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"Kaiser Chiefs singer Ricky Wilson has claimed that his band were &amp;quot;threatened&amp;quot; when they tried to pull out of a collaboration with Girls Aloud. The band appeared on ITV special The Girls Aloud Party  in 2008 and performed a mashup of their single &amp;#039;Never Miss A Beat&amp;#039; and the girl group&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Sound Of The Underground&amp;#039;. Wilson told The Guardian that he did not try to back out of the show because he thought he was superior to a manufactured pop group. &amp;quot;These [Crunchie biscuits] were manufactured and I think they&amp;#039;re great. Much better than if I tried to make them myself,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;By the same token, it felt like the wrong thing at the wrong time. We tried to pull out, but we were basically... threatened. That&amp;#039;s all I can say about that right now.&amp;quot; Wilson added: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s like that clip of Morrissey and Johnny Marr doing Saturday morning kids&amp;#039; TV on the top deck of a bus, surrounded by children. The presenter says, &amp;#039;Where are we going?&amp;#039; and Morrissey says, &amp;#039;Around the bend&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Kaiser Chiefs today announced the unconventional release of their third album The Future Is Medieval. Watch Kaiser Chiefs and Girls Aloud play &amp;#039;Never Miss A Beat&amp;#039;/&amp;#039;Sound Of The Underground&amp;#039; live below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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