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had asked Roger to sing on back in 1981, re-recorded by the
Brighton producers Dopegrinders, and using the original stems donated by Mick Jones. The EP features new tracks by Roger, Ranking Junior and Hugh Harris as well as a re-working of "Muscle Ska", co-written by Roger and
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Kingdom and United States. The band had just finished recording an album and Roger had written his autobiography,
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