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Brother Beyond, White became a behind-the-scenes type, and he's one of the many who worked with both Adele and Florence. (White co-wrote Adele's breakout single, 2007's "Chasing Pavements," which peaked at #21.) So Florence had a steadying pop-industry professional working on her on "What The Water Gave Me," but you can't really tell. That's a good thing.
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Brother Beyond briefly cameo'd on the U.S. pop charts with the jazzy R&B of 1990's Hot 100 top 40 hit "The Girl I Used to Know," but their more delectable entry to the boy band canon came with their breakout hit across the pond, the No. 2-peaking British smash "The Harder I Try." The
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January of that year. This would be the group's last single to chart, and they disbanded not long after, with record label EMI dumping them amid promotion
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swinging Stock/Aitken/Waterman-engineered single threw back to '60s Motown better than any U.K. outfit since Wham!, though it was kept off the top of the charts by a couple of actual soul covers: Yazz's "The Only Way Is Up" and Phil
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