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TIL that "Love Is All Around", covered by Wet Wet Wet for the soundtrack to "Four Weddings and a Funeral" was #1 for 15 weeks in the UK. Throughout its chart run, some radio stations banned the song, and the band themselves eventually took the decision to delete the record from sale.

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