Songs That Shouldn't Have Made Charts

Editor Craig Marks added that the song, co-written by Sir Elton John's songwriting partner Bernie Taupin, was "a real reflection of what practicall...

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