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TIL that Rockstar Games felt that the Skatt Brothers song "Walk the Night" was so essential to GTA IV's soundtrack that they hired a private investigator to fly to Orem, Utah and track down the lead singer Sean Delaney's surviving relatives (he died in 2003) to secure the rights of the song.

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