Struggle Town

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"Struggle Town"
Single by The Choirboys
from the album Big Bad Noise
B-side "Last Night of My Life"
ReleasedMay 1988
RecordedFestival and Albert Studios, Sydney, Australia
Label Mushroom Records
Songwriter(s) Mark Gable, Brad Carr, Lindsay Tebbutt
Producer(s) Brian McGee, Choirboys
The Choirboys singles chronology
"Boys Will Be Boys"
(1988)
"Struggle Town"
(1988)
"Empire"
(1989)

"Struggle Town" is a song by Australian hard rock group The Choirboys, released in May 1988 as the fourth and final single from their second studio album Big Bad Noise . The song was written about Queanbeyan [1] and peaked at number 28 on the Australian ARIA charts.

Contents

Track listing

Australian 7" vinyl (K 540)

Charts

Weekly chart performance of Struggle Town
Chart (1988)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [2] 28

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References

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  2. "Choirboys – Struggle Town". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 17 August 2023.