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TIL Devo 2.0, a Disney tween cover band of Devo, was the idea of Devo's Gerald Casale - when Disney proposed repurposing their material for the child audience, Casale replied that they can do it by hiring a group of children, like in The Monkees, instead of Devo playing these songs for kids.

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