Ultravox - "Vienna" (1981)
The English/Scottish band reached No2 in the UK with this.
The song originally had slightly different lyrics. Vocalist Midge Ure didn't like the song originally and in the recording studio he proclaimed "This means nothing to me!", at which point the German producer Conny Plank shouted out "Well sing that then!", so Ure did, and the song became a massive hit.
It was kept off the UK No1 spot by "Shaddap You Face" by the cheesy American singer Joe Dolce.
In 2017, Ure declined an opportunity to meet Dolce, saying: "I've had 40 years of people talking about Joe 'Bloody' Dolce and I don't want to spend what I've got left talking about when I met him."
Still, Ultravox got what is now a classic hit in an era of great pop music