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Is UB40 a Mythical Birmingham Band?

I didn't really realize how far that went, especially for how young they were when they were making this record. But I think that that's one of the interesting things too, is that, you know, they're such a popular band. They saw all the cool bands in the 70s. Plus, they literally saw like every cool band that you would talk about, they saw the ball. Like Simon Lebahn saw a double bill of a joy division in the cure in like 1978.

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