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- ↑ Dead Or Alive - My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me To The Doctor), 1985, retrieved 2023-08-09
- ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 85. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid 1983 and 19 June 1988.
