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TIL that 70s prog rockers Ambrosia took the lyrics from a 1976 track, "Nice, Nice, Very Nice," from a Kurt Vonnegut novel. When Vonnegut heard the song on the radio, he wrote the band a letter that said, "Music is the only art that’s really worth a damn. I envy you guys."

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