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Back the mid-’80s, the Delicious chocolate Watchband were trapped within an odd paradox (that actually wasn’t that awful a place to become for a music group that didn’t exist any more). They hadn’t performed a note jointly in nearly 15 years, but their first albums had been changing hands for …

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