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Old music: Stretch – Why Did You Do it?

An attempt at conning American audiences inspired a reproachful, bitter classic of white pop-funkThe story of Stretch and their one great song, Why Did You Do That Thing?, is odd but wonderful. It begins with a group of musicians cobbled together by Fleetwood Mac's manager to impersonate the real Mac for a US tour. The ruse failed and – the faux Mac unmasked – the tour fell apart amid acrimony.Frontman Elmer Gantry (a pseudonym taken by Dave Terry from a Sinclair Lewis novel about a hellfire...

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09:39 on October 25 2011

Old music: Stretch – Why Did You Do it?

Guardian Music — An attempt at conning American audiences inspired a reproachful, bitter classic of white pop-funkThe story of Stretch and their one great song, Why Did You Do That Thing?... more info
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