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BUDDING pop groups are faced with many obstacles on their way to the top. Being forced to compose a birthday song for Saddam Hussein is not normally one of them. Yet when UTN1 (Unknown to No-One) tried to launch a music career in Baghdad during the former dictator's reign, they were obliged to provide a birthday tune before their career could progress any further.
As frontman Hassan Ali recalls, speaking down the phone from a hotel in Jordan: "We'd been told that if we wanted to do our songs we had to first sing about Saddam Hussein – unfortunately. Once that song had been broadcast we'd be allowed to have other songs broadcast, so in three days we wrote, composed and recorded a
song for his birthday.
http://www.utn1.com/pdfs/070926theherald.pdf |
The Official Web Site of UTN1
I can’t understand the lyrics of the song playing at the group’s web site but I still enjoyed listening to it. It was just relaxing unlike some of the crap I hear from the clown in the car next to me at a stoplight. These young men are now able to pursue a career in music that they had given up on.