The Backstreet Boys from Baghdad

You'd better believe it. The following excerpt from an article published in the online British newspaper the Telegraph in April, 2006, illustrates just one difficulty of being a boy band from Iraq:

They scraped together the money to record a single, but "the only radio station that would play Western songs was run by Saddam's son Uday", explains Art Hartounian, who plays keyboards and sings. "They refused to play our song unless we made a song for Saddam's birthday. You faced such things at that time."

Oh yes. And there's more to be found here on the Telegraph website. Quit playing games with my heart, you strapping young hotties from Saddam-land.