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TIL after the band The Sisters of Mercy split up, singer Andrew Eldritch heard his ex-bandmates were starting a new band called The Sisterhood. Eldritch secured legal rights to the name, and released a critically panned single the same day his ex-bandmates played their debut show. Both bands failed.

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